article_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod Lucy Garrod had been wearing contact lenses since Lucy Garrod was 15 with no problems, but woke up one day with an itchy and irritable right eye.
article_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod Lucy Garrod had worn contact lenses for 12 years with no problem, but woke up one morning feeling as though her eye was 'the size of a golf ball' Miss Garrod feared Lucy Garrod would not be able to carry on with Lucy Garrod photography degree due to going partially blind in one eye.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Garrod, a freelance photographer living in London, said: 'That day I'd put my lenses in late that morning, but by 4pm her eye was aching. '
article_snippet.sent: The next morning Miss Garrod, who is originally from Jersey, looked in the mirror and found her eye was swollen.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Garrod said: 'I'd have to get used to wearing two lenses
article_snippet.sent: Miss Garrod said: 'her right eye was uncomfortable and still watering. '
article_snippet.sent: Miss Garrod wore the hard lenses for the next few years.
article_snippet.sent: However the sight in Miss Garrod right eye was still limited and the hard lenses started to become irritating and uncomfortable.
article_snippet.sent: Miss Garrod Miss Garrod wore glasses as a young girl (pictured) but had worn contact lenses ever since Miss Garrod was 15 with no problems, until Miss Garrod developed the corneal abrasion that left Miss Garrod partially blind .