Doctor Extracts 23 Contact Lenses from Patient's Eye 👁️

A doctor in California has removed a total of 23 contact lenses from a "forgetful" patient’s eye, and shared footage of the bizarre procedure.

“A rare occasion in my practice - I got to deliver 23 contact lenses yesterday from one patient’s eye in my clinic,” Katerina Kurteeva said, adding the lenses were “essentially glued together after sitting under the eyelid for a month.”

“It almost looked like a second pupil. I gently started using a Q-tip to peel the lenses apart one by one, like you would deal a deck of cards,” she told Insider.

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