US doctor removes 23 contact lenses stuck in eye like ‘stack of pancakes’

A California eye doctor has said an elderly patient who came in complaining of blurry vision ended up having 23 disposable contact lenses in her eye.

“To this day, she herself does not understand how it took place,” Dr Katerina Kurteeva, a Newport Beach ophthalmologist,

. “She’s still baffled by it all.”

Photographs and a video of a cascade of contact lenses being removed from a woman’s eye have since…