Weekly Blessing - Week 19

So I have the distinct pleasure of having the face of a 15 year old in my 30s, but not in the good "wow you look incredibly young" kind of way,  rather the "ummmm someone please pass the oxyclean kind of way". 


My face has many ups and downs of the zit / pimple / acneous variety. Sometimes it is manageable, sometimes it is not, always it is frustrating. Come on, HOW old am I now??? :-) 


My most recent battle is with this monsterous two-headed dragon on my forehead AND a yuck-o thing on my neck. The thing on my neck is what sparked yesterday's chain of events. I went to my aesthetician and while chatting about my face said, by the way can you look at that thing on my neck - is that a zit? or something else because I have never had one there. 


She looked and said, it could be but let me grab a nurse to come check it out (she is located within a dermatologists office).  Nurse enters, looks, says yeah that's a cyst, let's see if we can get you in with the doctor. Now, I try very hard not to be, but I do in fact have hypochondriac moments - I looked at Trish (my aesthetician) and said, ummm cyst?  She assured me it was fine - they'd check it out - then I would know it was okay and be on my way. 


In with the doctor I go - she checks out my face. It is agreed I have issues (of the face, we left my other issues off the table for now) ha ha. I also have a cyst - GROSS. She has some needles full of Kenalog steroid, which I am pretty sure is the same thing my old dog got for his allergies. Said dog allergy medicine goes in my cyst, and the two-headed monster on my forehead. It does not hurt terribly bad, I ask for a pain comparison, i.e. so, just wondering, is this what getting Botox feels like?? You know strictly for wonderment, not like I would ever inject my face in say like 10 years when it starts to sag on me. (dear face: please, oh please do not sag on me). 


Less than 24-hours later I have a new regimen of pills, and creams, and a whole lot of products I can no longer put on my face. BUT I also have a VERY reduced neck bump and my face seriously looks better - or maybe I just want it to so I think it does. Let's just say it does and call it good. :-) 


The blessing - well obviously it's not the yuck-o bump on my neck, or maybe it is because I would not have seen the doctor otherwise. For me, it was the whole chain of events though - a) they took my insurance, b) I saw a doctor in like 10 minutes with no scheduled appointment and I had never seen her before c) I got some face shots that seems to be working in an awesomely wonderful way and most importantly -  I have the MOST WONDERFUL aesthetician in the WORLD. Trish is seriously the nicest woman - I am SO SO SO grateful for her.  


So there you have it, a possible TMI post about my face. What can I say - blessings come about in not-pretty ways sometimes. :-)