posted on January 13, 2002 09:22:22 PM
What do you think about cosmetic plastic surgery? Anymore it seems like you can have ANYTHING done, so if money was no object, would you have anything done??
posted on January 13, 2002 10:53:00 PM
No! No! No!
I agree about the knives. I also don't want to end up over done looking like Cher and Michael Jackson. I could get addicted and keep going and going and going till there was nothing left of me.
posted on January 14, 2002 06:06:22 AM
No way! My younger sister had a face lift and eye lift last year. Personally, I don't see the benefit of looking 47 instead of 51. She was good looking before. Now she looks startled.
posted on January 14, 2002 09:38:13 AM
Cosmetic Surgery for people that are deformed can be a blessing.
Cosmetic surgery from these type operaions have led to implanted balls in eye sockets covered with grafts over them for children & adults.
The ball when implanted in children, keep the cheek structure growing after a loss of an eye.
I have seen a Cleft palate line that extented from chin through the mouth, nose, & right eye of a baby.
When the baby, was old enough the line was removed along with the eye. The child had the silicone ball implanted in the eye socket. The grafts came from the ear. A contact was made & placed over the eye. as the child grew so did the cheek bone.
So I say when it comes to cosmetic surgery go for it, if that flips the ole gas pedal.
posted on January 14, 2002 02:12:31 PM
I'd consider it. A year ago my answer would have been different, but I recently got braces and am planning to have jaw surgery next year. After getting into the mindset that I can go through something like that, something like a facelift doesn't seem as horrible.
posted on January 14, 2002 02:23:31 PM
About thirty years ago, I had to rush my then lover in because of hemmorraging, and she stayed for a couple of days. There was another woman in the shared room who'd had a facelift and she moaned and screamed all day and night and complained that she would never have done it if she'd have known about the pain.
posted on January 14, 2002 02:32:30 PM
I saw a "cosmetic surgery gone wrong" show a while back which had some awful outcomes. One lady died, another had permanent nerve damage in her face which made it terribly sensitive to touch, and another was permanently scarred by laser resurfacing. Much of it was due to doctor error.
Don't they have better pain meds these days than they did 30 years ago? I have a friend who had liposuction and was in a lot of pain afterward, but he was always glad he did it.
posted on January 14, 2002 02:32:51 PM
Hi, RainyBear. I remember your mentioning that surgery. It's the same procedure my dentist recommended for me. If I were younger, I probably would have it also. It'll more than likely alleviate future jaw pain.
posted on January 14, 2002 02:36:38 PM
Hi saabsister! When I mentioned it before I hadn't decided whether to do it or not, but now I'm fully on course for it. Just today I was cleared to schedule the extraction of my wisdom teeth and the exposure of a tooth which is "hiding" in the roof of my mouth. The jaw surgery will be the climax of all this awful stuff (I hope)!
posted on January 14, 2002 02:55:42 PM
I've heard it's VERY painful krs. Worse than being burned. Especially the ones where they lift your face right off & fix everything underneath.
It's just that everyone tends to look really surprised, like saabsister says. I would always wonder what emotion they were trying to convey.
posted on January 14, 2002 03:37:27 PM
Picture Dyan Cannon in her early days and look at her now on Ally McBeal and Sisters. Also, Hot Lips on the MASH Movie. Does the phrase "lizard lips" come to mind? That's what happens when one has too many face lifts.
posted on January 17, 2002 07:52:19 PM
I’ve been having plastic surgery since I was 13, when my Mom had my “Dumbo ears” pinned back. Then in my early 20’s I got rid of my Roman Patrician nose. I’ve had other things done over the years, and have NEVER had a bad experience.
Most of the “horrors” I hear and read about, have occurred to people who didn’t investigate the subject, and particularly their doctor well enough, and searched for the best “financial deal,” which isn’t what one does when you are seeking a good Plastic Surgeon. I am in the market for a eye lid lift and probably a laser treatment, since I see many laser treatments, which have made as startling a difference as a full face life.
I am PRO plastic surgery all the way. I will say, my nose job, actually for me, was the most uncomfortable Plastic Surgery operation I’ve had, but perhaps that was just me. I am phobic about having a stopped up nose, and a major nose job is equal to the worst and longest cold you could ever have. BUT, would I do it over, yes, in a minute – discomfort and all.
Regarding the woman mentioned above, screaming and such, that is without excuse – that is what pain pills or shots are for. Again, you check out your doctor BEFORE the fact, not after you are in pain.
Personally, I see no reason (out side of money) that one shouldn’t look as good as they feel, and as young as they feel.
posted on January 17, 2002 08:41:38 PM
If I had money you betcha! Not like a major face life, but maybe something around the eyes, cheek implants, lips, lipo. Oh yea, I would go for it.
posted on January 17, 2002 08:45:02 PM
For those who say NO - NO knife for me - Look at these BEFORE AND AFTER Pictures from a Plastic Surgery Site on the Web.
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What appears to be Mothers and Daughters, are actually Before and After!
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If that is what the knife can do - bring on the knife!
posted on January 18, 2002 04:45:43 AM
Yes, Helen, I'd love to see "before" and "after" pictures taken with the same lighting and focus.
My sister had a good surgeon, used medications for pain and to avoid excessive bruising, and came away with minimal complications. However, I would not spend $10,000+ to look four or five years younger. At fifty, I don't have the skin tone or coloration of a twenty year old and never will again. I'm afraid that my sister has to pontential to become "catwoman" because there's a problem in her life that she hasn't addressed and multiple marriages or facelifts are not going to solve this.
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