For a variety of reasons, I’ve been more emotional the past few days. I’m going to chalk it up to being sick and trying to maintain a chipper attitude when really, all I want to do is curl under a blanket, read a ton of books, eat chocolate, and nap. My scar is reacting to all of this in sympathy… Read more »
How does a cold virus do so much to make you feel lousy?
It seems crazy that my excision was 6 weeks ago. Some days, it feels like it was just yesterday; and other days it seems so long ago. This morning, I had a meeting earlier than I usually get into work. I went to bed earlier than usual last night and got up an hour earlier than usual. I actually felt… Read more »
It has been over a month since my excision. The wound is completely closed up and the infection is completely gone. I’m now in the scar phase. To recap, I had an amelanotic nodular melanoma lesion removed from my knee area. The spot was about the diameter of a pencil eraser, but the excision took a pretty big chunk of… Read more »
I am in San Francisco for a work event. Ordinarily, I love being here and walking around the city. However, I’m still recovering from the excision and even though my wound is healed, I’m still feeling a really strange pulling sensation in my leg – almost like the internal stitches are being yanked. Normally, I get a hotel that doesn’t… Read more »
The #LoveMe Challenge for today is to share something about me that I love. I will for sure tell you it will not be my stomach or my predilection for diet soda. (I think the two are related.) Physically, I used to really like my legs. They were always a bit muscular as I was growing up and they were… Read more »
The last few days have been fairly stressful for me from a psychological standpoint. My husband, who is out of work, thought he had a job offer coming; but instead was told that the position “isn’t funded”. Why you would go through the process of interviewing someone multiple times, both on the phone and in-person, over the course of a… Read more »
Today was my visit with the doctor who performed the excision of my amelanotic nodular melanoma lesion. Naturally, I was a little worried that I still showed signs of infection in the wound, despite being on antibiotics for two weeks and pouring vinegar solution on my leg every day for a week. I had this weird peeling skin around the… Read more »
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… Read more »