Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Wear your sunscreen

Got "the call" from the Dermatologist today. I do in fact have a form of skin cancer called Basal Cell Carcinoma. I have two "tumors" as they called them (hate that word) that will need to be removed and tested further. Hopefully it will all be removed in one shot! Fortunately she said Basal Cell Carcinoma is a "slow growing" skin cancer and can usually just be "cut out". So, I go in on December 5th for the first one and then December 19th for the second one. They won't do both at once due to a higher risk of infection. So, they will remove the "tumors" and stitch both "inside" and "outside" and then when I go to have the stitches removed they will remove the second one. Bummer!!! My dad has the same type of skin cancer and has had several tumors removed and none have spread. So with that said, I will be even more careful while out in the sun. I actually gave up the tanning beds when we found out my dad had skin cancer. I am now a fan of self tanning lotions!!! I will definitely be slopping sunscreen all over Macie ALL the time!!!
So far it looks like she got her daddy's complexion, let's hope it stays that way.

2 comments:

Samantha Scimeca said...

I am glad you went and had it looked at! Hopefully it will work out just like your dad's and they can remove them and be done with it.

Anonymous said...

Oh, sorry to hear, I'm sure you'll be just fine and I'll be thinking about you. Take care and cover up.