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An email I got today.
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I can say that when my sister was a teenager, she once had her contact slide around to the side of her eye. She couldn't get it out, no matter how hard she tried. Finally went to the optometrist who carefully examined her and concluded the reason she couldn't get it out was because it wasn't in there, and all the irritation and discomfort were from her trying to get something that wasn't there. So that one, at least, is plausible.
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But what isn't possible is this part:
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I Dr. Dean Edell's book, Eat, Drink and Be Merry, he tells of a doctor or professor who tried to get a plaster cast of a volunteer's vagina (purely for research purposes, you understand). Once the plaster hardened, he couldn't remove it, and had to break it into bits to get it out.
I hope that the volunteer was well paid. ETA: How does snopes say it? "True, but completely different!"? |
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I took it out and suffered no ill effects, but I do wonder what might have happened had I gone to a doctor to complain when it wasn't visible. (And contacts are visible, even to the untrained person. Try looking closely at a contact-wearer sometime--you'll see a tiny ring around the iris.) |
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My great aunt gained a lot of weight in the last third of her life and would constantly joke about finding her glasses between her breasts when she couldn't find them(because after reading in bed one night she looked everywhere for them only to have it pointed out to her that she had them there). She claimed that sensation decreased as she grew bigger, this could be possible but her skin was also much older and that could have been a cause.
Besides, you'd think I were a garbage collector(or stripper) judging by the number of times that someone pointed out that I had something stuck to me, including change, when getting up from sitting on the ground(bad habit), I don't even notice and I'm not that heavy... |
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I once got my contact folded up and lost under my eyelid somewhere by having my eye very slightly open as I was hit in the face by an intense wave of water. I thought it was washed out, which was really upsetting because at that time they cost something like $70 each, I had to pay for them myself (and at 13 years old, I didn't have a lot of money), and I was away at camp for the week and thought I would be doomed to spend the rest of the hot week in glasses (heat was a major reason I got contacts in the first place). After a bit of me freaking out, it became apparent to me there was something way up under my eyelid, and I was able to work it down by looking up and down several times.
Worst time for anything stuck up in my eye was the time I got a full length hair from my head stuck in there somehow when I put on my contacts. I felt something, but I looked all around, and couldn't see anything. Hours later, I finally found the end had drifted down to the corner of my eye, and I pulled the whole length out. My eye had done a pretty good job of trying to "pearlize" it in the meantime. |
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I would have thought somebody looking closely at your eye as you moved it around would be able to see a bit better than you yourself can see your eyes in a mirror...
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