Surgeons find 27 contact lenses lodged in woman’s eye

An elderly lady was discovered with having 27 contact lenses stuck on each other in her eye! She had discomfort in her eye that she simply attributed to dry eye and old age, but upon visiting eye specialists this astonishing discovery was made.

The lenses resembled a ‘blueish mass’ and the 67-year-old patient was preparing for her cataract surgery before the discovery. Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee ophthalmologist who dealt with the case at a hospital near Birmingham, told: “None of us have ever seen this before.

It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together. We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.”

Initially, eye specialists discovered 17 lenses, before a further examination revealed another 10 lenses. The patient had been wearing monthly disposable contact lenses for 35 years but did not attend regular appointments.

As a result of the findings, the woman had her operation postponed as the risk of developing inflammation of the interior of the eye was increased.

Wasps invasion

Pest controller Shane Jones filmed his attempt to tackle wasps nests inside the dark loft, and what he saw inside was like a scene from a horror movie!

“The room looked like a scene from Alien,” Shane said. “I’ve seen a few big nests in my time but nothing anywhere near like this.”

There were ten huge nests, the smallest the size of a football and one about a metre tall. Thankfully, most of them were empty, but one was filled with thousands of live wasps.

Shane runs Ridtek Pest Control with his 18-year-old son Reef, who was helping him get the ten nests out of the loft. Shane thinks the wasps must have been living in the house for at least a decade, because every year the queen dies and the new leader builds another nest.

He said: “I said on the video we were going to have to gas them, but we didn’t in the end. My son and I just pulled the nests out. There were thousands of dead wasps. Thousands.”

Published in Dawn, Young World August 5th, 2017