I'll Have What She's Having

While sitting in my doctor's office skimming a medical publication, I read an interesting article that said plastic surgery was rebounding after being hit hard by the recession.  The writer did not live in Alpharetta, Georgia. I do not believe anything ever is allowed to lag, sag, or fall behind in Alpharetta.  Alpharetta has the most perfect people in the world living there. No doubt some of them are that way by birth. The article stated that 13.l million procedures were performed in the U.S. in 20l0. A few of those were outside Alpharetta.  Topping the list of surgical procedures was breast augmentations at almost 300,000.  Silicone implants accounted for 60% of those procedures.  Face lifts have "sagged" behind with no growth reported since 2007.  Body contouring procedures  (making your butt bigger and your boobs lifted)  showed marked improvement, in more ways than one.  There were 11.6 million minimally invasive procedures done with, of course, botox leading the way at 5.4 million injections.  Soft tissue fillers came in second with l.8 million lucky participants.  Mostly done to pucker up your kisser.  The big surprise for me was the number of people having their calf size increased. Who would have thought it?  I can't say I wouldn't like to have all these things done, I can just say, I can't afford to and I'm chicken.  The next page was an article devoted to the pharmaceutical industries darling, Viagra.  Interestingly it was concerning  whether Obama Care would cover Viagra for our increasingly large boomer population.  England's government ran health care system spent 58 million covering Viagra during 2008.  That figure had tripled in 6 years.  In 2006 General Motors generous health coverage spent l7million making sure its retires were "up".  I am further amazed.  I turned the page to read that the Alzheimer's (ALZ.org) Organization was showing a marked decease in availability of funding for research and grants. The recession had made a significant impact on research on this and many other illness that are sure to plague the boomers.  About this time the receptionist called me in and I did not get to finish the rest of the publication but I did come home completely convinced that within the next 20 years there should be an extremely large elderly population with perky boobs and nice erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them. I feel better already.