The State of My Nose

  If you read the blog the other day you'll know I was found to have a basal cell carcinoma on the side of my nose recently. Friday I went in to have a cyst removed, but suggested they deal with the cancer first. The doctor thought he might already have gotten the whole thing when he did a 'shaving'  at the beginning of the week. He said that we could leave it at that and keep an eye on it in case it came back, or, just in case, he could remove the surrounding area to make sure he had gotten all of it. I asked if there was a chance it could come back under the surface of the skin and we wouldn't see it. He said it might, so I told him to 'cut my nose off'.  I ended up with 5 stitches inside, and about 20 stitches outside, in what he referred to as a 'running baseball stitch'. (I said, "That's funny, because I was feeling like laying my head in a baseball mitt and I didn't know why.") It goes most of the length of the side of my nose. It hurt like crazy yesterday, but it's not too bad today. I still can't blow my nose though! My eye was pretty puffy this morning, but I think it has gone down a lot now.

Talk about your foul balls...

  Now that that's taken care of, I received a letter from my other doctor's office today, telling me that my routine blood tests showed an abnormal thyroid. As "Rosanne Rosannadanna" used to say, "It's always something!"