"Stephanie" <haaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Welches wrote:
>> "Stephanie" <haaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> 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.
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> 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.
>
Have you asked her if she's pulled any out? That does sound like she might
have been pulling them out.
Debbie
>> 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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