Hey guys Bonnie here! Today, I want to talk to you about something that's happening to me
That's a little bit scary
and I'm a little bit freaked out about and
It's really important to know about and so stay tuned we're gonna talk all about the big scary c-word: cancer
Okay, so before anybody gets the wrong idea or too freaked out
We're talking about skin cancer and in my case a really really non-lethal none scary kind
it could be way way worse, but they did find some and
These past few months, weeks
I've just been trying to wrap my head around it trying to figure out all my options what it means
Why I have it etc etc
It's been a whirlwind to say the least and what with all the problems in the world
I know mine is so so so small
Little teeny thing little tiny spot that needs to be removed and as luck would have it it has to be removed from my face
Of course right first time right in the center of my face, but that's the fact and I wanted to hop on camera here
Just eight hours before I go into the doctor to get it removed
So you could see a before and so I can tell you a little bit about the diagnosis
And how we got here, and I then I will tell you all about the procedure how it went down
Feelings pain etc and show you the healing process so here we go, okay so first off
How did this even get started well a long time ago
I want to say maybe a year ago could be longer could be not so long. I really don't remember
I had a spot on my nose that
Took forever to heal it was a little spot a little sore I want to say it was from a pimple or something
I don't even remember
Scratched at a piece of skin whatever, so there's open sore, and I just remember it took forever to heal
nothing
Catastrophic or groundbreaking. I just remember thinking why is this stupid sore not healing on my face
so fast forward maybe a month or so it did finally heal and
created like a little
Flesh colored bump it wasn't red. It was an open sore or anything that was totally healed over
It was just a bump and every now and again. I would kind of rub it and think what was that? Why did it scar?
Whatever didn't think much about it
Something in back my mind though did make me a little concerned
I remember having heard in the past that
Skin cancers can manifest themselves in the form of sores that don't heal or take forever to heal so
That was kind of niggling in the back of my mind and fast forward about a year
And I had noticed on a couple of my favorite blogs
That people were coming out talking about skin cancer and their experience with it and all of a sudden
I start getting just a little more aware not really concerned
But just aware that it was something that could happen to me. I have a pretty strong family history of skin cancer
My great-grandma had it, my grandma's had it several times
My mom has had it a ton of times
But I was just kind of thought of it as something that happened to people who never wore sunscreen or people who laid out half
their lives or
People who were old I guess and I was none of those things , I always wear sunscreen, I never lay out
I'm not old...yet
So after reading these bloggers' stories, I decided all right
It's time to just go in and get everything checked out
You can go to the dermatologist and just ask for a skin cancer screening and some places
Do a lot more of these than others so if you're concerned about it
I would just look around open Yelp or whatever and
Ask friends for recommendations find a place that specializes
In skin cancer and just ask for a full-body screen so I did that and I went in they strip you down put a hospital
paper robe
thingamajiggy on you and then
The doctor came in with a little like microscope and just head-to-toe scanned me. Checked any mole or freckle that looked weird
Asked me if I had any concerns etc checked everything out everything looked good
She showed me a couple of freckles that said we should keep an eye on and that was about it
And then as she was going to leave she asked me if I had any concerns
So I just said there's this one spot on my nose
It feels weird to bring up because it's totally healed now, but would you mind taking a look so she did?
Looked at it with a special microscope or whatever said it did not look concerning to her
But that if it bothered me, they could do a biopsy so I was like
Yeah, sure whatever. Let's do it, so the biopsy basically
Means that they come in with this little circular
doohickey thing little
Blade slicer thing they put it over the area and just take a little sliver of skin from it now first
They gave me a bunch of shots to numb it up so I didn't feel anything the shots were kind of freaky to
get in your nose, but whatever and
Sliced up a little piece of skin and I was on my way and it healed in probably two weeks
Almost completely, then I get the phone call that hey guess what you were right it is skin cancer
The type of skin cancer they found on me, is called basal cell carcinoma
Which if you have to pick a skin cancer the doctor said, that's the one to pick
Totally non-lethal nobody dies from it it actually doesn't ever spread to other organs or to your bloodstream
So it can't kill you, but it does like break down tissue and destroy tissue
And so if I were to just to let it go it would eventually spread and cause
Weird things I guess I don't know so in short. I couldn't leave it. I had to get removed so there were all sorts of
Feelings and thoughts going through my mind as you can imagine
Number one, how is this fair? I wear sunscreen. I don't lay out. You know clearly I
have the coloring of someone who might end up with some skin cancer, I'm pale and I have freckles but
Just kind of felt gypped right. I'm in my 30s still trying to enjoy life
Feeling young and now this - lame! In fact when I went back to chat with the doctor about my upcoming procedure
I looked around the waiting room and everyone there was at least 70 years old had tanned leathered skin
And you could tell he'd spent a lot of time the sun
And I just felt like saying why am I here this is not fair. So anyway when I wrap my mind around that and realized
Fair or not this was it. I had to figure out what I was gonna
We talked to the doctor and
Thankfully he had decided that because of my age and because the spot was right in the middle of my face that
He is actually gonna be doing the removal of the cancer
And then he's going to send me directly to a plastic surgeon with the wound open
I just drive right there
And then they close me up because the plastic surgeon has a better skill set and can usually end up with a much smaller scar
So that's the plan. That happens in
Like eight hours. I'm about to go to bed and wake up in the morning and go first thing
Here's hoping that it doesn't take very long because if it takes very long that means that they have to keep digging so
The procedure itself is called a Mohs procedure MOHS and what that means is that
Go in they slice off a tiny little sliver of skin
And they immediately analyze it in their
Microscope or whatever and then they can tell if they've gotten all the cancer because they look for good margins
Which means healthy skin around the cancer if they see that they know there's no more cancer anymore
But if they don't then they go back and take another sliver of skin analyze it while I wait and back and forth etcetera
the benefit to this is that they take the minimal amount of skin because
clearly they're not gonna take more if they're the cancer is all gone and
Also, you don't have to keep coming back because they analyze it all right there while you're in the office so
That's good, and then like I said afterwards I drive straight to the plastic surgeon
They close it up and then give me instructions on what to expect how it's gonna heal how long it's gonna take so yeah
There's some nerves some worrying
but here's hoping that I'm in capable hands and that it hasn't gone super deep and that I don't end up with a
humongous scar for a super long time so
Anyway, if you guys have any questions
Drop them in the comments. I'll try to answer them
I'm not an expert
But I really want to share my experience because it was because of other people sharing their experiences that made me go in
And get checked out and who knows what would have happened if I don't let go a lot longer
So that's it for now wish me luck. See you later
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