Craft MD

I poke people for a living. Figured it was my turn.
That’s 20 EuroThreads around my own eyes — the Bleph line, PDO
(polydioxanone), the same suture material that’s been used in surgery for decades.
Five zones, four threads each, a mix of Smooth (25mm) and Twist (38mm).
What they actually do: not much on day one. The threads dissolve over a few
months, but while they’re in there they nudge your own collagen and elastin to
rebuild along the path they took. Translation — softer crow’s-feet, less crepey
lower-lid skin, a little more snap to the tissue around the eye. Subtle, real, and very
much not a facelift.

The bruising is the part nobody posts. A couple of days, some sunglasses, you live.
The rule I don’t break: nothing goes in your face that hasn’t gone in mine first.
EuroThreads are FDA-cleared as a medical device — not a magic wand, just collagen
biology in trained hands. The eye area is delicate; this is not a DIY zone

Some of our classmates are dropping their kids off at college dorms this fall. Andersen and I are negotiating kindergarten to elementary school.

Some of our peers are starting to look like their own dads did at this age. Some of us got handed a completely different deck — and we're sitting here on the couch laughing about it.

We were the latchkey generation. Raised by no one. Told we'd be the slackers. Instead, we ended up the bridge — the last people who remember a world without the internet and the ones who built half of it. Parenting late, aging weirdly well, and still figuring it out in real time.

Matt said it best tonight: at twenty-five we thought fifty looked one specific way. It doesn't. Fifty looks like whatever you decide to do with the next thirty years.
So if you're in your own kitchen tonight wondering if you missed the timeline — you didn't. There is no timeline. We're Gen X. We never followed one anyway.

When I was their age, the only "trip" my family took was the layaway plan at the KMart back-to-school sale. Now the boys are stretched out in a private cabana like they invented leisure, and I'm over here doing the math on how far that is from where I started.
I never want them to take it for granted. I also never want them to know the particular stress of a layaway ticket. Both things can be true.
We movin' on up. They'll never know what it cost — and that was the whole point.

100% Scandinavian, meet vaguely-ethnic-and-thriving.
He's dressed for a solar eclipse. I'm dressed for a tan I already have.
Annoyingly, the man in the SPF hazmat suit is the one doing it right — and I'm the one who'll have to admit it at a consult someday. Love of my life, factor 100.

Everyone knows PRP. Far fewer have seen this — and where I put it.
What you're watching is a CGF membrane — concentrated growth factor — placed beneath the SMAS flap during a deep-plane face and neck lift. It isn't a product off a shelf. It's spun from the patient's own blood the morning of surgery, with nothing added.
PRP vs. PRF vs. CGF — the actual difference. PRP is liquid: platelets suspended in plasma, injected, and largely dispersed within hours. CGF is the latest generation of autologous platelet concentrate. By spinning whole blood through a varying-speed centrifugation cycle rather than a fixed one, the fibrin crosslinks into a denser, tougher, handleable membrane — and that matrix carries a richer reservoir of growth factors than either PRP or PRF: TGF-β1 (highest by concentration), PDGF, VEGF, EGF, and FGF-2. Translation: more of the signals that drive new blood-vessel formation, collagen synthesis, and tissue repair, held in a scaffold that actually stays where you place it.
Why sub-SMAS, and why during a deep-plane lift? The deep plane is where this operation does its structural work — the SMAS and platysma are repositioned, not just the skin. That same plane is freshly dissected, well-vascularized, and closed over: the ideal location to seat a slow-release biologic. The membrane behaves like a scaffold — it doesn't vanish like an injection. It releases growth factors over days, recruits the body's own repair and stem cells into the healing field, and there's mechanistic evidence that CGF nudges the early macrophage response toward regeneration rather than prolonged inflammation. In a flap procedure, anything that supports perfusion and calms early inflammation is working in your favor.

I like my marshmallows the way I like a crème brûlée: aggressively torched and non-negotiable.
My son — a food critic I did not hire — blew mine out, looked me dead in the eye, said "Daddy, it's burnt," and walked away.
Already running a one-star review operation.
Settle it for us: charred or toasted? 🔥 Drop your side below. Wrong answers will be noted and remembered.