Final Thought

While I'd never get a tattoo or have anything pierced, I think my (admittedly disturbing) interest in attempting to understand why people go through the oddest kinds of body modification - subdermal implants, genital subincision, elective amputation, the....shaping of random body parts - made going through with the chalazion operation an easy decision.  Even though it was actively bothering me, especially in bright sunshine (and a colleague understood because he still has the remnants of one from nearly two months ago that took three weeks before it even began to clear up), I have yet to speak to anyone who said that they would allow their eyelid to be sliced.  In fact, most people went as far as to say that I was brave to undergo this routine procedure when I was on a high and couldn't wait to get it done all day.

I honestly wonder what this means for how I really feel about cosmetic surgery and modifications.