I probably would have worn them until what happened happened.

I just talked to my mother, she said I didn't take them out for over a week, not just a couple days. My memory of before is not nearly as clear as what happened after.
That's basically what happened to me, sharky, it just happened at an accelerated rate, I guess because of the smoke, though it could have been different contacts or something else that caused it to happen so fast. Luckily I didn't suffer any loss of eyesight, but my eyes became way more sensitive after it happened. I'm not sure if it's because of some physiological effect the infection had on my eyes or a psychological repercussion of the ordeal.