Welches wrote:
> "Stephanie" <haaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:IaGdnR2FhvnplBvVnZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> My 4yo daughter has very shortened eyelashes. My MIL first noticed
>> it. My MIL and FIL then proceeded to question (maybe grill?) her
>> about it. She told them a bunch of stuff, none of it sounds terribly
>> real. MIL and FIL are convinced that they were cut. (That is scary
>> to me that someone might have cut her eyelashes. But it is hard for
>> me to imagine who would have the op****tinuty to do such a thing.) I
>> wonder if she pulled them out? She has her fingers on her eyes all
>> the time, kinda like a tick. She does pinch them.
>>
>> She tells me that she has no recollection of anyone cutting her
>> eyelashes. I wonder if the in-laws questions were so leading as to
>> give her things to say to placate them.
>>
>> Worry? Not worry? My Mom is in the don't worry camp. But if anyone
>> has put scissors near her eyes, well that alarms the snot out of me.
>>
>> Stephanie
>>
> You should be able to tell if they were cut, I'd have thought. A
> non-cut eyelash gets thinner towards the end.
> It sounds unlikely to me that both sets of eyelashes were cut, if one
> side is markedly shorter than the other then it would seem more
> likely. Is it possible that her eyelashes just are short? Are they
> definitely shorter than usual.
They are definitely shorter than usual on one side only. They make sort of
a
crescent shape, long on the outside and short on the inside.
> I remember going through a phase of pulling at my eylashes. I did it
> because my eye was sore and I kept thinking I had an eyelash in it,
> and I did pull quite a few out. It turned out I had a stye inside the
> eyelid. Debbie


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