So is the Great Wattle Hypothesis proven? Did the Pricey Cream earn its keep durimg the 16-week experiment? 8 weeks right side, 8 weeks left and right side.
First, the baseline chart, or Wattle Through the Ages.
Here is the photographic benchmark, week 1 for the 16 week time period.
And here is the result after the full 16 weeks of treatment.
Yes. It looks just exactly the same. Don’t be thrown by what looks like a jawline; that’s a hair. The lighting might be better but the profile tells the tale.
However, I realized I’m going to have that profile eternally and it is the least of my issues. Halfway through I did some full frontal wattle shots, and I think I do see improvements, mainly on my-right-side-your-left that got the double dose of treatment.
8 weeks in:
16 weeks in:
Or chin lowered, ugh, 8 weeks in:
Then chin lowered, ugh, 16 weeks in.
That’s probably the most encouraging one. It still reminds me of Mom, who fought so hard all her life to hide her tracheotomy scar from the iron lung, and then found that at 65 God gives us all tracheotomy scars.
Is it doing something? Yes. Is it doing enough? I don’t know. No doubt there’s an endpoint where only so much can be done.