Botox Wrecked My Eyelid

0:00 It's so weird because I'll talk about something at work and then I like open up my Pinterest and there's an ad for something like what we were just talking about. I'm starting to see like installation, installation tips and tricks in my Pinterest. I'm like, no, my Pinterest is for hair and makeup and crafting. It is not for housing insulation. Hello. Hi. How was your Friday? Good. Me and my bots are just trying to get work done. Are you? Oh, okay. So are they doing the majority of the work or are you doing it? You know, it's pretty cool. No, I just say, hey, a task, let me just like in the dumbest way possible say, if a task used to take me 15 clicks, like I have to get something here, move it over here, upload it, order it, pay for it, blah, blah, blah.

0:55 Like these processes never took very long, but when you do hundreds of them a day, it's kind of exhausting. Just feels like a lot of clicking. And now I just say to the bot, order me a transcript of this episode. And then five minutes later, it says, here you go. Oh, well, that is convenient. It's pretty nice. It's not any one thing. It's like the aggregate of all of the annoying things is gone, which is actually turning out to be pretty life-changing, I would say. Sorry, Mike. The sun was blaring in my eyeballs. Uh, so, so I don't know if you can see this, but yeah. So tell me about, so sometimes we do a little pre-talk or we just like shoot the shit before we actually record. And so we were kind of just talking about the, the Botox. So you think your eyebrow has dropped down? I mean, as a stylist and somebody who did eyebrows.

1:50 Are you about to tell me I have a five head? Uh, No. Oh my God. Okay. So first of all, if you had one, would I say so? Absolutely. Yes. I'd be like, you have a five head. You do have a five head, but you don't. So they look even to me is what I'm saying. Like they look good, but if you're used to like mine, like my, my right, is this my right? No, this is my left. You guys, I can't. It, My left eyebrow comes up a little bit. And so if you're used to seeing it a little higher up, see now when you put your head down like that, I can see that that one is, and we're talking like, like not even a millimeter, but it's so not noticeable.

2:39 It's not my eyebrows that's bothering me. It's my eyelid. So what I had before, I was starting to have eyelids again. When I was fat, I had no eyelids again. Then I was feeling really good about my eyelids because I was like, well, my face looks different. All my laser treatments have made my face look better. Then I went and got Botox for my forehead. And it like seeped. Did it seep down? Is that what happens? I don't know. I've only had Botox like a. Couple of times. She just stayed way up here. Yeah. So all my forehead lines are kind of gone. They look great. Yeah. They were getting really prominent again. Now they're back to kind of natural looking. Well, I went back for more for a touch-up, and so she did one more row right here, and that's what did it, and everything went choo.

3:27 I mean, maybe. It's just millimeters, probably. It is. But this eyelid is gone now. Oh, okay. Now that you pointed out, I can see it, but as somebody that looks at you a lot, I don't, I really don't think that the average person would ever even, they'd just be like, oh, you're fresh-faced. Like, okay, cool. Like, I mean. And to no one's surprise, now my feed is full of videos saying, never do Botox here, because I had a conversation with a friend about it, and my phone heard. The whole thing. And your phone just was listening. It's listening all the time. It's so scary. Oh, my God. It's pretty scary. It's so weird, because I'll talk about something at work, a random-ass thing, and then I, like, open up my Pinterest, and there's an ad for something like what we were just talking about.

4:10 I'm like... Yeah. I'm starting to see, like... installation tips and tricks in my Pinterest. I'm like, no. My Pinterest is for hair and makeup and crafting. It is not for housing insulation. No. So I had to put her on the path because I'm like, you're not going to be going off the rails here, Pinterest. We need to stay on track. I can't barely even go on there because it's so hard to use with all the ads and the junk. Yeah, it is rough. Because there are a lot of ads that come through that you're like you think is a pin and then it's an ad. Now you've clicked on it. Now you think that now it thinks that you want more of those. And I'm like, oh, my God.

4:56 And then it will send like the most random weird shit like plastic underwear. Got an ad for that. Why are your kids home? They never go to school on Friday. They don't have school on Fridays ever? Never. No. It is only a four. Man, that's awesome. Literally awesome. Yeah, so I can get into the school. I got a school drama, but anyways. Well, not to get into politics at all, and I actually have not paid attention for a year. No, I have one sentence, and then we're going to move on. Yeah.

5:38 And it's really a global sentence because it happens on both sides, is that people have these opinions, and they never think about the kids who are being hurt with their opinions. policy decisions so you can't make something possible for hundreds of thousands of kids and then just take it away the cat is way out of the bag like we have had we've had charter schools and we've had we have huge property tax problems here our property taxes are extremely high The schools stopped being school a long time ago. All we want, and I will maintain this for the rest of my life. If school was just school, like if I could trust that teachers taught instead of sticking iPads in kids' faces, and that school was just school and not political, we would go back to public school. That's all I want is no iPads and no politics at school. And they can't do it.

6:34 They can't help themselves. So? We had to find alternatives, and we've created other ways to just go to school. Right. And the same thing is true with my husband. He just wants to teach science. Just science. And what grade is he teaching? Is he in high school? Yeah, middle and high. Oh, okay. I hear you. Now they're all threatening to take the— we don't get vouchers. We can afford to pay for school. It's not that much. It's as much as daycare. But there are lots and lots of families of kids with autism, dyslexia, who've gotten this little tiny bit of money to go to a different school. And they're the ones who have benefited the most from this evil voucher program. And they're threatening to take it away. And it's really.

7:21 Distressing to me. That is, yeah. It'd be one thing if it was like, hey, the kids that already qualified will continue to use the program. We're just not going to bring in any new kids anymore. But to just cut everyone off, I don't agree with that either. And actually, if you look at the stats, something like a quarter of the people who got the voucher money were using it for pre-K. That's daycare, people. Oh, yeah. They're using it so that they can go to work while their kids are at pre-K. It's a daycare voucher. Yes. So nobody ever, they're like, Well, we're going to get rid of the bachelor program. They never talk about all the kids that are going to get hurt if they do that.

8:07 Yeah. So that was more than one sentence, but that's my. Hey, I'm not even mad at you. I totally agree. Yeah, we had. Yeah, they were failing all the special ed kids too, for what it's worth. Public school is not taking care of them either. And so.... You are preaching to the choir right now. You don't even know. So Cordelia has never had an official diagnosis of anything. I suspect that she's struggling with some ADHD tendencies, which part of me is like chalking it up to the fact that, okay, she's just turned nine years old.

8:48 Even at that age, focus is difficult. Okay, is this just her being her age and okay? Or. is there like something like going on here, right? So apparently this morning, Justin calls me at like 8.35 and I'm like, he never calls. Something's wrong. Yeah, right? I was like, so I had already been at work for a couple of hours and he calls me and I was like, what's wrong? He's like, well, I just talked to the bus driver and she said that in the afternoons, She's not going to be able to wait for Cordelia to get on the bus. I'm like, what?

9:30 He's like, well, apparently she is being escorted to the bus well after all the other kids are already on the bus and ready to go. Like, she's the last one that has to leave the school for her bus route. Not, like, probably the whole school. But, like, to get on that particular bus, she's the last one. And she's like, yeah. And then she gets escorted. And then she's, like, really sad and weepy. And I'm like, the fuck? So I already knew that they have a daily progress report, right? And I wish I had a copy of it or I'd show it to you, but it's like a little half sheet of paper. It's like a several, maybe two or three sentences, right? That the teacher puts up on the board and the kids copy it down. And it's usually directly related to their homework. So it'll say something like, today I I realized, you know, I have the ability to describe a character in a realistic fiction book, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, it's correlated to like a writing assignment, right?

10:30 Or math assignment or whatever. So they have to write down these sentences, which I think is stupid, but okay. But apparently, whatever time is being given for them to do it, Cordelia is not getting it done. And this is not the first time I've heard of this, but I did not realize that That she was holding up the entire bus from leaving by making Cordelia wait and do this after everybody's already on the bus. I was like, what in the actual hell is happening? Really weird. So I think there's a piece of the puzzle I don't understand. So to be fair, I'm not trying to shoot anybody down. So I was like... There's more to this story. You know, and I'm like, she has never said to us, hey, Cordelia's struggling with this. Unfortunately, I have to make her stay after the kids are already on the bus to complete it because it takes her so long. Like, I would have been like, well, what is the solution? Because the solution is not to hold up the other 30 children from getting home on time.

11:30 That's not the answer. I was so pissed. And so I was like, so I have to send her. We use ParentSquare. I'm not sure if you've heard of that app, but it's like how to communicate with the teachers in the school. And that's where you get like their newsletters. These are good gigs. If you can get a school to buy your app. Right. So I'm like, OK, so I pull it up. I draft this thing. I copy it. I send it to Justin. I was like, am I OK to send this? Do I sound like a complete bitch because I'm about to come through this Internet right now? So the other. layer to this is that we've noticed there's there's been many times where she's gotten off the bus and been in a real shitty sad mood and i'm like what's going on baby like why are you so upset like what's upset you today i don't want to talk about it so she's embarrassed to admit that that's happened she doesn't want to tell us well i got in trouble like she's not that kind of kid that's going to confess her sins like she just isn't some.

12:26 Kids they're nine and they're about to they're kind of starting to understand what it's like to be self-conscious about stuff. Right So exactly. So, you know, and there are some kids out there that like, they could have like, you know, done something really horrible. And the first thing they're going to do is tell their mom every detail. Like there are kids out there like that. She's not one of those kids. Like it's like pulling teeth to get her to talk about her feelings, which is another part of ADHD. So I can relate anyways. So I send this, I haven't heard back from the teacher. This is literally just happened today. However, I did call the transportation department and I'm like, Okay, y'all, I explained everything that was going on. And the lady on the phone was really nice. And she said, let me talk to the director.

13:09 Cool. She puts me on hold for several minutes. So I'm like, oh, okay, she's really giving the story, right? Because if she had picked up like 10 seconds later, I'd be like, you did not tell them everything. But she did, right? And she's like, nobody's hurt anything. Because my first thought is these kids are getting off the bus late and parents are complaining. And now somebody's talked to the bus driver to say, hey, this is we think the issue is you need to make sure that these parents know that this is going to happen, that she's not going to get on the bus if she's not out there with all the other kids. But that's not the case. The bus driver took it upon herself to say something, which I told him. I said, A, I want somebody to express my gratitude for her making that decision on her own accord to say something and taking ownership of her job and her role in my child's life. Love it.

13:58 Please do that. I said, that kind of communication is so radically important. More, more, please. Thank you. But apparently there's been no complaints that they could, they told me about. They, I'm sure they would have said, yeah, we've had some complaints and we figured it out and we, you know, directed her to say something, blah, blah, blah. And I would have been like totally fine with it because I said, you guys, I had no idea this was going on. I knew that she was being like forced to do that, like write this, these sentences down, but I didn't, Never would I have ever imagined that she's going to hold up the bus with all the... And it's not just kids from her grade. These are like kids from all the grades that live in our little route. Like, it's got to be at least 20 to 30 kids.

14:45 I just realized I have a meeting that got rescheduled to 1 o'clock. What time is it? That isn't normally at this time. It's right now. That's right now. I know. Okay. So here's what we're going to do, people. We are going to have to just, you know, take a... what are they called? An intermission. We're going to intermission. Yeah. It got moved and I never have meetings on Friday. So my brain did not. Whoopsie. Totally cool. Okay. Intermission. We'll come back later. Hopefully. I'll text you when I'm done. Follow us on Instagram at less of you podcast. Are you confronting the same challenges and have a story to tell? I'd love to hear your story on our Skinny Shot Stories podcast. Contact me for more details at skinnyshotstories.com. If you're a doctor and would like to learn more about sponsoring this or any of our cosmetic surgery and weight loss podcasts, go to lessofyou.com. Less of You is a production of The Axis.

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