I seriously did get botoxed--conservatively--and it's making my eyebrows do a weird arch thing that I hadn't planned on, but my mad-face lines are still as apparent as ever. And, yes, it has everything to do with being called a Grandma. I wrote a post on Aging awhile ago and I wasn't kidding.
The little brown spots on my face have turned dark and should be scabbing over and sloughing off in a couple of days.
I'll do a pre & post picture. The brown spots on my cheek make me look a little beat up, like not cute. I would take a picture right now but my camera battery's completely depleted. I've started doing a daily video diary and it eats up the battery rather quickly.
So, I've been following a Nurse Practitioner in a Pediatric clinic for the past few weeks. Today my professor said she'd met with all our mentors and we could come see her if we wanted to know what they'd said. I went to office after class and she's like, "Come in and have a seat." I did, she shut the door and I was thinking, "Uh oh!"
Apparently he told her my facial expression is intimdating/makes the patients nervous! Clearly I should have done botox weeks ago, although the current state of my eyebrows makes me look even more mad than usual. I was trying to decide whether I should ask my mentor what exactly he meant--was it a one time incident or an ongoing kind of thing, but I totally lost my nerve, couldn't do it. Dum dum--my mentor, not me.
ha ha ha!! that's hilarious. But listen, maybe it wasn't the eyebrows. Are you smiling when you go in the room? I think you need to ask for clarification, maybe a demonstration. Why should the patients feel nervous?
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get the injections? Did they do them in the creases? Are you going to have a perpetually surprised look on your face?
There were just three injections, between my eyebrows.
ReplyDeleteI asked my mentor today what I could work on--didn't ask specifically what he'd told my professor--he said that *I* appear nervous when I go to examine a patient. Well, sometimes I am! Sheesh, give me a break!
So it was just nervousness, that's to be expected. It has nothing to do with your eyebrow creases.
ReplyDeleteSonja I saw your pictures and you know what, I have the same lines between my brows. It is always the first thing I notice when I look in the mirror now (that, and my zits, is it not unfair to suffer from both wrinkles and zits?). These lines have made me consider doing botox too... but I am philosophically opposed to these types of enhancements (meaning: it's fine for others but I simply couldn't). Here in Venezuela, with all the fake boobs, lips, butts, and so forth, I know a couple shots to the forehead is considered pretty tame (lame, even), but I feel a need to prove that I'm all natural!
ReplyDeleteAnd even *IF* those lines were truly making the patients nervous (and that's a big IF), I'm sure withiin seconds of talking to you they would all recognize you for the wonderful kind person you are.
PS I do think the botox did its intended job... which makes it tempting for me... but I hate needles