23 contact lenses found stuck in 70-yr-old woman's eye: US ophthalmologist

An elderly woman who thought there was "something in her eye" actually had 23 daily disposable contact lenses lodged under her eyelid, according to her ophthalmologist

An elderly woman who complained of impaired vision and a feeling of "something in her eye" in California was found with 23 disposable contact lenses stuck under her eyelid, Dr. Katerina Kurteeva of California Eye Associates in Newport Beach, California, told TODAY. 

Dr Kurteeva said she was shocked to discover the clump of contacts and added that all the contact lenses were hidden underneath the upper lid in a pancake stack. "To this day, the patient herself does not understand how it took place. She is still baffled by it all," she said.

The patient, who is in her 70s,