Patty Rourke:  

Who am I really? Now you ask me this as I've lived 56 years on this planet? My mom once told me that you are who you are no matter how old you become. You retain your essence even though your packaging becomes saggy and wrinkled...how sad is that? I mean, the saggy and wrinkled part? However, it is something that nobody gets out of...unless you have a few bucks to nip and tuck...yes, I had a few extra bucks awhile back, and I decided to get a little botox around the eyes and Radiesse(?) around my mouth. Well, the mouth came out fine. The doctor tried to sew my lips together when I had my eyes closed so as not to watch the needle coming at me, but fortunately I opened my eyes just in time when he was knotting the thread and I pulled my brass knuckles out of my purse (that was hanging close by on the chair), and without having to use them (lucky for him although he does possess the skills to repair what those brass knuckles would've done to him), I demanded that he find his seam-ripper and remove the stitches immediately! The truth is that this was the first time I ever did something like this and wouldn't you know it that he made my left eyebrow lift up at the end? The right one was fine but the left one? I had to put my glasses on anytime my girls came to see me because if they knew that through my vanity I got messed up, I'd never hear the end of it. Plus it cost me good money damn it! I returned to his office soon after and he injected a little more, at no expense to me of course, and brought that baby back in line with the other one! That's my luck. That's always been my luck and thank God he gave me an extra dose of humor when he handed me over t...Expand for more