So last week, I went to a primary care appointment (thank you, indigent care!). This doctor, who has never met me or seen me in photos, picked up on a weirdy fascinating symptom I never knew I had. I didn't even know it was a thing!

So he walks in, and I start with the whole " I have Ehlers Danlos syndrome" thing as usual. He wasnt sitting particularly close to me, nor was he looking into my eyes particularly closely at this point.

Within seconds, he looked at my eyes from where he was standing and plainly said, "You have blue sclera." That statement caught me so off guard that I couldn't process it at first. All I managed to squeak out was, "Blue?"

"Yep," he said. So at that point, he shined his light into my eyes and had me look left and right. Sure enough, they're tinged blue. I'm flabbergasted. My friend, who was in the appointment with me, took a look too. And sure enough, they're blue!The whites of my eyes are blue!

I'm almost 36 years old, and I never noticed this. Occasionally, I passively note that my sclera aren't as white as other people's, but I just figured it's because I'm always tired. It just blows my mind!

People with EDS sometimes have blue sclera, because it thins the eye tissue, and more light passes through. That's exactly why we can't have LASIK.

Mind: "Ka-boom."

Edit: "squeak," not "squeal."