Scent of Cedar *
Well-Known Member
The offending bit of tissue has been excised.
I will be fine.
The little thing was on my back. I knew there was something there, but could never get a close look at it. I saw the dermatologist for something else entirely and asked her to take a look at "this little thing on my back."
It was biopsied (oh oh), and came back as noted. The little spot and the tissue surrounding it have been removed, and she believes she got all of it.
I had my dermatologist go over my skin with that little light about a year and a half ago. There was nothing there, then.
Because of my coloring, age (62) and history of sun exposure, I should have been examined every six months.
But somehow, we never believe all those warnings could become true things about us.
For each of us here, and for those we love, here are the symptoms that made this different than a skin eruption or a wart or a mole.
Itch.
Crustiness ~ not even crustiness. There was no drainage. It was like, little, tiny, flakes of dry skin. I was not concerned enough about it to have seen the dermatologist just for that.
I have potentially pre-cancerous little things on my face that I go in for periodically. She freezes the tissue, and that's that.
This was different. It seemed like an innocuous little thing, like an irritation...but it was an early, localized form of cancer.
When they say a sore that doesn't heal, this is what they mean. Just something not right.
I am blue eyed, and was a strawberry blond redhead. Pretty much, lived in a bikini whenever the sun was out.
Take good care of yourselves. Have these things checked. It was horrifying to actually read that word in connection to myself.
It was so sad, to see the excised tissue.
Brought up all kinds of things relative to mortality, and to aging, and to whether to fight it or let go, when we receive such a diagnosis. (Not over something little like this, but if and when the diagnosis is something worse.)
About that time?
MWM did her thread about "Elective Mastectomy ~ That's Me!"
:O)
Very helpful, to me.
Cedar
I will be fine.
The little thing was on my back. I knew there was something there, but could never get a close look at it. I saw the dermatologist for something else entirely and asked her to take a look at "this little thing on my back."
It was biopsied (oh oh), and came back as noted. The little spot and the tissue surrounding it have been removed, and she believes she got all of it.
I had my dermatologist go over my skin with that little light about a year and a half ago. There was nothing there, then.
Because of my coloring, age (62) and history of sun exposure, I should have been examined every six months.
But somehow, we never believe all those warnings could become true things about us.
For each of us here, and for those we love, here are the symptoms that made this different than a skin eruption or a wart or a mole.
Itch.
Crustiness ~ not even crustiness. There was no drainage. It was like, little, tiny, flakes of dry skin. I was not concerned enough about it to have seen the dermatologist just for that.
I have potentially pre-cancerous little things on my face that I go in for periodically. She freezes the tissue, and that's that.
This was different. It seemed like an innocuous little thing, like an irritation...but it was an early, localized form of cancer.
When they say a sore that doesn't heal, this is what they mean. Just something not right.
I am blue eyed, and was a strawberry blond redhead. Pretty much, lived in a bikini whenever the sun was out.
Take good care of yourselves. Have these things checked. It was horrifying to actually read that word in connection to myself.
It was so sad, to see the excised tissue.
Brought up all kinds of things relative to mortality, and to aging, and to whether to fight it or let go, when we receive such a diagnosis. (Not over something little like this, but if and when the diagnosis is something worse.)
About that time?
MWM did her thread about "Elective Mastectomy ~ That's Me!"
:O)
Very helpful, to me.
Cedar