Ophthalmologist Removes 23 Contact Lenses From a Woman's Eye

video out of Newport Beach shows an ophthalmologist removing 23 contact lenses from the eye of an elderly woman.

Dr. Katerina Kurteeva shared the video on social media of the patient who came in saying she was feeling a pain developing in her eyes and her vision was turning blurry.

The patient, who is in her mid-70s, had started forgetting if she had removed her daily wear contact lenses.

Dr. Kurteeva ruled out debris or a scratch on the patient's cornea. She used another medical device - known as an eyelid speculum - to further examine the eye. This device enables the doctor to hold open the patient's eyelids at the same time.

That's when she spotted the edges of a dark purple blob of contact lenses in the deep pockets of the patient's eyelid.