squamous cell skin cancer Archives

A Cancer Journey: My “Easy” Cancer, Part 11

In retrospect, everything went as well as could be expected…

Having survived a ten-hour ordeal on my Mohs surgery day, I’m still not done, because I still have an open wound on my nose…

I cannot possibly do justice to just how unpleasant and stressful Mohs surgery is in just a few words, but here goes nothing…

Mohs surgery scheduled three months out…

Two more anxiety-filled weeks passed until I met with a surgeon who specialized in something called Mohs surgery…

Ten days passed. The postcard never came…

They said it’d take one to two weeks for the pathology report to arrive…

You don’t think of all the questions you should have asked until after you’ve left the doctor’s office…

Dermatologist appointment day…

It all started with an itchy spot on my nose that just wouldn’t stop itching…

Except for Melanoma, most people think about skin cancer like it’s no big deal…

I wish I had a short and simple answer. Alas I do not. Allow me to explain…