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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Athletic club hopes to reunite prosthetic eye with its owner

A customer was walking out of the Memorial Athletic Club in Houston, Texas, recently when something on the ground caught his eye. The man who found it turned it in to lost and found at Memorial Athletic Club, thinking someone was missing a ring or necklace. "Didn't even look to see what it was.
"It was in a jewellery case, you know, a little box, and it made a noise, and he just assumed there was something in there," said Joseph Gabriel with the Memorial Athletic Club. When Gabriel opened the box, he found an artificial eye. The ocular prosthesis is made out of acrylic, hand-painted and custom fitted.
Dr. Michael Yen, opthamologist at Baylor College of Medicine says a patient wouldn't normally take out the prosthesis unless it's new and the patient is still getting used to how it feels. Somehow this one ended up in the parking lot, and it's not cheap. "The custom, hand-painted ones can run several thousand dollars," Yen said.
The athletic club staff are now trying to find the owner. "It's apparently very valuable and probably of great importance to the person who owns it," Gabriel said. Employees are keeping the eye safe until its owner claims it. If you or someone you know is missing an artificial eye, contact the Memorial Athletic Club.
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