Skin Cancer!
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 5:07 AM PST
One more scar to add to my collection. Last Friday I had a basil cell skin cancer removed from my left forearm. The incision is approximately 1.5 inches long and took 6 stitches in it to close it up. This is the 5th time I have had to have one removed. I have a scar on my nose where I had a skin cancer removed and I had to have a skin graft. A coworker also is going through a struggle with skin cancer. Unfortunately his is the more aggressive Melanoma. His was on his back and had spread to his limp nodes around his shoulder. They removed his limp nodes and he is waiting to hear the results to see if they were able to get it all. My next door neighbor has only a partial left ear due to skin cancer. My grand father died of Melanoma at an early age and my mother never knew her father because of it. Guys and gals take a close look at your skin, watch any moles etc closely and if you have a sore that won’t heal head to the doctor to have it checked out. Good Luck to all of you! |
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 6:07 AM PST
Great advice! I am a uteran cancer survivor and you would be amazed at the people that I have talked to that just blow off their yearly checkup! Be diligent about your checkups and call you doctor ANYTIME you think something might be a little off. Uteran cancer sometimes has no symptoms.or very little sympton. When I had mine it could have very well been considered just a hornonal thing.. my obgyn says the ONLY way to tell the difference was to do a biopsy. Mine was cancer, caught very early and I am now 6 years cancer free! Praise God! And thankful I always felt it was important to go to a specialist.. my family doctor told me it was most likely hormonal and not to worry about it. I no longer have that doctor. Pyoung, I am glad you got that taken care of and pray that you heal quickly and completely. It is a good reminder to make sure I wear my sunscreen. |
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 6:12 AM PST
Good advice! A co-worker friend of mine had a place on his ear that wouldn't heal and I bugged the crap out of him about going to the doctor for months and months. It was a malignancy, not melanoma but something called leiomyelosarcoma and very dangerous. He lost a good part of his ear to tumor resection and is doing fine post radiation therapy but he said he'd never again let something that seemed insignificant go on so long without getting it checked out thoroughly. |
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 7:17 AM PST
You're preaching to the choir here. We could tell you some tales! I'll spare you from all that, though. P, take care, use your sunscreen and maybe your effudex will help with having to have any further surgeries. Get 'em early. |
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 5:57 PM PST
Just more of the same advice from this corner too. Both my sisters, my dad and mom had skin cancers. Mom and my baby sister had a small chunk taken off the nose. And have a biopsy if you don't like the looks no matter what the doctor says. That is how one sister found two of her places. I go to my dermatologist anytime I see something that doesn't seem right to me. So far I have been lucky. I do use sunscreen but I don't always remember to re-apply during the day. And shade is not a defense either. The sun filters right through those trees leaves. So I promise to be more vigilant and the rest of you take heed and have any odd looking/feeling place looked at. Linda B |
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Posted: Jun/19/2008 1:20 PM PST
I've been lucky so far. I only had one mole removed, but it was benign. My husband has had numerous moles removed, some good and some not. He needs to get more done, too. I wear a big hat as well as sunscreen. I don't like wrinkles either. He also had a lumpectomy in his chest. It was benign. |
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Posted: Jun/19/2008 2:24 PM PST
ANY kind of cancer is scary! Glad you are OK. Thanks for the reminder to be on the lookout for suspicious spots. 
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Posted: Jun/20/2008 4:45 AM PST
Funny thing is I show up to work with my arm with stitches in it. And now 2 other co-workers have decided to head to the doctor. One for themselves and the other is going to drag his wife there. She has a sore that has not healed in over a year. That does not sound good. |
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Posted: Jun/20/2008 6:37 AM PST
No it doesnt sound good really. I just don't understand why people would let a sore go for a year without healing. Do you suppose they are afraid of hearing something they don't like? It is not like we don't have all kinds of information out there about health these days, the TV, newspapers, magazines.. Maybe it is like identity theft.. people hear about it, know it happens and destroys lives, but ''do not think it will happen to them?'' Up until I had my surgery, one of my sister's in law had not had a checkup in 7 years!! Since then she has had her checkup which revealed polyps and has had to have several removed. Now she goes regularly for her checkups. Prayers and good thoughts for your co-workers pyoung. |
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Posted: Jun/20/2008 7:31 AM PST
Well he tells me the excuse was that she has been so busy taking care of their preemie twins that she just forgot about it. I hope its nothing serious. |
