One of the girls from the GVI's group of Dive Masters here had a terrible incident the other day. She scratched her cornea with a contact lens. At first, it was just a tiny routine injury – her eye got a bit irritated, that's all. But instead taking the contact out and leaving her poor eye along, she kept rubbing it constantly, against all our reasoning. Practically in no time the eye looked completely red and totally unhealthy. All of a sudden, she was in pain, and pretty quickly (in a matter of hours, literally) it turned out that she got some severe infection in. She was hospitalized, because they had to administer various antibiotics on the hour. The next morning she had to be put on an emergency flight to Houston. It turns out that she will have to have the antibiotics treatment for another three months, after which she may or may not need a cornea transplant…
Unfortunately, she did not get a chance to finish the training and get her Dive Master certification. Fortunately, she had a travel insurance.
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