You Don’t Look Odd
Today was my yearly checkup with the head of Ophthalmic Neurology at our local hospital. He did my eye surgery a couple of years ago. Sounds like a way bigger deal than it was. Basically he removed the puffy fat beneath my eyes that were there because my stupid thyroid is just a big baby and has mood swings. Sometimes it’s too active and then sometimes it doesn’t want to do anything at all. Bitch!
Another one of the lovely side effects of thyroid problems and specifically Graves disease is that it can cause your eyes to bulge out of the sockets.
So I’m no Marti Feldman, but it does bother me. Today the illustrious doctor mentioned that they could do surgery to help correct it. The least invasive would involve them going in from the outside corners of each eye and removesome of the bone around my eye sockets. All together now..ewwwwwww. Or they can go through my sinuses and remove even more bone from my eye sockets but that may cause numbness in my upper lip. Also, ewwwwww. Then the illustrious doctor said “Well, it’s not like you look odd.” Odd?! Odd?! Just a reminder that even illustrious male doctors are still men and sometimes men just say the wrong thing.
Stumble it!
Elizabeth Channel
What a comment! No way he said that!!!
Anne
I have a friend who has the same situation. I think it depends on how much it bothers you. I think you look great (from the photos I have seen) but it totally depends on your feelings about it. Obviously “odd” was a poor choice of vocabulary.
Mrsbear
Okay, the doctor is an idiot. That’s like telling someone they don’t look fat, even if they didn’t ask. Don’t shave your eye socket bones, it sounds horrid. As long as your eye balls aren’t physically falling out of your head, don’t worry about it.
Cassie
Stupid doctors. I wouldn’t do that surgery. It sounds painful and risky.