#LoveMe Challenge – we all have scars, right?

Ironically, today’s #LoveMe Challenge is to share a scar…As readers of this blog may already know, I recently had an excision of an amelanotic nodular melanoma tumor removed from my knee. I’ve already covered the story of how it was found, how it was excised, and some of the “fun” of the recovery.

Technically, I guess what I’m sharing isn’t a scar yet. I mean, it’s still healing. Can it be both a scar and a healing site? I’m sure some people on the challenge will share some really cool stories to go along with their scars. I can share part of my story, but not all of it because it’s not finished yet. I know how I would like it to end, “and the cancer never came back”. But I may not be able to ever definitively say that because there is always the possibility that it will come back, however long I live. There’s a possibility that I might end up acquiring more scars because of this. I don’t really know. I’m trying to take each day as it comes, and train myself not to stress over things that haven’t happened yet. Because to be perfectly honest, when I stressed about the future, skin cancer was never something I fretted about. It’s so incredibly humbling to realize that all those other things I was so worried about never actually came into being, but something completely out of left field did. All those people who say that we imagine our future into being might be a little off-base, just sayin’.

Anyway, here is the unveiling of the site where Loki the Lesion left the building (and yes, I call the cancer tumor Loki – very appropriate since it definitely was a trickster, pretending to be something benign when it really was malignant melanoma…Where’s my hunky Thor and his hammer? I just got my tiny Asian female doctor and her scalpel out of the deal…)

My wound/scar 3 weeks in