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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Holy Cow!

Its been over two months since my last blog post!

Where do I even begin to fill in the gaps?

I left you two months ago with my before and after photos of my eyelid surgery.

All is going well, I still have visible scars, that will eventually go away. My eyes feel great and I still look like myself.

I am going to squeeze a few months into this blog post..

so…here goes!

Here I am on my Maine visit with Kathie Brown…we also visited with Robin Robinson…all friends via Facebook.

Rainbow seen with Kathie in Maine..

We gobbled up all the time we could get with our precious Granddaughter.

We said goodbye to fall…

For cold and snow in November..

It was time to leave the cold northeast and head to warmer climes..

We stopped in Williamsburg, VA for a little history..

Then headed to NC to park in Sickstas side yard, where we had our second Autumn.

and some lovely sunsets..

We had Thanksgiving at Sicktas home..

Jeff made a great turkey!

I watched the birds….and was surprised that the numbers coming to my feeders were down considerably.

We raked and burned leaves…

I made Beef Bone broth for us…

and Peanut suet and seed balls for the birds…

It was time for another road trip..

This time without Homey.

010efc2098de7aaf081f5cdac5dc34bfeb97c68a3c Jeff, Sicksta Dell and I packed up our Christmas and Hanukah gifts and headed up north to CT and MA to celebrate with family.

Jeff and I joined Samarrah and her hubby for our first Hanukah celebration of the trip..

Then it was back to CT to celebrate Christmas with my family.

Back to Mass for another Hanukah party this time with Jeffs family..

I got a selfie stick in the grab and as you can see by the following photos…I had lots of fun with it.

Jeff enjoying tea time with our Granddaughter.

Back to CT for Sister tattoos..

Ouch!

tattoo A lovely heart tattoo designed by my niece Tara.

I got mine on my ankle..

New Years Eve fun with my family and my new Selfie stick!

Selfie stick video…

Yeah, we, I am CRAZY!

It was a whirlwind two weeks up north…but it was time to go south again….it was getting too cold up north for us.

That darn Selfie stick..

We stopped overnight in Williamsburg to show Sicksta around.

And then…

headed back to our own beds in NC….

Home is where Homey is..

and here we are….in NC until the end of the week when we move our tires south to Florida for a few months…

See you all later!

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Thursday, October 16, 2014

These Eyes…

These 58 year old eyes have something to tell you..

Its been a week and a day since my surgery.

I have waited until after my upper blepharoplasty surgery to blog about my experience.

I thought long and hard about whether or not to blog before my surgery and to go through the whole process with you all...

I decided against it.

There were two reasons I decided not to...what if I went under anesthesia and never came out….

Joan Rivers went for a routine procedure under anesthesia and you know that outcome….

I thought about how I might be judged having an elective surgery and dying on the table,,,yeah, dramatic ..but that was one of the thoughts I had..

I have NEVER had a surgery…..This was to be my first and I was worried about going under with propofol and not coming out...yeah...Michael Jackson and his propofol death.

So death under anesthesia was on my mind.

I did have to be cleared by a Cardiologist and have an EKG before the surgery.

My other reason was, It has taken me over three years to finally make the decision to have this surgery.

I didn't want any negativity against plastic surgery to affect me before having this done.

I see many posts about people saying to age gracefully, keep the

wrinkles etc. Yeah, I am all for that...I think woman can age gracefully and beautifully without surgeries.

I also feel if a woman wants to have plastic surgery to make her feel or look younger it's her life and her body. I can't make judgments on what someone should or shouldn't do.

That being said....

My eye lids were aging,the excess skin hung over my eyelashes and the side of my eye...my eyelids felt heavy and people would often say I looked tired.

My father had blepharoplasty surgery because he lost peripheral vision.

He almost had an accident because he couldn't see out the sides of his eyes… the excess skin was in the way.

Dad told me the surgery was easy and he had no pain. I did see photos and he was very black and blue afterwards. Insurance paid for his surgery..he didn't go to a plastic surgeon...an eye DR. did the work and he looks fine and his peripheral vision is good now.

My mother also has a similar issue with her eyes. She was told insurance would cover her surgery as well, she has opted not to have the surgery after seeing my dads eyes black and blue for many days after his surgery.

My eyes are more like my dads. I knew it would be a matter of time when I would loose some peripheral vision, as it was I felt as though I was seeing better when I raised my eyebrows to open my eyes more...

I found myself raising my eye brows a lot.

I have never had surgery so I was nervous, I consulted with one plastic surgeon for a several years who was intending to do the surgery….

each time I would see her for a consult and chicken out before setting up an actual appointment for the surgery.

When I finally made my decision to do it, she decided she was not the best surgeon for me. She felt I needed a bit more work to get better results for what she said were my drooping eyebrows..which were causing more excess tissue.
She referred me to another plastic surgeon.

The second surgeon felt I needed a temporal brow lift as well as the excess skin removed.

I decided to go through with it, even though I was frightened about not coming out of the anesthesia.

But…

I am happy to say..I survived. Smile