It looks way more glamorous when the real housewives do it...

I spent my afternoon getting Botox-ed today. (Can you make Botox into a verb? Oh, well. Looks like I just did.)

You read correctly - Botox. To save you the trouble of scrolling down, yes, I'm only 24. So am I just getting an early start?

I wish.

About 8 weeks ago I had a little surgery. Long story short, I had a tumor on my neck. It was benign, but it was growing, so out it had to come, leaving me with a sweet scar (like, a pirate swashbuckling kind of scar. I look like I got slashed. :) ), a paralyzed vocal cord (read: permanent laryngitis), and something called First Bite Syndrome.

Save yourself the Google search. I've spent hours looking it up, and there's really nothing to find. It's not even on WebMD. What kind of syndrome is that???

Basically, it hurts when I eat. Or drink. Or brush my teeth. Or cough...you get the picture. When I talked to my doctor about it, he had one suggestion for how to fix it - Botox. Today was my second injection, and, honestly? I think it works. Apparently it was originally used to control muscle spasms and treat pain before the Ladies Who Lunch started having their Botox and Bagels parties and using it to erase any sign of aging from their faces.

Curious about it?

It actually isn't that bad. I was surprised. They put on a numbing cream first and the needle is TINY. The whole process takes less than five minutes, and I don't have any soreness or bruising or anything afterward.

Assuming this actually works, I'll be hitting the needle every three months or so for the rest of my life. There is no way I will EVER find a wrinkle on my left jaw line. :)

After discovering that the process is much less intense than I had thought, I'm now looking into the future. Would I use it to prevent wrinkles? Would you??? I'm curious to hear what you think.

Happy Thursday!
Elle