Doctors in the U.K. were prepping a woman for routine cataract surgery when they discovered something odd under the woman's right upper eyelid.
A contact lens. In fact, it turned out to be a clump of contact lenses, 17 to be exact, all held together by mucus, according to Live Science. Upon closer inspection, the surgeon then found 10 more lenses, for a total of 27 impacted contacts.
The woman had no complaints of pain or irritation, although she said her eye seemed dry. It seems the patient, who had worn disposable lenses for 35 years, sometimes attempted to remove a lens, but couldn't find it and assumed the lens had fallen out.
Surgeons say failing to remove contact lenses can lead to serious infections, although in this case the patient had no infection. Regular trips to the eye doctor might have uncovered the issue earlier.
