A Lift in a Drop: Eyelid-Lifting Drop Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe prescription eyelid-lifting drops for a drooping upper lid. Writers came to them after twenty years of rigid contact lenses, Botox in the forehead, cataract surgery, heavy lash extensions, shingles near the eye, migraine treatment, eyelid surgery that went wrong or age, often because a student, a spouse or a teenage daughter pointed it out. They include a trucker who had lost the top of his vision, a dentist with neck pain from tilting her head, a blackjack dealer, a lawyer told he looked sleepy in court, a pastor on a streamed service, a bush pilot checking with his medical examiner, an actor who uses them on audition days and a woman of eighty-three steadying her elbow. They write from Columbus to Honolulu. Accounts cover insurance denials, prescriptions online without an eye exam, checking with a heart doctor, timing drops around a night shift, keeping vials from children and pets, and tape or a crutch on glasses instead. Several stopped over redness, dryness, blurring, cost or a lift too small to matter; others learned their problem was skin rather than muscle, or that their eyes were normal. One droop that worsened through the day proved to be a different condition, and one sudden droop with double vision meant a trip to the emergency department.

Who it's for

For anyone told they look tired because of a drooping lid, anyone deciding whether prescription drops suit their eyes, and the family members who spot the droop in photographs first.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 280 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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