So, if you read my previous post, I’ve not come into 2018 with a fabulous start. Yes, I know that I didn’t have another body part get cut into. Yes, I know I haven’t lost anyone close to me. Yes, I know I need to reframe my outlook because being crabby isn’t going to make things better. I know all… Read more »
So, we’re 12 days into the new year… and from the title of this post, you can probably guess that it hasn’t been all gloom and doom but it certainly hasn’t been sunshine and rainbows either… I guess that’s what is called life, right? The yucky stuff – well, I caught some virus that made me feel like a truck… Read more »
It’s a few days into the new year and I’m still trying to get into the normal routine. Between my long weekend in Ohio and the Florida road trip, my life has definitely veered from the ordinary for the last couple of weeks. We had a great time in Florida: hanging out in Orlando at a very nice resort (discounted… Read more »
It’s been 3 years to the day since I had my excision. It doesn’t seem possible. But it’s been 3 years since cancer was cut from my leg. While I’ve had a number of bullet holes from various biopsies (including a big old circle from my most recent one), so far, I’ve managed to avoid having another excision. I could… Read more »
I’m in the basement of the library in my home town. My parents don’t have wifi (WTF??) and I needed to get on some meetings for work since I’m trying to wrap stuff up before the holidays. (It is freaking cold. I forgot how much freezing cold winter air hurts every part of your body. Why do people live like… Read more »
I still cannot believe Tom Petty died… The title of the post is a small tribute to him as well as accurately describing my feelings right now… So, I’ve delayed on writing a follow-up post from my doctor’s visit last week. But with each day that passes, I realized that this blog is my therapy and if I wrote about… Read more »
I realized that I never followed up from my previous paranoid post. I did go to the doctor, who looked at the growing red thing on my leg and wasn’t sure exactly what it was; but she thought it might be some kind of dermatitis, or worst case, maybe basal cell carcinoma. She gave me a prescription for a steroid… Read more »
Ok, so a couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I had weird pink spots that I thought was an allergy-related thing. Well, one of them has decided to really jack with my head and expand rapidly in size to about the same size my previous Loki was before I had him removed. It’s only been a couple of weeks… Read more »
I found an article that notes that although 99 out of 100 cases of skin cancer has a lesion that is found on the skin; there is a possibility that you could have skin cancer without a visible lesion. How? As Dr. Jeremy Davis, a clinical instructor and surgeon at UCLA Health explains, “It’s not common, but there are situations… Read more »
Our weather here in Austin has suddenly turned fall-like, with temperatures in the low 80s during the day and in the 60s at night. This weekend, we’re supposed to get temperatures that normally happen in the winter, with highs only in the 60s! Time to bust out my sweaters and of course, I would need to wash all of them… Read more »