28 Years of a Truck Driver Tan

As an optician who looks closely at peoples’ faces every day, I can safely say that the asymmetry of his eyes are well within normal limits.

Wearing plain cotton gloves(the Japanese have them)on long drives in the sun is my defence against the left hand skin cancer threat(though it's actually right hand in my case here in NZ).
I post this in part in hope that if others wear them, I won't get quite so many odd looks.

need a job sharing program with England, or any other left side of the road driving country.

As an optician who looks closely at peoples' faces every day, I can safely say that the asymmetry of his eyes are well within normal limits.

As an optician looking closely at peoples' faces every day, I can safely say that the asymmetry of his eyes are well within normal limits.

Sun damage and age also destroys the elasticity of your skin. There are structures under your face and around your eye area that will begin to sag when that top layer loses elasticity. Your eyes are not just some melon balls sitting in a socket. There are muscles and fat that keep your eyes cushioned and centered in your socket. When the fat starts to thin, and the muscles start to get pulled on by the sagging skin that it supports, your eyes also begin to drop.

I don't think he has had a stroke.

I drive school bus, and i had noticed at work, that most of the drivers have one arm more tan than the other.

My brother and his wife have both had skin cancer before reaching age 30. If you're sickly pale white, you are meant to stay that way.

My late father was a truck driver for most of his life and in his later years was treated for skin cancer. He had a spot on his nose, maybe one on his cheek and there was a very large spot on his left wrist (which was always in the window) that had to be removed. I can still remember helping him to change the bandage on his left wrist and it just was not pretty. His doctor had dug deep to remove the cancer. I just cannot remember if the left side of his face differed much from the right side. He probably drove truck for at least 30-40 years.

Might be more Bell's palsy if he drove with the window down

If one wants to have one's leg pulled, one doesn't go to the New England Journal of Medicine (try the British Medical Journal at Christmas). The man does exhibit some facial asymmetry, but it is not suggestive of a stroke.

Nice find, John, and very instructive photo to show to young people.

Stroke was the first thing that came to mind. Someone's pulling your leg.

Pretty sure exposure to sunlight doesn't make the eye move lower in its socket. That guy has had a stroke in addition to having a driver's tan for three decades.