I recently went to the doctor's to get this thing in the corner of my eye check out. It looked like a little whitehead, but wasn't. When I started poking around it, it looked like a tiny grain of rice was stuck under my skin. I would push it around with the tip of a push pin (yes, I know, very smart, especially around my eye). It didn't bother me until recently when it started to get bigger. I finally made an appointment to get it checked out and to also establish myself with a new primary care physician (the 5th in as many years - that's a whole nother story).
It turns out it was milia and the doctor ended up slicing open the patch of skin and squeezing the rice grain out - just like a zit. He wasn't able to get it all out, but got enough that it made a considerable difference. I ended up being able to squeeze the rest of it out this week at work.
The point of this post is that something so small has such a profound effect on how I see myself. I'd been looking at my face with this milia on it for at least a year. It was always something that my eye zoomed in on. Bam! Whitehead right there. Now when I look in the mirror, my eyes still automatically go over that area, but now it finds nothing. It's just weird not to see it anymore. I don't think it added or detracted from how I look to others, but it's a big subtle difference to me (if that makes any sense at all).
I still take the random break to pull out my pocket mirror and look at my eye to make sure that it's really gone.
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