A California doctor has reported that an elderly patient, who initially sought help due to experiencing blurred vision, was found to have a total of 23 disposable contact lenses lodged in her eye.
βTo this day, she herself does not understand how it took place,β Dr. Katerina Kurteeva, a Newport Beach ophthalmologist, told a local TV news channel. βSheβs still baffled by it all.β
Images and a video capturing the extraction of a series of contact lenses from a womanβs eye have gone viral on Kurteevaβs Instagram account, sparking a wave of sensational news coverage.