The Beauty and the Beast

Dr. Noriega could not comprehend why Amanda was once again in his clinic. She had undergone 27 nip tucks from one extreme to the other and any idiot could see that she was looking more and more like a monster and not the beauty she once was. Amanda had been the wife of the once famous and now dead Victor Sorensen of the 1950’s. Loaded with money and plenty of where to spend it, Victor could not bring himself to seeing his precious Amanda all cut up after that terrible car crash on that cold January day back in 1979. She was only 28, full of beauty and now she looked horrendous. Victor called Dr. Noriega and asked for his services. Noriega performed six reconstructive surgeries on Amanda’s face and finally in 1982 he told her and Victor that the reconstruction was complete.

Amanda saw differences in her looks, and she liked what she saw. She was so impressed that she came back for more, and more, and more. Doctors to the stars do not ask too many questions, especially when the patients have plenty of money to spend. Noriega performed so many operations that he lost the count. Eventually he told Amanda that that was it, he would no longer perform any more operations on her.

By now, Amanda had lost all her facial nerve movements and was looking more like a stiff on a wax museum. Amanda went from Noriega to other plastic surgeons. They all turned down her requests. Eventually she had to settle for some unknown quack in Miami who did the surgery in his “Not quite ready for prime time” facility. Amanda went into cardiac arrest on that filthy facility and died before the ambulance got there. A sad ending to the tragic life of a beautiful woman. Dead on a table and looking like an unrecognizable beast.