I mostly use the same "non-contact lenses" as you but have also used contact lenses for 35 years and not needed to have an eye removed. Deliberately putting th

I mostly use the same "non-contact lenses" as you but have also used contact lenses for 35 years and not needed to have an eye removed. Deliberately putting things in your eye does have one advantage, you can easily fish out any bits of grit that get in there by accident.