56 Year Fighting Back the Signs of Age

I have spent the last 17 years focusing all my energies, time and money on helping my daughter maximize her potential. It is finally time to start on myself.

I have started on the Korean 10 step program for my skin and the results were wonderful but it let me to want to even out my skin tone. So a trip to the West Institute in Bethesda, Md and after a consultation on decided on a fraxel treatment

I went in today. I was nervous as heck after reading all the reviews on here. They put numbing cream on my face for 40 minutes and gave me a pain pill (tramadol). Then they added another layer of numbing cream for 20 more minutes.

The treatment isn't comfortable but I handled it. Let's say that I am a big baby and don't react well to pain. Mostly the part that she did feels like you burned yourself badly. They blow cold air on your face which helps but I was wiggling and squeezing the stress ball.

After the procedure, they did a light therapy treatment for 15 minutes to speed up healing. They also hand you the air hose and I was blowing cold air on my face.

Finally they remove the eye guards, then slather three different creams on that I get to take home

Once I got home, I mixed up cellerate Rx powdered wound care with aloe Vera and spreed it all over my face. The burning sensation stopped immediately. This is a product that is something we have access to because my husband invested in the company. If this helps, I will pass on the info to my dermatologist.

Well sad so good. I washed my face and then applied the moisturizing product recommended. Second step was mixing cellerateRX with aloe Vera moisturizer. This stops the burning feeling immediately.

I slept with all that on and some looking like this.

No pain but I can't stand the texture of my skin. I am counting the moments until this starts sloughing off. I follow my 10 step but add multiple layers of moisturizer as my skin soaks it up as soon as I put it on.

I don't look that horrible but I sure don't look very good yet.