At my eye doctor yesterday, they took their annual photo of my eyeballs. They have a cool machine that you stare into, and it's high-tech enough to focus its camera lens to aim through your pupil to take a picture of the inside to make sure things are ok. While the pictures are kinda neat (surprisingly, not creepy or gross), nothing on mine has changed over the years...which is a good thing.
So when the doctor paused and said, "Do you see that little white dot right there? How it looks like a camera error?" and I saw it. And it was on all the different pictures over the years. I started to look alarmed and he said, "That's a freckle. Well, a reverse freckle. See how on your arms you have brown freckles and what look like white freckles? Those are reverse freckles, where you've got areas of low melanin. And the same pigments that make you all freckled on your arms are really on all of you. Even your eyes have freckles."
So all those spots I thought were from chicken pox scars? Not necessarily! And it just proves what the super-drunk guy years ago said to me, "Hey..... I bet you have freckles ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL over your body!" Bodies are cool.
An Erinku:
Reverse freckles
would be
an awesome band name
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