A day at the dermatologist

[Jayaruh]

I left home at 7 this morning to get to the drs office by 7:45. I had two spots that were going to be dealt with: one on my neck and one on my temple. Mohs surgery is where they take a sampling around the spot and look at it for cancer. If they find none, then you are done. If they find some, they go back and excise more. This cycle continues until it is all clear. He took samples from both places and sent me to the waiting room. After about 45 minutes they came back and announced that they would have to do it again to both. After they took the second samples I was again sent to the waiting room. When done, I found out that the neck was clear but they needed to do more on the temple. I found out that they would have to do a skin graft for the temple since it was so big. It was about the size of a quarter. After the third biopsy, I was declared clean. Now they had to stitch everything up. He stitched up the neck first. Then, they cut donor skin from my clavicle skin. It was after 3 o'clock before we could leave. It was a long day. We went to Little Pigs and had some BBQ before heading home.