Eye surgeon discovers that patient's irritated, dry eye is caused by a mass of dozens of lost contact lenses

They cannot, the conjunctiva (the membrane that seals your eyeballs to the inside of your eyelids, the same one that gets red when you have conjunctivitis) prevents things from getting behind your eyeball. The farthest anything can get is about a quarter of the way around. Here are lots of illustrations of the conjunctiva.

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