During today's Red Sox game, Jacoby Ellsbury made a sensational catch - then slammed full-speed, face first, into a section of chain-link fence up at the Rogers Centre up in Toronto. He was down on the ground for a while, surrounded by teammates and trainers, one of whom retrieved a soft contact lens from the dirt of the warning track.
The trainer cleaned the lens with a rinsing solution, then tried three times to get the lens back in Jacoby's right eye. Three times it folded up, and goodness knows I've had that happen when trying to insert a contact lens in a patient's eye.
By this time, the fans in attendance were starting to express their impatience, as it had been several minutes (the total time of the delay was nine minutes.) Finally, Jacoby put it in his eye on the first attempt (no surprises here), and he was able to continue playing the game. He also had quite a bruise and a small cut above the eye from the sunglasses he was wearing when he hit the fence.
I guess the moral of the story (and my reason for including it here) is that soft lenses can and do come out of the eye, but generally only under pretty extreme conditions, and to mention that I actually had to fit a larger, tighter lens to a soccer player many years ago because he reported that his lenses tended to go flying when he headed the ball.
Of course, it also reminds me to mention that I have just begun to fit lenses that re-shape the eye to correct vision, and which are worn only while sleeping. They're called Paragon CRT (Corneal Refractive Therapy), and their website is www.paragoncrt.com. (More to follow on these.)
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