If it's after hours, the on-call physician may suggest you go to the emergency room for an evaluation and removal, especially if you've tried to remove the contact several times or are experiencing eyepain or redness.
And it realized its destination-it's destiny, when the greatest generation rose up from the pain of the Depression, looked an unstoppable Nazi war machine in the eye and said, no more.
It's derived from dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), which was promoted as a pain reliever in the 1960s and 1970s until scientists discovered in animal tests that it caused eye damage in high doses.