Woman's Contact Lens Was Stuck In Her Eyelid for 28 Years The contact lens was embedded in the woman's eyelid After the accident, the contact was nowhere to be found and both she and her family assumed it had fallen out. 28 years later, the woman goes to the eye doctor because her eye has begun to swell and ache. The doctor notices that her eyelid droops a bit, but the woman was used to having a heavy eyelid. An MRI scan revealed
a lump had formed
under her eyelid. When surgeons went in to remove it, Case report, via Gizmodo Extraordinarily, the woman's eyesight was unaffected by the entire experience.