Friday, September 16, 2011

Daily we look at ourselves in the face in a mirror...

Whether we are happy with what we see or not means often how we react to the option of what we can do to leave well enough alone or choose to change what we see…
Or perhaps not!
Gosh, now you and I have the option to go under the knife for major changes or use at home products that are less invasive and consist of everything from moisturizing creams to, rough sponges that remove loose skin or scouring machines that claim to do it with less effort, but now we have at home kits with chemical peels to a bit more invasive DIY Botox injection sets!
If the truth be told when I was turning fifty-five and had a birthday coming up Hubby asked me what I wanted and I said that I would love to get my two facial scars removed, one being that dog bite above my lip which took forty stitches that time from a plastic surgeon and the biopsy remnant on my left cheek that took one stitch from a dermatologist and fortunately was a benign lump. Most people are kind and say that they don’t notice them, but I always do believe they are just being polite and to have them lessened or maybe totally removed would have been my wish, and so I went to the local plastic surgery physician to find out.

The doctor said he couldn’t remove them but could do a couple of procedures that he let me know were not covered by insurance, which at that time I did have, and were not surgeries but injectable temporary remedies. Restylane a sugar based injectable filler, and Botox a highly toxic wrinkle remover!
They would be costly but those times were different and it was before retirement and all and this would be my birthday present and so I called Hubby and he said go for it, and so I did.
The results at first were worse than my scars themselves with redness seemingly making them more obvious and I had been sold a cream, but right now I couldn’t tell you what it was. I was to apply it accordingly daily a few times a day and in time, a few days all would look much better and sure enough in my mind’s eye it did!
I felt better about what I thought took away from and that people might be looking at me for all the wrong reasons… but it was not that extreme the transformation, subtle and lasted more than others I have known or heard about, more than a year I believe.

So now, with this, at home version of Botox sounds intriguing but I don’t think at this point I would do it to myself, another needle and who needs more, ya know?
But here’s the rub, rumor has it that Botox could be a helpful asset to Multiple Sclerosis, not a cure, but another feeling better thingy, hmm, that makes it a much more interesting prospect and cost effective now although not covered by insurance, which I don’t have anyway now…TA DA!
I just think that now, like many other medications used for one thing can be used for other things is rather fascinating, don’t you?
I hear tell that it is also a temporary cure for severe perspiration/sweating of the feet or armpits too, Botox that is.
See, not all uses are for aesthetics, huh? Although wet pits or soggy socks, you sure could use that as not a pretty picture and a few good reasons, I suspect… but that’s a matter of perception or is that perspiration, ha?
Not that there is anything wrong with that.

So many things today have dual/multiple uses, unlike Multiple Sclerosis which by the by means many white matter patches/lesions or booboos on the brain and or spinal cord, which is not good!

On that tiny lesson of some hopeful interest allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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