Life has been pretty mundane, so the most exciting thing I've been doing is getting skin biopsies done. Every 6 months I meet with my hematologist for a check up and he does a full body one over to check for abnormal bruising, etc. Last time he noticed some questionable moles on my back and told me to go to the dermatologist and get them checked for skin cancer. I had two large moles, one right above the other, on my back that the dermatologist checked and was also worried about them so she removed them and had them checked for melanoma. To reduce scarring we removed them both with one cut. But they had to make the incision really wide to be able to pull the top and bottom together. They to put 16 to 20 stitches in the under layer of skin and 16 stitches on the top layer of skin that spread about 2 inches wide. Needless to say, I was a little uncomfortable with those in...as you can see.
I did get the results from the biopsy and, thankfully, no cancer. However, the cells were atypical, meaning they could turn into cancer, so I have to go back in August to have the rest of the larger moles removed as a precaution (as you can tell from the picture, my back has 1 or 2). So I get to go through all this again. But it's better than cancer. Had I been thinking ahead I would have done all this during the winter, since I can't go in sun or bodies of water with all the stitches and scars, but oh well. Looks like we'll find out how well Mederma really works.
I did get the results from the biopsy and, thankfully, no cancer. However, the cells were atypical, meaning they could turn into cancer, so I have to go back in August to have the rest of the larger moles removed as a precaution (as you can tell from the picture, my back has 1 or 2). So I get to go through all this again. But it's better than cancer. Had I been thinking ahead I would have done all this during the winter, since I can't go in sun or bodies of water with all the stitches and scars, but oh well. Looks like we'll find out how well Mederma really works.
