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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Hard Contact Lens Horror Stories
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 15:54:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 15:54:57 1985
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Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
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When I first got my contacts (the extended wear soft lenses), a good
friend of mine shared with me a few horror stories from his experience
with contacts. Well, he used to be a good friend. :-) The stories 
really didn't bother me, though, because they had to do with hard 
contacts. I am of the sinister type that loves such morbid discussions,
and so I thought I would post a couple of horror stories to the net,
in case there are other demented folk who like sick stories like these,
or who have some horror stories of their own to share. DISCLAIMER: Not
everyone with hard contacts has these chilling experiences, and this
posting is not meant to imply any such thing. It is submitted purely for
its morbid content, without any redeeming social value at all.

*** WARNING! SKIP THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE!   HIT 'N' KEY NOW! ***

HORROR STORY #1
    My friend showed me a little tool the doctor gave him when he got
his hard contacts. It looked like a tiny plumber's helper. He said it
was to use when your contacts were on too tight and wouldn't come off.
Just stick this thing in your eye, and Presto! pulls the little sucker
right off! Just be careful, he said, to use it ONLY when you know for
certain there is a contact lens in your eye, or it would stick to your
eyeball and you would have a miserable time getting it unstuck.

HORROR STORY #2
    My friend swears this is true. A guy he knew lost his hard contact
one day, and looked all over for it to no avail. He did have insurance,
so he went to the doctor and got another one.
    Within a few days his eye was constantly red, and he could barely
keep it open. He went to the doctor to find out what was wrong with
the lens. The doctor pulled out the lens (no doubt with the little
torture device mentioned above), examined it, and could find nothing
wrong with it. He prescribed another lens, though, just to be sure.
    The eye kept getting worse, and the poor fellow couldn't keep the
lens in at all eventually. But even after he had gone without a lens
in his eye, it still was red all the time and hurt badly.
    He went back to the doctor, who examined his eye very closely. This
time the doctor found the problem. On the bottom of the eyeball was the
old contact lens the man thought he lost! It had just slipped 
underneath the eyeball and wedged there between the eye and the socket.
By now skin had grown around the lens, and it had to be surgically
removed.

AUUUUUUUUUGH! *shiver* I warned you.

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Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)