LOS ANGELES — Dr. Katerina Kurteeva said she had never seen anything like it before.
Kurteeva, an ophthalmologist with California Eye Associates in Newport Beach, said a patient came into her office complaining of eye pain and blurred vision. She ran through the typical list of diagnoses: a scratched cornea, some type of infection or even lodged debris.
What she found were 23 contact lenses lodged inside the woman's right eye.