Ow! My Eyes!
One day not too long ago, I looked in the mirror and there was something weird happening on my left eyelid. I didn't worry too much, because as I have aged, I have discovered that there are many, many weird things that start happening with my body, so I like to have a wait and see approach. After a couple of days, the thing looked a bit like a blister, wasn't painful but didn't look right. Then I got a really good look at it with a magnification mirror. Turns out it was an eyelash that decided to grow upwards and into my eyelid instead of outward. What the hell? Why do our bodies do such outlandish things at this age? I have never had anything remotely like that happen to me ever before. I half-heartedly attempted to try and pluck it out of the skin with my own tweezers, but the angle was terrible, and I could just picture myself gouging my eyeball out or something. Which is the last thing I need. Asking my husband to do it was nowhere on the option list, he has very l...