May 6, 2025 • 18 mins
#172: Ever had a seemingly small decision spiral into years of unexpected consequences? That's exactly what happened with my under-eye filler journey that began a decade ago. What should have been a simple cosmetic enhancement has turned into a persistent medical saga involving multiple dissolving procedures, surgery, and ongoing complications. The lesson? Some fillers don't dissolve naturally as promised, and under-eye treatments deserve extra caution.
But life carries on with its mix of mundane and meaningful moments. My Chihuahua recently needed dental surgery at age 11 (that's 60 in dog years, by the way – forget that "multiply by seven" rule we all learned). While under anesthesia, she provided some comic relief with her tongue hanging out while struggling to stay awake standing up. The procedure also revealed a mild heart murmur, adding another dimension to pet parenthood as she approaches her senior years.
Meanwhile, severe weather patterns have me contemplating tornado shelters, and my beauty routine has evolved toward more natural approaches. Face taping has become my go-to alternative to injectables – using specialized Japanese tape designed specifically for delicate facial skin to prevent sleep wrinkles. Combined with a satin bonnet for hair protection, I might look "hella scary" at bedtime, but wake up looking better than ever. As one wise person noted, "It's not about what we look like going to bed, it's what we wake up looking like."
This journey has highlighted the double standard in how society views aging – celebrating men who "age like fine wine" while expecting women to somehow stay youthful naturally while also pursuing every beauty enhancement available. Perhaps the real beauty breakthrough isn't found in procedures or products, but in finding comfort with our choices and our authentic selves. If you're navigating similar beauty dilemmas or pet parent adventures, you're not alone – share your experiences with me and join the conversation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is up everyone?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Babbles Nonsense podcast
.
Today's episode is going to beshort and sweet and it's just
going to be literally mebabbling about literal nonsense,
just stuff that has happenedover the past couple of weeks in
my life that I was like youknow what I haven't done.
A quick little update in alittle bit.
So that's what today's episodeis going to be about.
(00:20):
All right, I hope everyone ishaving a very good week.
(00:50):
It is a new month, it is may,mother's day is coming up,
spring should be around thecorner.
Um, if you live in tornadovalley I don't know, there's a
lot of different places thatpeople listen to.
Weather has been absolutelyinsane.
It's almost like for the pastseveral weekends we have had
nothing but either thunderstorms, that with crazy wind, or
(01:11):
tornado threats, and I justswear it's getting worse and
worse.
People say that global warmingis not real, but I beg to differ
.
Before all this stuff with myhouse, my next big project was
to get a tornado shelter, butobviously I don't want to keep
investing into this house untilwe kind of know what's going on.
But that is my next hugeinvestment that I'm going to do
(01:35):
is a tornado shelter.
It's a must.
Living in Alabama, tennessee, mywhole life we, you know, always
been scared of the tornadoweather and, like in more recent
years, tornado season has likeextended past April and May.
It's then also been in the fall, in like November, december,
(01:55):
which they say that's alwaysbeen tornado season, but I just
don't recall that until morerecent years.
But anyways, if you've been inthe weather, you get it, you
know, I don't know, butsomething about just getting
older to storms just get morescary.
I don't know, maybe it'sbecause when you're younger
you're not thinking about, Idon't know, dying, and when we
get older it's just like realityhits, like, oh, we're not
immortal, okay, this is what itis.
(02:18):
But anyways, last week was fun,not just kidding.
Um, no, my dog ended up havingdental surgery.
Well, she had her teeth cleanedand then she ended up with a
tooth pulled, which I kind offigured, because her breath has
been absolutely horrendouslately, like she's always had
bad breath, like her nickname isstinky breath, um, and her
(02:39):
teeth are just gross.
Like she's a Chihuahua.
And before anyone asks me,she's a great Chihuahua, just
ask any friends.
My aunt had a Chihuahua when Iwas younger, so she told me when
I got her that I had tosocialize her immediately.
So that's what I did.
I took her to any friend'shouse that had a dog, small
children, anything just in likelet everyone hold her so that
(02:59):
she did not become like thatyappy, territorial, like little
dog.
So now she just thinks thatshe's a big dog, and the only
time she really barks is like ifsomeone's coming in the front
door and I'm home.
If I'm not home like if I havelike leave a code for a guest or
something like that, or my momand anyone walks in the front
door and I am not home, shedoesn't bark.
She only barks when I'm home,which you know.
(03:21):
She's doing her job, she'sprotecting me, she's letting me
know that someone's coming inthe door, um, but anyways, um,
she's a great Chihuahua.
So if you know anything aboutChihuahuas, y'all know that they
have horrendous teeth.
Um, so she lost one of her frontteeth, like years ago, probably
almost 10 years ago Now.
It just fell out and then she'salways just had bad breath.
(03:42):
I've tried everything, from theyou know, the stuff that you
put in the water, the littlepowder you put on the food.
Nothing was working.
She doesn't do like raw hidesor any hard chewing bone or
anything like that.
She only she's very picky.
She only eats like soft treatsand stuff like that.
And, um, she also doesn'treally like water, which she is
(04:04):
not her mother's daughterbecause I love water, um, but
anyways, I took her to myfriend's sister who's a vet and
I was like I think she's goingto have to have several teeth
pulled.
I've tried looking in her mouth,oh, and before anyone says,
well, why don't you brush herteeth?
She won't let me, she won't letme.
She shakes her head, she closesher mouth, she clenches her jaw
.
She's just, she's a great dog.
(04:28):
I know it's not sounding likeit, but she's a great dog.
She just won't let me brush herteeth.
Um.
So I took her to my friend'ssister who is a vet and I was
like I think she's gonna have tohave several teeth pulled.
And, mind you, she's almost 12,she'll be 12 this year in
September and she acts like apuppy still, um, although she
has calmed down some, but theywere like, no, I think she's
only going to need one.
So they did a full exam on herand I've never gotten her teeth
(04:49):
cleaned before.
I know that's probably horribledog mom of me.
So nobody come at me, you know,if you're a dog lover.
But if you know it's, they haveto go under anesthesia.
And so me, being in the medicalfield, like it's just, it's
kind of like anxiety driven,thinking about putting my dog to
sleep Like I don't know, likeonce a year to have their teeth
(05:10):
cleaned or whatnot.
That just seems very excessivefor them to have to do that.
Plus, she's a small dog andshe's older, so I just didn't
want her.
You know, I don't know, I feelI just feel like dogs or animals
in general just processanesthesia very differently than
humans.
But she was hilarious.
So, because this was my friend'ssister, she took, she took a
(05:31):
photo after she woke up fromanesthesia and her eyes were
like bugging out of her head.
Now it's not her typical vetthat I take her to, but I wanted
her to go to my friend's sister, since I trusted her and I knew
like she is in good hands Notthat she wasn't in good hands
with the vet I currently use,but I just knew her.
So it just felt safer.
I don't know, I guess y'allcould relate to that, if you, if
(05:51):
you know what I'm talking about.
But, um, I took her there butshe used to be her vet a long
time ago and then I I justcouldn't keep doing the drive
where she was at, so we hadswitched to a new vet because my
friend went to a new vet.
Anyways, this is getting longand drawn out, but they ended up
finding a heart murmur on her.
(06:12):
So we do have to kind of watchher for that.
But she said it's not bad, Ijust need to watch it.
But of course, if you knowanything about heart and teeth
like you have, this is forhumans too.
You have to, you know, be onantibiotics.
You have to be careful when youhave a heart murmur or any like
any kind of heart conditions,when you're talking about
pulling teeth, cleaning teeth,stuff like that, just because
(06:32):
bacteria can go straight fromthe teeth to the heart so you
can end up with endocarditis orsomething like that, which is an
infection in the heart.
So she's been on antibiotics.
Thankfully she has not had anydiarrhea, thank the Lord.
Um, but she was just hilariousafter anesthesia she was like it
was also hair wash day for me,so I came home to like wash my
hair and she would not lay downwithout me.
But she was falling asleep withher tongue out of her mouth
(06:54):
standing up and it was just thefunniest thing.
And, like in the car on the wayhome, she was falling asleep
with her mouth open and hertongue hanging out and I was
just like it's just funnywatching dogs on anesthesia.
But she did great.
She only worked.
You know, she got one toothpulled.
She does have a little heartmurmur.
And then I was reading a chartwhile I was at the vet and you
know how people think that dogyears are like seven years.
(07:17):
So we're always like oh, justmultiply a dog's current age,
like what we would considertheir human age, by seven and
that's their dog age.
Well, according to this chart,that is not how it goes.
I think I only like, likememorize like a couple of them,
because I was looking.
So she's currently 11.
So according to this chart,she's 60.
She's not 77 like we allthought.
(07:39):
And then, like, when she turns12, she'll just go up by four
years, so 60, she'll be 64 thisyear in dog years.
And then when they turn onebecause it's also based on
weight, like there's, like thischart's like based on weight,
and their eight, like what wewould consider their human years
and so, based on her weight andher breed size, like when she
(07:59):
was one, she was 15.
So like it's different in ages.
So it wasn't like she was oneand she was seven.
Like when she was one, she was15.
So like it's different in ages.
So it wasn't like she was oneand she was seven, it was she's
one, she's 15, and then theyears go like by seven, and then
they go by three, then they goby four.
It was.
It was just crazy, because Iwas just like that is not what
we were taught.
We were taught that dogs age byseven years, but whatever,
she's younger than I thought,but she's still geriatric, but
(08:25):
it was just, it was cute and itwas funny.
I did share a photo on myInstagram the other day about it
and everyone laughedhysterically and I loved it.
Um, anyways, um, some some otherlittle updates.
I know I haven't updated on myeye in a while.
Um, so if you followed thatjourney about my under eye
filler that I got when I waslike, um, I don't know, I I want
to say 27.
So 10 years ago now that had tobe dissolved multiple times,
(08:47):
which ultimately ended up withunder eye surgery, um, and then,
if you followed that journey,after the under eye surgery that
was three years ago now, um,last year I started getting
swelling under the same left eyeagain, ended up seeing a
plastic oculoplastic surgeon inNashville and he did some
ultrasound guided dissolvingbecause it was still there,
(09:10):
y'all.
Filler does not just go away,like they told us, like everyone
says.
That filler, you know, get itdone every three to six months.
You know it'll naturallydissolve with time.
It doesn't Like I got thisfiller 10 years ago under my
eyes.
It's been dissolved multipletimes.
I even had surgery to remove itand it's still like coming to
(09:32):
the tissue, like so like it'sbeen fine for a year since the
doctor dissolved it last year.
But then recently, within thepast probably six weeks, I've
started having swelling under myleft eye again and I was like
what is going on?
So I talked to a physician'sassistant in Nashville who used
to work with oculoplastic and Itold her you know the whole
(09:54):
story and she was like I reallythink you should go back and
have some more ultrasound guideddissolving.
I think you still have fillerthere.
That's why it's puffy, becausemy right eye doesn't do it, it's
just my left eye and I knowit's not that bad, but we're all
our own worst critics, you know.
And so I pulled up my MRI thatI had.
In January I did a podcast whereI did a full body MRI and you
(10:15):
know I mentioned in that episodethat they still saw some
remnants of filler and I'm justlike, why will this stuff just
not break down?
It's so annoying.
But also, at the end of the day, I have an autoimmune condition
with my thyroid and you know itdoes weird things with
different procedures and um, um,foreign bodies, I guess
substances in your, in your body, even though it's supposed to
(10:37):
mimic your natural hyaluronicacid, it's just not.
It's still just not natural.
So the plan is I'm going thisweek to back to Nashville to the
oculoplastic for him to lookwith the ultrasound again and
compare it to my MRI and see ifany more has made its way to the
surface and if it has, we'regoing to dissolve some more.
So if anything is taken awayfrom this episode, just, please,
(11:00):
whatever you do obviously it'syour body do what you want.
You're autonomous.
Also, consult with a doctor.
But please, whatever you do,obviously it's your body Do what
you want.
You're autonomous, also consultwith a doctor.
But please, whatever you do,just don't get filler under your
eye, like at this point in mylife, like I wish somebody would
have shook me and been like,what are you doing?
Because I didn't even need itin the first place.
And so now it's been this 10year saga of now trying to
correct something I didn't evenneed in the first place.
(11:21):
I didn't even need in the firstplace.
But everything happens for areason.
I'm trying to stay positive.
It's made me who.
I am right.
But the reason why I wasbringing that up is I would have
never thought this aboutsomeone else.
Like I started sharing thisjourney.
I wish I would have shared itsooner, but I was just honestly
embarrassed and it's.
It is a vanity thing.
And when people you know lookat me even my friends they're
like John, it's not that bad andit's not that bad and it's and
(11:46):
it's not.
But it bothers me becausethat's what my eyes focus on
when I am in the mirror.
Plus, we know, bathroomlighting, fluorescent lighting,
is not the best.
It just makes us all, you know,pick apart ourselves anyways.
Um, but the reason why I wastalking about this is because I
started sharing this journeyabout two years ago.
I finally got the courage toshare it after I did a podcast
(12:06):
with the Huntsville mom and Iwas telling her about everything
and she was like you reallyshould share it.
So I ended up sharing the story, but when I got on, I think it
was Instagram.
This past weekend there's alocal makeup artist in town who
I've interviewed Mally.
She does MLA artistry.
She was actually sharing herjourney as well, showing that
she had some swelling under hereye, and I've just never met
(12:29):
anyone locally Sorry, my dog isbarking.
So much for me for saying she'sa good Chihuahua.
No, she really is In my podcastroom.
She's sitting where she canlook out the window and people
are walking.
So, no, she shared that she hadsome swelling under her eyes
after filler and you know itdidn't happen right away.
It happened a couple of yearslater, which is kind of what
(12:50):
happened to me, like it didn'thappen right away, it happened a
couple months later.
And then you know a lot of thetimes, if an injector is not
well versed, or they don't knowcomplications, or you know they
haven't updated their education,they may tell you well, this
isn't from the filler and minedidn't do that.
I'm just saying some may,because I did go to numerous you
know plastic surgeons to belike, hey, what is going on?
(13:17):
And some didn't believe that itcould be filler, and those were
some older you know plasticsurgeons.
And then there was some thatwere like, yeah, I see this all
the time.
It's a really hard complicationto fix and I was like great, of
course, when I do something, Ido it really well, not, and I'm
not happy that she had thatcomplication.
It's just that it made me feelgood to know that.
You know, I'm not alone in thisjourney and I'm sure other
people have not shared theirjourney, because it is kind of
(13:39):
embarrassing because you'retalking about something that's
vanity.
Now, fortunately for her, shedid dissolve all her filler and
her swelling went away and, um,me and her got to talking.
I was like cause she was likeshe's going to try to go the all
natural route and do no Botox,which is the huge trend right
now.
Um, my friend sends me stuffall the time about Botox
possibly causing strokes.
(14:00):
I don't, I'm not going to sayit can't happen, I just feel
like if that was causing it,there would be way more younger
people having strokes and again,I'm not gonna say it can't
happen, but there's got to beother things going on there
which I'm not getting in downthat rabbit hole, um.
But she said she's gonna try togo um, no Botox and stuff like
that, and I actually have beenwanting to do that.
(14:21):
We'll see, we'll see.
But face taping is a thing and Idon't know if I've talked about
face taping on this podcast yet, but I have really enjoyed face
taping lately because it reallydoes work.
Now you look crazy as hellgoing to bed, but you know it
doesn't matter for me.
I'm single, nobody's here.
So that's one positive.
(14:44):
But I get some face tape from Ithink her Instagram is
naturalfacebible.
Let me look it up real quick.
Yes, her handle on Instagram isnaturalfacebible altogether and
I purchased her face tapebecause it's Japanese face tape
and it's safe for the skin andshe goes into a lot of stuff
about how you have to be reallycareful about what kind of face
(15:06):
tape you buy.
You can't just get anything offAmazon or anything like that,
because it's not made for skin,especially delicate skin on the
face and especially under theeyes.
But like face taping, like causeI'm a side sleeper.
I've tried sleeping on my back.
I just cannot do it.
It's just not comfortable.
I can't even fall asleep inthat position.
So when you are a side sleeper,then you can get deeper lines
(15:30):
or wrinkles just because you'restagnant in a position all night
.
Now me, I don't know.
I move around a lot per my auraring and I get up probably two
to three times a night, so Idon't know.
But you can like face tapewhere your lines are on your
forehead or around your eyes,for your crow's feet, even your
nasolabial folds, and any kindof like static line that is
(15:51):
getting deeper.
You can just kind of put facetape over and you do that three
to four nights a week and thenyou let your skin breathe like I
think again, y'all consultsomebody else who's experienced
in this.
I'm just telling you myexperience, um, but yeah, so
like I've gotten into facetaping, mouth tape, I now wear a
satin bonnet to go to sleep into help my hair and my hair has
(16:14):
literally been so good, like Ihave been getting so many
compliments on my hair in thepast few months because it's
just growing, which I alsoattribute to taking Mary Ruth's
hair vitamin, that liquidvitamin that was viral there for
a while.
There was like a TikTok specialnot too long ago and so I
purchased a bunch and I reallythink that stuff helps your hair
(16:35):
grow.
Not even going to lie, but thesatin bonnet definitely helps
you from tossing and turning atnight and so that it's not as
frizzy.
But I'm telling you, I go tobed hella scary and just made me
so much better, feel so muchbetter when I was telling her
all this stuff and she was likeyou know what?
It's not about what we go tobed looking like, it's what we
wake up looking like, which I dohate that there's all this
societal pressure to stay youngand, you know, age aggressively
(16:58):
but stay young and don't doanything and do everything
natural for women and it's, youknow, a catch 22, because it's
not that way for men, because ifmen age, it's just like, wow,
you know he's.
So what is it that people sayhe's so aging?
Like fine wine, or I love me amature man and stuff like it's
(17:19):
just so crazy the differencesbetween men and women there
Speaking of I didn't evenintroduce this or say this at
the beginning of the episode,but also want to shout out and
thank everyone for reaching out.
After last week's episode I wassuper nervous about putting that
out, but it did really well.
Y'all responded really well toit.
So if you haven't listened tothat episode, definitely go
listen because I'm super proudof it.
(17:40):
It may sprinkle some of that inand out, you know, through the
next few episodes.
I don't know, we'll see.
Is there anything else that Ineed to update y'all on?
I'm trying to think.
I think that is it.
Those are the two main things Ijust really wanted to hop on
and just you know kind of babbleabout.
So if you liked this episode,you know, share it with a friend
(18:03):
, or share any of the otherepisodes with a friend, and I'll
see you next week.
Guys, until next time, bye you.
What is up everyone?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Babbles Nonsense podcast
.
Today's episode is going to beshort and sweet and it's just
going to be literally mebabbling about literal nonsense,
just stuff that has happenedover the past couple of weeks in
my life that I was like youknow what I haven't done.
A quick little update in alittle bit.
So that's what today's episodeis going to be about.
(00:20):
All right, I hope everyone ishaving a very good week.
(00:50):
It is a new month, it is may,mother's day is coming up,
spring should be around thecorner.
Um, if you live in tornadovalley I don't know, there's a
lot of different places thatpeople listen to.
Weather has been absolutelyinsane.
It's almost like for the pastseveral weekends we have had
nothing but either thunderstorms, that with crazy wind, or
(01:11):
tornado threats, and I justswear it's getting worse and
worse.
People say that global warmingis not real, but I beg to differ
.
Before all this stuff with myhouse, my next big project was
to get a tornado shelter, butobviously I don't want to keep
investing into this house untilwe kind of know what's going on.
But that is my next hugeinvestment that I'm going to do
(01:35):
is a tornado shelter.
It's a must.
Living in Alabama, tennessee, mywhole life we, you know, always
been scared of the tornadoweather and, like in more recent
years, tornado season has likeextended past April and May.
It's then also been in the fall, in like November, december,
(01:55):
which they say that's alwaysbeen tornado season, but I just
don't recall that until morerecent years.
But anyways, if you've been inthe weather, you get it, you
know, I don't know, butsomething about just getting
older to storms just get morescary.
I don't know, maybe it'sbecause when you're younger
you're not thinking about, Idon't know, dying, and when we
get older it's just like realityhits, like, oh, we're not
immortal, okay, this is what itis.
(02:18):
But anyways, last week was fun,not just kidding.
Um, no, my dog ended up havingdental surgery.
Well, she had her teeth cleanedand then she ended up with a
tooth pulled, which I kind offigured, because her breath has
been absolutely horrendouslately, like she's always had
bad breath, like her nickname isstinky breath, um, and her
(02:39):
teeth are just gross.
Like she's a Chihuahua.
And before anyone asks me,she's a great Chihuahua, just
ask any friends.
My aunt had a Chihuahua when Iwas younger, so she told me when
I got her that I had tosocialize her immediately.
So that's what I did.
I took her to any friend'shouse that had a dog, small
children, anything just in likelet everyone hold her so that
(02:59):
she did not become like thatyappy, territorial, like little
dog.
So now she just thinks thatshe's a big dog, and the only
time she really barks is like ifsomeone's coming in the front
door and I'm home.
If I'm not home like if I havelike leave a code for a guest or
something like that, or my momand anyone walks in the front
door and I am not home, shedoesn't bark.
She only barks when I'm home,which you know.
(03:21):
She's doing her job, she'sprotecting me, she's letting me
know that someone's coming inthe door, um, but anyways, um,
she's a great Chihuahua.
So if you know anything aboutChihuahuas, y'all know that they
have horrendous teeth.
Um, so she lost one of her frontteeth, like years ago, probably
almost 10 years ago Now.
It just fell out and then she'salways just had bad breath.
(03:42):
I've tried everything, from theyou know, the stuff that you
put in the water, the littlepowder you put on the food.
Nothing was working.
She doesn't do like raw hidesor any hard chewing bone or
anything like that.
She only she's very picky.
She only eats like soft treatsand stuff like that.
And, um, she also doesn'treally like water, which she is
(04:04):
not her mother's daughterbecause I love water, um, but
anyways, I took her to myfriend's sister who's a vet and
I was like I think she's goingto have to have several teeth
pulled.
I've tried looking in her mouth,oh, and before anyone says,
well, why don't you brush herteeth?
She won't let me, she won't letme.
She shakes her head, she closesher mouth, she clenches her jaw
.
She's just, she's a great dog.
(04:28):
I know it's not sounding likeit, but she's a great dog.
She just won't let me brush herteeth.
Um.
So I took her to my friend'ssister who is a vet and I was
like I think she's gonna have tohave several teeth pulled.
And, mind you, she's almost 12,she'll be 12 this year in
September and she acts like apuppy still, um, although she
has calmed down some, but theywere like, no, I think she's
only going to need one.
So they did a full exam on herand I've never gotten her teeth
(04:49):
cleaned before.
I know that's probably horribledog mom of me.
So nobody come at me, you know,if you're a dog lover.
But if you know it's, they haveto go under anesthesia.
And so me, being in the medicalfield, like it's just, it's
kind of like anxiety driven,thinking about putting my dog to
sleep Like I don't know, likeonce a year to have their teeth
(05:10):
cleaned or whatnot.
That just seems very excessivefor them to have to do that.
Plus, she's a small dog andshe's older, so I just didn't
want her.
You know, I don't know, I feelI just feel like dogs or animals
in general just processanesthesia very differently than
humans.
But she was hilarious.
So, because this was my friend'ssister, she took, she took a
(05:31):
photo after she woke up fromanesthesia and her eyes were
like bugging out of her head.
Now it's not her typical vetthat I take her to, but I wanted
her to go to my friend's sister, since I trusted her and I knew
like she is in good hands Notthat she wasn't in good hands
with the vet I currently use,but I just knew her.
So it just felt safer.
I don't know, I guess y'allcould relate to that, if you, if
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you know what I'm talking about.
But, um, I took her there butshe used to be her vet a long
time ago and then I I justcouldn't keep doing the drive
where she was at, so we hadswitched to a new vet because my
friend went to a new vet.
Anyways, this is getting longand drawn out, but they ended up
finding a heart murmur on her.
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So we do have to kind of watchher for that.
But she said it's not bad, Ijust need to watch it.
But of course, if you knowanything about heart and teeth
like you have, this is forhumans too.
You have to, you know, be onantibiotics.
You have to be careful when youhave a heart murmur or any like
any kind of heart conditions,when you're talking about
pulling teeth, cleaning teeth,stuff like that, just because
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bacteria can go straight fromthe teeth to the heart so you
can end up with endocarditis orsomething like that, which is an
infection in the heart.
So she's been on antibiotics.
Thankfully she has not had anydiarrhea, thank the Lord.
Um, but she was just hilariousafter anesthesia she was like it
was also hair wash day for me,so I came home to like wash my
hair and she would not lay downwithout me.
But she was falling asleep withher tongue out of her mouth
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standing up and it was just thefunniest thing.
And, like in the car on the wayhome, she was falling asleep
with her mouth open and hertongue hanging out and I was
just like it's just funnywatching dogs on anesthesia.
But she did great.
She only worked.
You know, she got one toothpulled.
She does have a little heartmurmur.
And then I was reading a chartwhile I was at the vet and you
know how people think that dogyears are like seven years.
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So we're always like oh, justmultiply a dog's current age,
like what we would considertheir human age, by seven and
that's their dog age.
Well, according to this chart,that is not how it goes.
I think I only like, likememorize like a couple of them,
because I was looking.
So she's currently 11.
So according to this chart,she's 60.
She's not 77 like we allthought.
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And then, like, when she turns12, she'll just go up by four
years, so 60, she'll be 64 thisyear in dog years.
And then when they turn onebecause it's also based on
weight, like there's, like thischart's like based on weight,
and their eight, like what wewould consider their human years
and so, based on her weight andher breed size, like when she
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was one, she was 15.
So like it's different in ages.
So it wasn't like she was oneand she was seven.
Like when she was one, she was15.
So like it's different in ages.
So it wasn't like she was oneand she was seven, it was she's
one, she's 15, and then theyears go like by seven, and then
they go by three, then they goby four.
It was.
It was just crazy, because Iwas just like that is not what
we were taught.
We were taught that dogs age byseven years, but whatever,
she's younger than I thought,but she's still geriatric, but
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it was just, it was cute and itwas funny.
I did share a photo on myInstagram the other day about it
and everyone laughedhysterically and I loved it.
Um, anyways, um, some some otherlittle updates.
I know I haven't updated on myeye in a while.
Um, so if you followed thatjourney about my under eye
filler that I got when I waslike, um, I don't know, I I want
to say 27.
So 10 years ago now that had tobe dissolved multiple times,
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which ultimately ended up withunder eye surgery, um, and then,
if you followed that journey,after the under eye surgery that
was three years ago now, um,last year I started getting
swelling under the same left eyeagain, ended up seeing a
plastic oculoplastic surgeon inNashville and he did some
ultrasound guided dissolvingbecause it was still there,
(09:10):
y'all.
Filler does not just go away,like they told us, like everyone
says.
That filler, you know, get itdone every three to six months.
You know it'll naturallydissolve with time.
It doesn't Like I got thisfiller 10 years ago under my
eyes.
It's been dissolved multipletimes.
I even had surgery to remove itand it's still like coming to
(09:32):
the tissue, like so like it'sbeen fine for a year since the
doctor dissolved it last year.
But then recently, within thepast probably six weeks, I've
started having swelling under myleft eye again and I was like
what is going on?
So I talked to a physician'sassistant in Nashville who used
to work with oculoplastic and Itold her you know the whole
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story and she was like I reallythink you should go back and
have some more ultrasound guideddissolving.
I think you still have fillerthere.
That's why it's puffy, becausemy right eye doesn't do it, it's
just my left eye and I knowit's not that bad, but we're all
our own worst critics, you know.
And so I pulled up my MRI thatI had.
In January I did a podcast whereI did a full body MRI and you
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know I mentioned in that episodethat they still saw some
remnants of filler and I'm justlike, why will this stuff just
not break down?
It's so annoying.
But also, at the end of the day, I have an autoimmune condition
with my thyroid and you know itdoes weird things with
different procedures and um, um,foreign bodies, I guess
substances in your, in your body, even though it's supposed to
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mimic your natural hyaluronicacid, it's just not.
It's still just not natural.
So the plan is I'm going thisweek to back to Nashville to the
oculoplastic for him to lookwith the ultrasound again and
compare it to my MRI and see ifany more has made its way to the
surface and if it has, we'regoing to dissolve some more.
So if anything is taken awayfrom this episode, just, please,
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whatever you do obviously it'syour body do what you want.
You're autonomous.
Also, consult with a doctor.
But please, whatever you do,obviously it's your body Do what
you want.
You're autonomous, also consultwith a doctor.
But please, whatever you do,just don't get filler under your
eye, like at this point in mylife, like I wish somebody would
have shook me and been like,what are you doing?
Because I didn't even need itin the first place.
And so now it's been this 10year saga of now trying to
correct something I didn't evenneed in the first place.
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I didn't even need in the firstplace.
But everything happens for areason.
I'm trying to stay positive.
It's made me who.
I am right.
But the reason why I wasbringing that up is I would have
never thought this aboutsomeone else.
Like I started sharing thisjourney.
I wish I would have shared itsooner, but I was just honestly
embarrassed and it's.
It is a vanity thing.
And when people you know lookat me even my friends they're
like John, it's not that bad andit's not that bad and it's and
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it's not.
But it bothers me becausethat's what my eyes focus on
when I am in the mirror.
Plus, we know, bathroomlighting, fluorescent lighting,
is not the best.
It just makes us all, you know,pick apart ourselves anyways.
Um, but the reason why I wastalking about this is because I
started sharing this journeyabout two years ago.
I finally got the courage toshare it after I did a podcast
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with the Huntsville mom and Iwas telling her about everything
and she was like you reallyshould share it.
So I ended up sharing the story, but when I got on, I think it
was Instagram.
This past weekend there's alocal makeup artist in town who
I've interviewed Mally.
She does MLA artistry.
She was actually sharing herjourney as well, showing that
she had some swelling under hereye, and I've just never met
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anyone locally Sorry, my dog isbarking.
So much for me for saying she'sa good Chihuahua.
No, she really is In my podcastroom.
She's sitting where she canlook out the window and people
are walking.
So, no, she shared that she hadsome swelling under her eyes
after filler and you know itdidn't happen right away.
It happened a couple of yearslater, which is kind of what
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happened to me, like it didn'thappen right away, it happened a
couple months later.
And then you know a lot of thetimes, if an injector is not
well versed, or they don't knowcomplications, or you know they
haven't updated their education,they may tell you well, this
isn't from the filler and minedidn't do that.
I'm just saying some may,because I did go to numerous you
know plastic surgeons to belike, hey, what is going on?
(13:17):
And some didn't believe that itcould be filler, and those were
some older you know plasticsurgeons.
And then there was some thatwere like, yeah, I see this all
the time.
It's a really hard complicationto fix and I was like great, of
course, when I do something, Ido it really well, not, and I'm
not happy that she had thatcomplication.
It's just that it made me feelgood to know that.
You know, I'm not alone in thisjourney and I'm sure other
people have not shared theirjourney, because it is kind of
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embarrassing because you'retalking about something that's
vanity.
Now, fortunately for her, shedid dissolve all her filler and
her swelling went away and, um,me and her got to talking.
I was like cause she was likeshe's going to try to go the all
natural route and do no Botox,which is the huge trend right
now.
Um, my friend sends me stuffall the time about Botox
possibly causing strokes.
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I don't, I'm not going to sayit can't happen, I just feel
like if that was causing it,there would be way more younger
people having strokes and again,I'm not gonna say it can't
happen, but there's got to beother things going on there
which I'm not getting in downthat rabbit hole, um.
But she said she's gonna try togo um, no Botox and stuff like
that, and I actually have beenwanting to do that.
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We'll see, we'll see.
But face taping is a thing and Idon't know if I've talked about
face taping on this podcast yet, but I have really enjoyed face
taping lately because it reallydoes work.
Now you look crazy as hellgoing to bed, but you know it
doesn't matter for me.
I'm single, nobody's here.
So that's one positive.
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But I get some face tape from Ithink her Instagram is
naturalfacebible.
Let me look it up real quick.
Yes, her handle on Instagram isnaturalfacebible altogether and
I purchased her face tapebecause it's Japanese face tape
and it's safe for the skin andshe goes into a lot of stuff
about how you have to be reallycareful about what kind of face
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tape you buy.
You can't just get anything offAmazon or anything like that,
because it's not made for skin,especially delicate skin on the
face and especially under theeyes.
But like face taping, like causeI'm a side sleeper.
I've tried sleeping on my back.
I just cannot do it.
It's just not comfortable.
I can't even fall asleep inthat position.
So when you are a side sleeper,then you can get deeper lines
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or wrinkles just because you'restagnant in a position all night
.
Now me, I don't know.
I move around a lot per my auraring and I get up probably two
to three times a night, so Idon't know.
But you can like face tapewhere your lines are on your
forehead or around your eyes,for your crow's feet, even your
nasolabial folds, and any kindof like static line that is
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getting deeper.
You can just kind of put facetape over and you do that three
to four nights a week and thenyou let your skin breathe like I
think again, y'all consultsomebody else who's experienced
in this.
I'm just telling you myexperience, um, but yeah, so
like I've gotten into facetaping, mouth tape, I now wear a
satin bonnet to go to sleep into help my hair and my hair has
(16:14):
literally been so good, like Ihave been getting so many
compliments on my hair in thepast few months because it's
just growing, which I alsoattribute to taking Mary Ruth's
hair vitamin, that liquidvitamin that was viral there for
a while.
There was like a TikTok specialnot too long ago and so I
purchased a bunch and I reallythink that stuff helps your hair
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grow.
Not even going to lie, but thesatin bonnet definitely helps
you from tossing and turning atnight and so that it's not as
frizzy.
But I'm telling you, I go tobed hella scary and just made me
so much better, feel so muchbetter when I was telling her
all this stuff and she was likeyou know what?
It's not about what we go tobed looking like, it's what we
wake up looking like, which I dohate that there's all this
societal pressure to stay youngand, you know, age aggressively
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but stay young and don't doanything and do everything
natural for women and it's, youknow, a catch 22, because it's
not that way for men, because ifmen age, it's just like, wow,
you know he's.
So what is it that people sayhe's so aging?
Like fine wine, or I love me amature man and stuff like it's
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just so crazy the differencesbetween men and women there
Speaking of I didn't evenintroduce this or say this at
the beginning of the episode,but also want to shout out and
thank everyone for reaching out.
After last week's episode I wassuper nervous about putting that
out, but it did really well.
Y'all responded really well toit.
So if you haven't listened tothat episode, definitely go
listen because I'm super proudof it.
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It may sprinkle some of that inand out, you know, through the
next few episodes.
I don't know, we'll see.
Is there anything else that Ineed to update y'all on?
I'm trying to think.
I think that is it.
Those are the two main things Ijust really wanted to hop on
and just you know kind of babbleabout.
So if you liked this episode,you know, share it with a friend
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, or share any of the otherepisodes with a friend, and I'll
see you next week.
Guys, until next time, bye you.
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