Consider this a break from my break...and therefore healthy....

Okay, so there I am last night trying to fall asleep...so I'm flipping through the channels to find something soothing to doze off to, and I stumble across the evening showing of Oprah...It's the Presley women talking about something or other...and they cut to a close up of Priscilla.

EGAD!

The woman looks like some sort of Bride of Frankenstein. Her lips have been twisted into a permanent pout that looks like a stitch slipped here or there and she has so much collagen injected I fear her lips will pop. She also has that "face-lift neck" thing with the very tight line of skin gathered just below the jaw line that looks like you could unzip her.

I thought the whole point of plastic surgery was for it to be invisible, for someone simply to look younger. More and more, I'm seeing these so over-worked women (not so many men, yet, Michael Jackson notwithstanding) who no longer resemble a living creature, but some undead castoff from that not so great movie "Death Becomes Her."

It makes me sad...and repulsed. Do they really think this looks better than aging gracefully?

Maybe more folks than I imagine have had work done, but very few stars take on this frightening Melanie Griffith, Michael Jackson, Priscilla Presley, Joan Rivers freak show look. The scary thing is, I've started to see more of them on the street here in Chicago...

I keep thinking of Katherine Helmond in "Brazil" with all those skin stretchers and I fear we are already there.

What does it say about us that some seniors have to choose between drugs and food, and some are getting volume discounts on Botox injections?