这位女士的隐形眼镜竟然在眼内藏了28年

A 42-year-old woman recently had just about every contacts-wearer's nightmare scenario come true: Doctors found a contact lens that had been stuck in her eye. Except her nightmare is even worse than you've probably ever imagined. That contact went unnoticed in her eye for 28 years.

近来，一位42岁的女性历经了每一位戴隐形眼镜的人士都避之不及的噩梦--医生发现她的眼内藏有一枚镜片。但这场噩梦可能比你以为的还要糟糕--镜片居然在她的眼内藏了28年，她竟一点都没察觉。

Yep, you read that right. Her ophthalmologists detail the case in an article published Friday in BMJ Case Reports. The woman had been experience swelling and drooping of her left upper eyelid for about six months and was referred to an eye doctor after seeing a general practitioner. The case report authors write that an MRI revealed a small cyst, which was then surgically removed.

是的，你没看错。她的眼科医生于周五在《英国医学杂志案例报告》上发表了一篇文章，详细解释了这件事。六个月来，这位女士的左上眼睑有点肿胀、下垂，看完全科医生后，被转诊去了眼科室。案例报告的作者写道，通过磁共振成像，我们发现了小的囊肿，而后通过手术将囊肿移除。

That's when things got really interesting. "On removal, the cyst ruptured and a hard contact lens was extracted. The foreign body was extremely fragile on removal and handling. It was later confirmed that this was an RGP lens," the authors write. RGP stands for rigid gas permeable contacts, meaning the contacts are hard but allow oxygen to reach the surface of the eye.

这时候，事情开始变得有意思了。"在移除过程中，囊肿破裂，我们发现了一片隐形眼镜镜片。在移除和处理的过程当中，这片异物变得非常脆弱。而后，我们确定这是硬性透氧性角膜接触镜镜片，"作者写道。RGP的中文含义是硬性透氧性角膜接触镜，也就是镜片很硬，但却允许氧气到达眼球表面。

If finding a long-lost contact in your eye isn't alarming enough, the story then takes another dramatic turn: This woman had not worn this type of lens since she was a teenager. "On further questioning, the patient's mother recalled that the patient had a history of blunt trauma to the upper left eyelid as a child. The patient was hit in the left eye with a shuttle cock while playing badminton at the age of 14," the authors write.

如果在眼睛中发现丢失已久的镜片还不算爆炸性新闻，那这样一个戏剧性的变化算不算呢?自十几岁以来，这位女士就没有戴过这种眼镜了。"在进一步的问询过程中，患者的母亲想起来了，小时候，患者的左上眼睑受过外伤。14岁的时候，她在打羽毛球，而后左眼被击中。"

Apparently, she had been wearing an RGP lens back then-and never found it. With no symptoms at the time, she and her family figured it had fallen out and gotten lost, as contacts sometimes do.

显然，她那个时候就戴着硬性透氧性角膜接触镜--却再也没找到过。当时没呈现任何症状，她和她的家人还以为镜片掉下来丢了呢，因为有时候隐形眼镜的确会出现这种情况。

Turns out, it was still with her after all that time. "The patient never wore RGP lenses following this incident. We can infer that the RGP lens migrated into the patient's left upper eyelid at the time of trauma and had been in situ for the last 28 years," the authors conclude. Yikes.

事实证明，一直以来，眼镜都藏在她的眼睛里。"这件事之后，病人就再也没有戴过硬性透氧性角膜接触镜了。所以我们推断这个镜片在她被羽毛球打伤的时候移到了她的左眼睑，28年来，一直都藏在这个地方，"作者总结道。着实令人惊讶!