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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
You and your eyelids I haven't been a very responsible blogger recently. The reason: I've been sick for two weeks. An unpleasant flu that makes me sleep as much as the average koala (22 hours a day). Since I couldn't muster the energy to do much else, I searched for "diseases" in the notes I took while reading the encyclopedia. This was probably a bad idea. It just reminded me of the alarming number of things that can go wrong with the human body. Like eyelids. I could write an entire book on the various and horrible eyelid malfunctions. A sampling: Entropion - the turning in of the border of the eyelid. Ectropion - the sagging of the lower eyelid Albrecht von Grafe - the discovere of "Grafe's sign," a disease in which the upper eyelid fails to follow the eyeball when looking downard. Keratitis - when the eyelids are unable to close. Also called 'hare eyes' after the ancient belief that rabbits don't close their eyes. Okay, so it wouldn’t be a very interesting book. But I'll tell you this: I will never take my smoothly functioning eyelids for granted again. In other news, we got a Dr. Seuss book which featured a weird elephant-like animal called a "Blogg." |
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5 Comments:
Thanks for that. Now I am at work, overly conscious about my blinking and feeling like my eyelid control could go at any moment.
My wife's been battling a recurring sty(sp?) for the past week. This will make her feel so much better.
Good. I will go to bed, cold in full swing, heavy eyelids, and think of this post. Thanks. :-)
Fortunately I'm a lizard, and have no eyelids.
Splendid.
whassup
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