But how much more wonderful is it that my husband of 28yrs loves me even more today, after gravity, 3 kids, several surgery scars, a ton of grey hair, and more arguments than I can count?

She translated those lessons into redrawing lips lost to cancer, recoloring skin grafts to match the surrounding areas, and disguising surgery scars.

Removing the scar is one treatment option; however, it may result in more severe consequences: the probability that the resulting surgery scar will also become a keloid is high, usually greater than 50%.

He wasn't expected to live beyond age 25, and when I saw him at age 14 or 15, his stomach was latticed with surgery scars.

Kanell did remove his shoulder pads after 30 minutes of practice because the equipment was chafing on the small surgery scar under his right nipple.

With aging, weight gain and as surgery scars soften, patients may need follow-up treatments.

The tiny tattoos from radiation treatment won't disappear but they usually lighten over time; surgery scars will fade depending on your skin type.

She said he showed her two surgery scars, one near the bridge of his nose and one on his back with the holes from the stitches still visible.

Sallow flesh hung off the bones of his face above his scrawny neck with its turkey-flaps and puckered skin, like a surgery scar, around his Adam's apple.

"I'm not Lyndon Johnson," he said in a joking reference to the former President, who had proudly displayed his long abdominal surgery scar for photographers.