The 25-year-old said that on the fateful day, she had put her contacts in to go to work but noticed that there was a different sensation this time around.

“I had put my contacts in to go to work and felt a bursting sensation in my left eye but didn’t think too much of it because it wasn’t painful, it was just kind of there,” said Smith.

Smith said that what started out something seemingly not a big deal later became a problem.’When I got back home, I took out my contact lenses, and my eye was noticeably red, but it wasn’t hurting or anything at that point. The next day I woke up, and my eye was redder, and by that night, it was starting to hurt more, and that’s when I started to become worried,’ said Smith.

According to Smith, a dental office worker, she went to the eye doctor the next day, and although she was given eyedrops, that didn’t help.

“I went back to the eye doctor, and he was looking at my eye through a microscope, and his exact words were “what the hell is that?” and that just really scared me,” said Smith.

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