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Well, I got carved on pretty good
dheffley
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He cut it out this morning and buck-stitched me back together. Although it was only about 1/4" diameter on the surface, it was the size of a quarter below the skin.
The good news is it hadn't gone through the skin yet, so the prognosis is good. He wants to review my records with my Oncologist before deciding if any follow up treatments will be needed, meanwhile, I have 18 stitches to remind me that if I have a place that won't heal, I need to get it looked at.
The good news is it hadn't gone through the skin yet, so the prognosis is good. He wants to review my records with my Oncologist before deciding if any follow up treatments will be needed, meanwhile, I have 18 stitches to remind me that if I have a place that won't heal, I need to get it looked at.
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Thank God you ran into that doc yesterday.
That sounds good, all in all.
Thank God you ran into that doc yesterday.
Yep, he has to protect those of us who are too hard headed to take care of ourselves.[;)]
Glad he was able to successfully remove it and apparently had clear margins.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
So one day he was going to show some land to a doctor from Atlanta, this guy had flown in in his own Cessna.
The two were chit chatting on the runway, hadn't even gotten into the car yet, when the doc started asking our tenant some medical questions.
The doc told him that he needed to go to the Asheville hospital immediately.
Turned out the doc was a liver specialist, our tenant's liver was shot and he was at death's door.
He was sent by ambulance down to Duke and they gave him a liver transplant.
Meeting that doc at the airport saved his life.
I'm glad you'll be o.k. That is the important thing.
Thanks guys. It didn't hurt very much until about a hour ago, and now it's hurting pretty badly!
The lidocaine is wearing off.
You won't know how bad (or good) the tumor is until the pathologist's report comes back. That should take a few days (at most).
Assuming it is a melanoma, and not something else, the thicker the tumor, the worse the prognosis with tumors thicker than 1mm having some chance of spreading.
glade everything went ok.
[:)]
dang danny you need to start taking better care of yourself [:0]
glade everything went ok.
[:)]
Don't know what I could have done to prevent this one.
now shes nagging me about one on my arm!
welding burn that still looks about a week old after around 3 years
if i know her she will have made me an appointment before the week is out
I guess I'm luckier than I have a right to be. A while back the wife had a little sore pop up on her right ear. Ugly little thing. She's one of these people you can't get to the doctor at gunpoint. I finally laid down the law and gave her five days to heal up or she was going to the doctor. It got a white scab over it and really didn't look so bad. She tried to cancel going to the doctor. I told her to get in the truck. She pulled the scab off and showed me how pretty it was then. I told her to get in the truck.
Sure enough, the doctor said it was cancer. He said if you just had to have a cancer, her's was the least dangerous kind, but it had to come out. He set her up with another doctor. He confirmed it was cancer.
The surgeon was really concerned about it because it was on her ear. He was concerned about the cosmetics. I told him we got over being young and pretty years ago. I didn't give a damn if he had to cut her ear off, I wanted it out. I wanted all of it out. I told him when he was sure he had it all, take a little more.
They cut it out on 10 June and put seven stitches in it. She had to go back on 17 June to find out what they were going to do next. The doctor said the report came back that it wasn't cancer. He had a five dollar word for what it was, but it wasn't cancer.
I thought I was over being tense about it after they cut it out, but when he said it wasn't cancer I felt relief almost the same as when her breast biopsy was negative.
THANK GOD!
well dan, the wife looked over my shoulder while i was checking to see how you made out...
now shes nagging me about one on my arm!
welding burn that still looks about a week old after around 3 years
if i know her she will have made me an appointment before the week is out
Do it! It's a good thing![;)]
I'm glad it appears he fixed it. That makes me happy. [:)]
I guess I'm luckier than I have a right to be. A while back the wife had a little sore pop up on her right ear. Ugly little thing. She's one of these people you can't get to the doctor at gunpoint. I finally laid down the law and gave her five days to heal up or she was going to the doctor. It got a white scab over it and really didn't look so bad. She tried to cancel going to the doctor. I told her to get in the truck. She pulled the scab off and showed me how pretty it was then. I told her to get in the truck.
Sure enough, the doctor said it was cancer. He said if you just had to have a cancer, her's was the least dangerous kind, but it had to come out. He set her up with another doctor. He confirmed it was cancer.
The surgeon was really concerned about it because it was on her ear. He was concerned about the cosmetics. I told him we got over being young and pretty years ago. I didn't give a damn if he had to cut her ear off, I wanted it out. I wanted all of it out. I told him when he was sure he had it all, take a little more.
They cut it out on 10 June and put seven stitches in it. She had to go back on 17 June to find out what they were going to do next. The doctor said the report came back that it wasn't cancer. He had a five dollar word for what it was, but it wasn't cancer.
I thought I was over being tense about it after they cut it out, but when he said it wasn't cancer I felt relief almost the same as when her breast biopsy was negative.
THANK GOD!
Thanks James. I think I did the right thing, and I think you and your wife did the right thing.
I guess this could come back negative, but even if it does, I happy with what happened.[;)]
The doctor said the report came back that it wasn't cancer. He had a five dollar word for what it was, but it wasn't cancer.
I got $5 that the diagnosis was "chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis", which is a benign ulcerating lesion of the ear that mimics cancer. The only way to know for sure is to take it off and look at it under a microscope.
Anyway, people understandably get worked up by the word "cancer" but most skin cancers are not melanomas and are easily curable with local excision.
Its the melanomas that are the most common "bad" ones.