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From: tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill Tomczak)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Contact Lens Horror Stories
Message-ID: <545@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 15:54:57 EST
Article-I.D.: harvard.545
Posted: Sun Dec  8 15:54:57 1985
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Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
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Keywords: Grossness and bad taste

In article <554@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes:
>
>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.
>... 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,

Yes, I will count myself among the disturbed....

I'm not sure I believe either of these stories (I used to wear hard
lenses a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...) as I never received
the tiny plumber's tool for removing lenses, nor even heard of such a
thing the whole time I wore hard lenses.  The second story sounds more
plausible if hard to believe.  Any doctors out there care to verify
whether the body would react that way?  (skin growing over a 'lost'
contact lens in the corner of the eye).  If it DID happen I hope that
eye doctor was sued out of ever practicing eye-doctoring again (at
least until after his death, anyway :-)).

The closest thing to a horror story I have is, I think common to many
wearers of hard contact lenses.  Even though we were told not to do it,
many of us would secretly confess to each other that, in a pinch, we
would stick the lenses in our mouth to properly moisten them before
putting back in our eyes (or was it to 'clean' any errant dust or
garbage off them?  I forget).  Once, during my Anthropology class in
high school, I was busy 'cleaning' one of my lenses this way and
accidentally swallowed it.  I didn't feel any ill effects subsequently
though.  For all I know, it's still in there clinging to the wall of
one of my intestines (maybe with intestine lining grown over it!  God!
who started this discussion anyway??).....

bill tomczak@harvard.{HARVARD.EDU, UUCP}