He got bitten by a scorpion.
It's the mark of a future pirate.
It's a tapeworm under his eyelid.
It's a tattoo of a caterpillar.
He got licked by a rabid cat.
So everyone has been asking us what's up with his eye. Most are polite and don't ask but those that can't contain their curiosity ask it straight up. "Dude, what happened to his eye?"
I usually contain my smart-ass answers and tell them the truth. Miles had flies lay eggs inside his eyelid and we have to wait till the maggots eat their way out for the marks to go away...
Actually; Miles got his birthmark after he was about 2 weeks old. At about 10 days old his face broke out in a facefull of pimples. All the pimples left after 3 weeks but some red dots developed over his left eye where some pimples had been. They grew slowly to some six spots about the size of half a pencil eraser. They were flat but soon got bumpy. Took him to the doctor ready for her to tell us they'd have to remove the eye. She said it was a Hemangioma. A temporary tumor of the capillaries in the epidermis. Sounded bad but she said it wasn't a big deal. She said it would likely get a bit bigger and then fade away entirely by the time he turns one. We breathed a sigh of relief. In fact his sister Ruby has one by her nose. Her mark was bright for about a month and began fading and can now barely be seen. The mark is so common it is called Angels kisses and we've started to see and hear of lots of other kids that have it or have had it. So that's the story. But the story about the maggots is way more interesting...
