This blog will probably date me badly but for you "young-uns' who don't know who Sophia Loren is, in my day she was a movie star.....Italian, dark eyes, dark hair, very sexy with a figure most women would kill for.....Well, on to my story about this....

It was my very first visit to the plastic surgeon after the fire and I was dreading it so bad. I had lost most of the "looks" of my face besides the hair and eyebrows and to me I looked like a red, swollen hunk of hamburger meat in the mirror. When I first saw him, he looked like a movie star....so young and very nice looking and I felt so awful the way I looked even though I knew it didn't matter to him and it was just a job.

He did everything he could to make me comfortable with him knowing I am sure that "I' knew I was in for a lot of pain from him from all the many, many injections of collagen I would be taking in my lips, cheeks, eyes area, etc. He tried to joke but one of the first things he asked me was what was my "expectations for what he could do for me?"...."what did I want to look like in the long run"?

I laughed and told him I just wanted to look like Sophia Loren so just go ahead and do what he needed to do with all those needles...LOL  He got a very determined look on his face at that time.....started looking me slowly up from the tip of my toes all the way to the top of my head before he replied.... "I might be able to do something with your face but not so sure about the body".....you see, I have always been what you called a little "plus-sized" and I had to burst into laughter at the thought he could even work a "miracle" to give me the curvy body she had....Needless to say, we became big buddies that day and I was able to withstand all of the pain he dealt me as he injected injection after injection of collagen week after week into my face to mold it....

You see I was "hip" back them before all of the collagen facelifts and plastic surgery frenzy. You might say I am the "grandma" of all collagen as my face is made up of it and someday I might just crumble like a statue.....LOL  Oh well, he didn't make me look like Sophia Loren but he did a heck of a job from turning me into hamburger meat into the looks of a real person.....I may not be beautiful but hey at least i now HAVE a face!!!!!.....LOL