Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The call came in this morning

I suppose I am no different than most who say okay and find themselves finally listening intently to the bearer of the news that was not at all what they had expected.
Over these last nearly sixty-five years I have considered myself lucky having had more than a half dozen biopsies of my innards and surfaces and them all coming back benign.
Oh it's not too bad actually, my left ear although still painful came back with a benign answer to its biopsy, but oddly enough my after thought of asking the PA to check my left facial cheek too was a good idea, and no it doesn't hurt at all, but it does have squamous cell carcinoma albeit in situ, the earliest catch for this type of skin cancer, okay. 
Mohs surgery is going to be a go for the earlier part of next week my already scheduled day and the RN who called me said that it is so early in the disease process that it will be only one layer's worth being tested and I will have stitches that will have to come out in a week's time, okay.
This should be a piece of cake and boy would that be nice right now; a piece of cake i.e...

Scars, so many on my punim and to think I quit smoking nine years ago to stop any possibility, nah to prevent a stroke, although this is mostly sun related, yes all sun caused, wear that sunscreen folks, all of us! Oy vey, I live for sunshine in this state, in fact it's Florida's nickname!

Maybe we should move to a darker drearier state?
Nah.
Solution is more gobs of sunscreen and hats and covered up clothing with high SPF ratings!

Or... if my scar is too awful perhaps I will become more of a hermit than I already am?
Who would want to be responsible for scaring small children?
Or maybe I could be oh so brave like the young woman that wears her bear scar on her own face like a badge of pride stating that she is a survivor.
Let us not forget all those soldiers that lost limbs, children who survived cancer even adults and Boston Strong people...and on and on...
Now I feel so very ridiculous to be so small minded I will be fine, okay.
Life surely does go on and so shall I; If I am lucky!
  
On that note of so what on me, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS waiting on still what to do about my sore ear, oh so weird.
While my cheek doesn't hurt at all.


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