AN anguished wife yesterday became the second person to tell how an infection from a contact lens ate away her eye.
June Scott, 62, was wearing her disposable lenses at her Spanish holiday home last October when her left eyeball began burning.
She spent three weeks in hospital, but despite three ops and several eight-hour sessions to flush out the infection, surgeons were finally forced to cut away her cornea.
News of her ordeal emerged just days after Essex teaching assistant Jacqui Stone, 42, told in The Sun how she lost her eye to the same infection caught from a lens.
Heartbroken June, of Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, is now blind in the eye and must fly back to have a false one fitted.
The retired print worker, who bought her contacts from Boots, said: “The doctors said they’d never seen anything like it. The pain was so awful, it was like something was eating at my eye.”
June said she bought the lenses — made by an unnamed UK company — before travelling to Spain, where she spends the winter months with husband William, 62.
She is considering legal action against the manufacturer.
Docs in Alicante diagnosed a fungal infection known as Fusarium.
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