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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (14560)	1/1/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine: The type of surgery Del is talking about has probably considerably less risk than the drive to the hospital. Also the anesthesia will probably be local with some sedation and memory-erasing medication. All in all, as safe or safer than filling a tooth. Post surgical depression can be real, but usually associated with much more major operations and long hospital stays, immobilization and dependence on others for basic bodily cares, etc. Asking the questions you suggest is a good idea. Finding the right surgeon is a little trickier. The vast majority of the Board Certified surgeons will be fine. If you know someone in the field, an operating room nurse or anesthesiologist, for example, who will give you an "off the record" recommendation, this is very helpful. Family doctors are OK for surgical recommendations, but it's amazing how few of them have ever seen the surgeon they refer patients to actually do an operation. This is why the OR nurse's or Anesthesiologist's recommendations are so valuable, if you can get them. Someday I should write a book about this. Jack

To: Grainne who wrote (14560)	1/2/1998 2:05:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

Hi Christine, Hey, I've been doing some net searching on blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), and I found what looks like a good site. plasticsurgery.org Since feelings seems to attract middle agers, maybe we can all start getting our faces carved up and start looking like lizards from all of the stretched skin. There is a realtor here who has had so many face lifts that her mouth stretches all the way to her ears when she feigns her realtor smile. I keep waiting for her tongue to dart out and pick off a bug. I don't know what kind of flu is going around California, but it seemed to be concentrated in L.A. Del