Hey, got skin cancer? Is it on your face?
Want the Mohs technique? (surgeon removes cancer sparing skin cells {examines cells under a microscope and if cancer-free --stops, if not, takes another sample} rather than take a big scoop for good measure) BUT, do you want a plastic surgeon at another office to close the wound?
Well do your homework.
My relative had cancer surgery today. All went well. By 11 AM she was cancer free (basal cell carcinoma) yet at 8 PM she is now in the hospital, moved from the office of the plastic surgeon because he couldn't numb an area on her face where he needed to cut.
Cripes, bad enough to have the Mohs (which was done with a local but didn't hurt) but to then have to be in pain for hours because the plastic surgeon was busy and wasn't expecting to need to send her to the hospital. I feel for her.
You must coordinate the Mohs surgery with the plastic surgeon...oh, that won't work I guess as she had already done that. I don't know what the screw up was but really! This seems barbaric to me.
She's got a huge hole on her face now since 11 AM with no one able to do the reconstruction.
Maybe when the doc comes back from dinner. I hope so.
Want the Mohs technique? (surgeon removes cancer sparing skin cells {examines cells under a microscope and if cancer-free --stops, if not, takes another sample} rather than take a big scoop for good measure) BUT, do you want a plastic surgeon at another office to close the wound?
Well do your homework.
My relative had cancer surgery today. All went well. By 11 AM she was cancer free (basal cell carcinoma) yet at 8 PM she is now in the hospital, moved from the office of the plastic surgeon because he couldn't numb an area on her face where he needed to cut.
Cripes, bad enough to have the Mohs (which was done with a local but didn't hurt) but to then have to be in pain for hours because the plastic surgeon was busy and wasn't expecting to need to send her to the hospital. I feel for her.
You must coordinate the Mohs surgery with the plastic surgeon...oh, that won't work I guess as she had already done that. I don't know what the screw up was but really! This seems barbaric to me.
She's got a huge hole on her face now since 11 AM with no one able to do the reconstruction.
Maybe when the doc comes back from dinner. I hope so.
posted by mary bishop | 9:22 PM
6 Comments:
i had something like that when i was 10. I was a lucky kid alright :)
it wasnt cancer with me, only had the potential for it...
Nate, with the hole in the ozone layer, younger and younger people are getting skin cancers. Even though today's post was about how I love the sun, I don't love it like I used to, laying on a blanket covered in oil trying to get my superwhite skin at least offwhite if not light beige.
Glad you fared well, and keep your sunscreen on!
That is just horrible! I'm sorry she's having to deal with this. Just wrong.
I love the sun also, but I always put on SPF 30, and so do the kids. I still get a tan, just takes longer.
I do remember the baby oil days- back yard, full sun, large sheet or blanket, radio, did I mention baby oil? Oh, and my cigarettes. Can't lay in the sun, full of baby oil without cigarettes.
Lawbrat, this young woman never spent time in the sun at all. Very scary. I, blonde and blue eyed, once baked in the sun because I love how I look with a tan and with sun streaked hair.
I should have the cancer not this person who has red hair and super white skin and knew the sun was not her friend.
But life isn't like that, is it. We don't get what we deserve sometimes, good or bad.
Mohs surgery Is one of the best ways to fight skin cancer
Dr Barry Lycka'
President
The Skin Cancer Foundation
www.canadianskincancer.com
Dear Basl, I wa sjust bragging how I didn't get any spam! Wouldn't you know you'd pop up.
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