23 contact lenses extracted from a patient's eye
An ophthalmologist in California was shocked when she found in a patient's eye 23 contact lenses that the patient said she had completely forgotten about.
Katrina Corteva, an ophthalmologist from Newport Beach, California, posted a video on Instagram carefully removing contact lenses from the patient's eye.
The doctor quoted the patient, an elderly woman, as saying that she forgot the lenses in her eye for several months, and maybe even years.
The doctor filmed the process of removing the lenses from the patient's eye, and showed the video on her Instagram page, and wrote, "I carefully separated all the contact lenses and counted a total of 23 of them.
I had to use a very delicate surgical instrument, a jewelry tweezer, to separate the contact lenses.”
“The lenses have been stuck under the eyelid for a month (or more).”
The doctor said, according to the "Odd City" website, that some lenses turn green because of the passage of a long time in the eye.
The video went viral a few days ago, leaving millions confused as to how someone could simply forget that many contact lenses are in their eye.
Kotiva explained that her patient always forgot that she wore contact lenses when she went to bed, and puts a new one every morning.
A few years ago, 27 huge contact lenses were removed from the eye of a 67-year-old woman from the UK who had also forgotten them in her eye for 35 years.
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