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27 contacts found in woman's eye during surgery
Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:54 pm
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I wore contacts for the majority of my life and have no idea how this could happen.
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According to the BMJ, the case itself occurred back in November, when a 67-year-old woman went to the doctor for a “routine” eye surgery, Rupal Morjaria wrote. When the surgery began, however, Morjaria and her fellow doctors extracted a “blue mass” of 17 contacts, all stuck together, according to Optometry Today. Later, the doctors found another chunk of 10 contacts, bringing the total to 27 contacts in one eye. Read more here: LINK
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According to OT, the patient had been wearing monthly disposable contacts for 35 years but did not regularly go to the eye doctor and had no idea that many contacts were in her eye. Morjaria said the patient had credited her discomfort to old age and dry eyes. Read more here: LINK
I wore contacts for the majority of my life and have no idea how this could happen.
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Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:55 pm to High C
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I wore contacts for the majority of my life and have no idea how this could happen.
Life, uh, finds a way...
Posted on 7/16/17 at 4:59 pm to High C
that is an individual who cannot dependably take care of herself....
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:01 pm to High C
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27 contacts in one eye.
Was she a cyclops?
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:01 pm to High C
I don't know many eye doctors that will write a Rx over a year old without an exam.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:14 pm to High C
Ummm...the ophthalmologist didn't notice this until surgery?
Did he not see this with the slit-lamp in the pre-surgical exam and consult?...or see a faulty IOP test?
Did he not see this with the slit-lamp in the pre-surgical exam and consult?...or see a faulty IOP test?
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:14 pm to Charlie Arglist
This was in Britain. I don't know how their laws line up with ours on something like this.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:22 pm to High C
Well, I'd like a list of all the physicians she saw leading up to the surgery. Because their skills at routine patient exam is below dumb. How could a patient make it all the way to surgery without this being noticed?
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:27 pm to High C
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have no idea how this could happen.
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woman
There you go.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:31 pm to OysterPoBoy
Never ignore the obvious answer. Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:34 pm to High C
Unbelievable.. I accidentally put two in one time and could immediately tell.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:39 pm to High C
Eye stuff makes me cringe and I've had PRK eye surgery.
27 contacts, good Lord.
27 contacts, good Lord.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 5:42 pm to High C
I don't even understand how this is possible. So she just put in new contacts on top of old contacts? How could she not know that she hadn't removed her old contacts? And it happened 20 something times? How the frick did she not get an infection? You have to almost literally be retarded to have this happen. In fact, I would think even retarded people have enough cognitive ability to not do this.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 6:00 pm to High C
There is so much information missing from this story. Article says she went in for cataract surgery. No one performs cataract surgery in the developed world without a preop exam and measurements to calculate the power of the replacement intraocular lens. Even if she went to a shady surgeon who didn't do a preop exam, there's no way she could have had accurate measurements for her intraocular lens with a mass of 27 contacts on her eye.
I've heard of people doing stupid things. Even had a lady burn her cornea once because she was trying to curl her eyelashes with a curling iron. But, I really don't see how someone could be this stupid.
I've heard of people doing stupid things. Even had a lady burn her cornea once because she was trying to curl her eyelashes with a curling iron. But, I really don't see how someone could be this stupid.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 6:27 pm to medtiger
Seemed to be a credible site. Even cited an article in the British Medical Journal.
Posted on 7/16/17 at 6:32 pm to High C
I have accidentally fallen asleep with my contacts in countless times. When I wake up, the contacts are sometimes no longer there. Or at least one isn't.
Haven't done that in a while, but in my twenties it happened more than a handful of times
Haven't done that in a while, but in my twenties it happened more than a handful of times
Posted on 7/16/17 at 6:46 pm to CorkSoaker
Every time I fell asleep in mine, they felt like they were glued to my eyes when I woke up.
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