Monday, September 30, 2019

Skin Cancer

Since my last post, I have had the cancer taken out. It will be two weeks tomorrow and I am supposed to have the stitches out. That's my chin in the picture below.


Here it is, patched up before I went home.



I am looking forward to having them taken out. There is another set of stitches inside, but supposedly they will dissolve by themselves. They're bluish-purple the doctor says. If I see some wormy things of that color coming out of my skin later, then I am to go back and they will remove them!

Here's what it looks like now


The shiny look is from it having vaseline over it; supposed to assist in the healing. I've had to wear a bandage over it, changing it twice a day. It leaked a little after I first got it done and had to go back two days after surgery to get three more stitches. It still burns and looks a little swollen. I hope this is normal, or at least not too unusual. 

BTW, the yellowish color is bruising from pushing down during the surgery, and then again when I went to for bleeding - they did that to find where the blood was coming from!!

We'll see. Like I said, I go tomorrow.