Plastic surgery and Botox are two different things.
I was attacked by a dog when I was a small child in the somewhat early years of plastic surgery. I wound up getting 78 tiny stitches in my face.
If my accident had happened just a few years earlier, or the surgeon had not been there, I would have lost an eye and had to live my life with a very disfigured face. I was very fortunate: the scar in the corner of my eye is nearly invisible, and the gaping hole in my cheek is only minimally visible.
I owe a large debt of gratitude to that surgeon. He worked on my face for hours, and I was his 2nd long surgery that day.
I was a small child, and it was excruciating for me to hold still while my eye was being sewn with a needle. Because it was my eye, they had to keep me awake with only a local anesthetic that only partly numbed the skin by my eye. I still felt every stitch. The surgeon kept begging me not to cry, over and over. Promising he'd be done faster if I could keep from crying. That's what I remember most. Holding back my tears. When it was all done... I got to have a BIG MAC from McDonalds!
Meanwhile Botox is now being used to treat a wide range of medical conditions. Including muscle spasms, migraines, and lazy eye. As in an older relative of mine had a major stroke. He lost use of his leg, and suffered daily painful muscle spasms. Botox in his leg helped ease his pain a great deal when nothing else worked.
Alas, I've always liked Bambi's friend Thumper.
It’s when you think you’ve found a perfect view and then the hoards of children going up on shoulders as the show starts is what really aggravates me. Hold them at chest height if they can’t see so people behind can still watch
