Thanks to Joyce and Mike. He said he was going to cut it and "scrape" it out, whatever "scraping it out means??? I told him that if he had to, get out the post hole diggers and go all the way to the bone if he had to. Don't wanna chance to let even one cell get left behind. When I was in FL, I had a pre cancerous lesion cut out, and the doc left a few cells in there and it came back. He cut it out again, but it came back the third time. Third time, he took an instrument that looked to me just like a pair of mini post hole diggers. He went all the way to the scull (it was on my forehead), then put some type of acid in there and burned it as well. Put in a stitch or two and that was 20+ yrs ago and it never came back again. That's what I told my doc about yesterday and told him to do the same thing if possible. I can live without a tiny bit of shoulder muscle if that's what it takes. Chuck
On Friday, September 5, 2014 6:21:09 PM UTC-5, Chuck Alexander wrote: > > Folks: I need your thoughts and prayers please. I have had a “lesion” > about 1/2” diameter on my shoulder for about four months now and went to > the doc to get it checked today. I hadn’t mentioned it to him before as I > was having all those IBS intestinal pains, and it would slip my mind as > that pain was all I was worried about. > > Anyway, he took one look at it and said “that’s skin cancer and we need to > take it off asap” He says that he won’t know the type till he cuts it out > and sends a biopsy to the lab. He did say he didn’t think it has > metastasized, but I don’t know how he knows that unless it’s from the 6 > tubes of blood they drew today. I’ll probably get it taken off in about ten > days or so as he has to be out of town on continuing education next week. > He’s says “don’t worry about it” (easy for him to say, specially since I > lost my favorite Uncle to skin cancer about 15 yrs ago). > > Nobody likes to hear the “C” word, but I’ll just cross whatever bridges I > have to cross when and/or as I get to then. That’s all I can do right now. > But, being a natural worrier and say I’m worried about it would be an > understatement right about now. I’m sure that living in FL and being a > welder in FL for 20+ yrs didn’t didn’t help, as well as going shirtless > back when I had the body for it. I have several more that he says was “pre > cancerous” (they are different looking from this one, but I’ll start with > the “biggie” and let him cut em all off asap) that he’d take off at a later > date, but wants to get the one off now. Thanks a lot. Chuck > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
