
I wipe before I look
Cloth first. Looking later, if at all. I've done that for years. Nobody ever said the order might matter.
Four things
Look first, one morning. These four items are why that order matters.

Cloth first. Looking later, if at all. I've done that for years. Nobody ever said the order might matter.

I get that yellow crust every morning. I always thought that was just sleep. After fifty, everything gets blamed on sleep. Some of it is. I'm not sure this is.
Hop not wired. This is a dry run of the click, not a tracked send.

It never occurred to me that it was a symptom of anything. You don't bring up sleep gunk at an appointment. One morning of looking first is enough of an experiment.

A barrier around the retina. Something from the gut that may not stay put. Asked as a question. That's the item the washcloth was standing in for.
I wrote them down because wiping never felt like the whole job. If you wipe first every morning, try it for sixty days and see.
Hop not wired. This is a dry run of the click, not a tracked send.