HOW annoying is it when you lose something and it turns up in the most unlikely of places?
How on earth did it get there?
And anybody who wears contact lenses may tell you the pesky things are extremely precarious to handle and gosh darn it, for the clumsy ones, they're always going missing.
A woman in China who had misplaced quite a few of her contact lenses in recent times was shocked when doctors found five of them tucked behind her left eyeball.
The 33-year-old, who suffers from hemifacial atrophy, was in the middle of plastic surgery to correct the volume behind her eye and restore facial symmetry when the discovery was made.
Doctors said it was the first time they had seen multiple contact lenses neatly concealed inside a person's conjunctiva.
"If they [the contact lenses] had persisted for a long time, the risk of side effects such as corneal wounds and microbial infections would have increased," doctors said.
It turned out the woman's atrophy was creating a cavity which her contact lenses were disappearing into.
The surgery involved doctors injecting autologous fat grafting to reinflate her eye socket, which pushed the missing contact lenses back out.
Thankfully, no side effects or longer-term problems were created by the erstwhile lenses and her eye recovered in full.
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