The thread now running about toenails changing as we age, made me think about ears. Have yours become bigger as you have got older? I thought mine were OK, but seemingly overnight they appear to have grown. Why?
I had always thought my ears were neat and small, and I have never had pierced ears, or worn earrings. But in the last year I am sure my ears have grown. ? Not the lobes, but just the length from top to bottom.
Chewbacca, your post brought back memories of when my mum asked me to pome something through her ears, because the holes had closed up. Ugh! I couldn't do it. Scarred for life now.
I must be odd. I have no idea what my ears looked like before or what they look like now. (Must have a look in the mirror when I get out of bed?). I have always had hair long enough to cover them and I don't use a mirror mutch. Never wanted to punch a hole in my body for decorative purposes so perhaps that explains my lack of observation.
I always look at people´s ears. It seemed to me, as a child, that old people´s ears were huge. Read somewhere that ears keep on growing. Also, there is this business of a wrinkled area just in front of the ears, which to me is a definite sign of aging. I keep applying cream in the hope of preventing this. Can anyone say that it´s worked?
My lobes each have a crease on them. I read once it’s called ‘Frank’s sign’ after a doctor. (Google and be scared). Julius Caesar had them - they are on statues. Bilateral, as mine are. Oh ‘eck ...
Ears and noses carry on growing, don't they? At least I think they do. I'm lucky that mine are quite small, but my nose appears to be wider than it was (to keep up with my plump face)
Just looked at them now. I appear to have been lucky, no sagging wrinkly lobes---that's a bonus I must say I never bother with how the ears look, normally. I wish the face was as smooth as the ear-lobes. They can still hear a pin drop which is the main thing.
My ears are sadly neglected as they are one part of my body that isn’t crumbling with age so I don’t pay them much attention! Unless I count tinnitus which a I’ve had in my left ear for many years.
PS I don't think my ears have either grown or shrunk since my sister pierced them for me in 1967, during a quiet time in A&E when she was a junior doctor.
I don't feel dressed without earrings and have quite a collection of them. If family can't think of anything else to give me, they buy me earrings! Some in better taste than others! I bought a pack of 'butterflies' from Ebay but the hole in every one of them is too small for the wires on all my earrings. Luckily they were cheap. M&S used to sell these, but I haven't seen them recently.