Possible Clues:

• Pen note that the doctor should look at
• Pen beginning to expand -- you might notice it on the lid
• Affliction near the eye
• One's sore, getting left out of fashion
• 38-Across sore
• Cause for painful blinking
• Visual impairment causing line to go out of fashion
• Beastly home earl finds a 7
• Son yet to burst swelling
• Eyelid problem, sore, that you experienced initially