Scotch Tape
Scotch tape is the treatment of choice for dropping lids of unknown etiology when the patient refuses surgery.
From The House of God
The Next LOL in NAD was seventy-five, Jewish, and came in with her upper eyelids Scotch-taped to her forehead. Reading her old chart, I found out that this was a case of "drooping lids of unknown etiology and that her previous Clinic tern had TURFED her to Ophthalmology, where the resident had told her to "tape them up or I operate" and she'd chosen the tape and had been TURFED back to Medicine. This was a BOUNCE.
"Oh, I love meeting all you nice young doctors," she said."
"How long have you had this tape on your lids?"
"Eight years. How much longer do I have to wear it?"
"What happens when you take it off?"
"My eyelids fall down."
I wrote her a prescription for more tape.
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