First of all, all the nopes in the entire entire world. I can't use contacts, I have a crazy aversion to anything getting close to my eyes. I realize that this is a weird case, because she did not take them out/clean them for so long..but damn. Apparently the same kind of infection can happen if you do not properly disinfect them between uses?
http://www.medicaldaily.com/contact-...-them-6-months
Technically, the amoeba's ate bacteria on her eye, then burrowed inside, not actually eating her eye.
"The director of ophthalmology at Taipei's Wan Fang Hospital, Wu Jian-Liang said, “Contact lens wearers are a high-risk group that can easily be exposed to eye diseases. A shortage of oxygen can destroy the surface of the epithelial tissue, creating tiny wounds into which the bacteria can easily infect, spreading to the rest of the eye and providing a perfect breeding ground. "
Yeah, no thanks. Also, from that article, the US has such a high percentage of contact lens users, are glasses just more common in other countries?