Nah, that would be en-tit-led **Rage against Anyone within Shouting Distance. **
Like "The Look[sup]TM[/sup] did ya? 
Eve we’ve never met but I’ve seen a couple of pics and I think you are beautiful. Nothing about you reminds me of the Lusitania. You look great.
Oh, and about that pencil test, those of us who were blessed by the boob fairy at a young age have been flunking that thing for a while. I flunked when I was still in middle school. Gravity works.
You think I would let the crappy photos see the light of day?
Oh, well, I guess the world needs us Imposing Dowagers. If I got plastic surgery, I couldn’t drape pearls over my stately monobosom and glare haughtily through a lorgnette, going, “well, really!”
What price vanity. The $20K estimate sounds a tad high - unless you’re under the mistaken impression only plastic surgeons on Park or Madison Avenue (who I might add are the same crowd who turned Jocelyn Wildenstein into a refugee from Cats) can do a quality rhinoplasty & neck lift.
If you are seriously considering have work done, I can make a call and get you a free consult with this Gold Coaster. According to my Mom, who’s worked with him for 20+ years, he does great tits, noses and lids.
Well, I’ve seen you in person and I don’t think you look anything at all like the Lusitania. Or any ship, for that matter. You have a lovely nose.
Hell, I have two lovely noses!
You and I even took the Gen’l. Slocum together, so you got to see me steaming majestically up the East River . . .
Eve, I’d recommend you steam a northerly course to avoid German U-boats.
For those of us who needed to be reminded of what it looked like - The Lusitania
I want this. I want this so bad. I have a huge overbite that 4 years of orthodontia and head gear did not correct. I have no chin–people have come up to me and said, “Your face looks weird…oh, you have no chin!” My ENT said my overbite is responsable for a lot of the breathing broblems I’ve been having (when paired with my inflamed lingual tonsil, I have a very small passage in the back of my throat–he was surprised that I don’t have more problems swallowing.
So to get all that fixed, plus possibly getting rid of my allergies? I want this.
What was the recovery like?
Funny, for all my self-esteem issues, I can’t think of anything (facially) that I’d get plastic surgery. Not that I think I look beautiful, just that I can’t think of anything that would improve it. The only thing I can think of, I guess, is possibly what my ex-husband affectionately dubbed my “second nose”. I can’t even think of how to describe it - just a puffiness where my forehead and nose meet. But I wouldn’t even get rid of that, I don’t think.
Below the neck, though, if I had the funds and was reasonably comfortable that it was safe, I’d definitely do lipo or a gastric bypass.
Hell, I fail a flashlight test!
Eve, One of your worries can be eliminated. Rhinoplasty is ideally done with local anesthesia.
I had a large bone spur on the left side of my nose, making it look like I had crossed noses. The surgery took about 2 hours. I can tell you the jokes that were told in OR, but they were all pretty lame.
Eve, please leave that beautiful nose alone! If everyone with a great nose rushes in to have it surgically chopped down to Barbie proportions, the world will forget what a truly memorable profile looks like.
And there will be one fewer potential member for the Nice Nose[sup]tm[/sup] club I hope to start.
I’ve been told by dentists and orthodontists that the only way to save my four frontmost upper teeth is to have my upper jaw moved forward about 5mm or so. It sounded like a pretty awful operation to me. Though I’m overweight, so maybe being on a liquid diet for a while would help take off some pounds!
I’m very interested in how your doctor managed to talk you insurance into paying for it. When I had full dental and medical coverage, dental wouldn’t cover it because it’s major surgery and medical wouldn’t cover it because they don’t care if my teeth fall out.
What part of the country are you in? That might effect both cost and insurance coverage.
I share AwSnappity’s interest in what the recovery was like.
You can email me if you’d rather (addy in profile).
plnnr, thy name shall be Kirk Douglas!
I have this New York Jewish schnozz that’s been broken twice, which has led to added prominence on an already prominent nose. I’d like to get the bump shaved down a bit and the deviated septum fixed, but honestly, that’s a minor issue, and it would serve more to help me breathe through my nose a little easier than as an aesthetic fix. I’m pretty happy with how I look. 
Adam
I’ve not wanted plastic surgery myself, but many people have tried to talk me into getting my breasts reduced.
Eve, I think you should not have plastic surgery. I think you look great. Even if you did not, as you realize, one of the benefits of age is being able to be convincingly matronly and imposing when one wants. The purpose of plastic surgery seems to be to get rid of anything unusual or imposing. There are risks of complications, including death. And there is always a risk of looking worse or just looking silly.
Did you ever find a good ice crusher?
[hijack] Yes, a Hamilton Beach Snowman Ice Shaver–it’s brilliant! I’ve been able to give up ice cream in favor of homemade sno-cones with fruit juice and soda. [/hijack]
Someone very close to me had a head job done - eyes, neck, and lift. She looks great. No complaints. She doesn’t look that different to me, but she thinks she looks fab so that’s all that matters. It really has changed her life.
She did not, however, change her rather distinctive and large nose, thank goodness. She was aiming for distinguished and classy and rested, not cute. 50+ doesn’t do cute very well anyway, IMO.
She went for neck, but the surgeon tried to talk her into eyes instead - he said only you look at your neck first. Everyone else looks at your eyes. She compromised by doing both - eyes for maximum change and neck for herself.
The recovery was brutal for 48 hours - you need fetch and carry servants and you’re all oooozy and out of it. And it is dangerous - they put screws in your head to attach your skin to!!
If I had the money, I’d get the whole “Extreme Makeover” experience. Lots of little irritating things I would like fixed. Not things I was ever teased about or felt terrible about, just things I think could use a little tweaking.
The one thing I will likely get done is a much needed breast reduction. I’ve been approved in the past (for provincial health care to pay) but the timing wasn’t right. I wanted to breast feed and the surgeon told me that even if it was possible (which of course, can’t be guaranteed), I would need to supplement with formula to ensure the baby was receiving enough nutrition. As well, he told me that after pregnancy, sometimes a repeat operation is needed. No way I’m going through it twice.