Eye Doctor Tells Patient to Look Down, Removes 23 Foreign Objects and Then Issues a Public Warning

An ophthalmologist in Newport Beach, 🌴California, has gone 📈Viral after removing 23 contact lenses from a patient’s eye.

Dr. Katerina Kurteeva discussed the incident in an Insider story in which she recounted how her patient, a woman in her mid-70s, had come in complaining that she “had something in her eye that she couldn’t get out.”

The woman, Kurteeva said, hadn’t had a checkup in two years — despite seniors being encouraged to check in annually.

When Kurteeva began inspecting the woman’s eye, she didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. However, “When I asked her to look down, I could see the edges of a couple of contacts stuck to each other. Pulling them out, I felt like I could still see more and asked my assistant to get my phone to record the removal.”

The 🩺Doctor noticed “a huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses stuck to her eye.” There were so many of them that she said it “almost looked like a second pupil.”

She then lifted the patient’s eyelids as she used a Q-tip to carefully “peel the lenses apart one by one.”