Squamous cell carcinoma
A dime-sized lesion on my ankle.
Thought it was Psoriasis (my grandmother had it).
I should be “cured” once the dermatologist slices it off in an outpatient procedure.
I’m not dying…I’m not having anything amputated…its all good.
:o
I suppose congratulations are in order- your cancer is an easily cured kind!
Yes, congrats!
I have an appointment with my dermo tomorrow to have various pre-cancerous lesions on my arms and hands looked at and dealt with. I"m with Kaiser, and my old dermo retired a while back, so it’s been a while since I’ve had the freezy-burny thing done. Not looking forward to it!
I guess you can officially say fuck cancer.
Very happy to hear you’re OK!
Congrats!
Stay out of the sun.
You’re sure you’re not in Australia? The skin cancer capital of the world. It’s a good catch that you got it early.
Whew! Glad to hear it isn’t more serious. Godspeed in your recovery!
Good for you. Don’t be a stranger Enola Straight. (Great name BTW).
A definite bad news/good news situation – glad it’s so easily resolved.
I walked by a sunscreen sales display the other day that featured graphic pictures of various skin cancers at different stages. I bought some sunscreen, but not that brand. (just an observation)
if your doc does the Mohs procedure that can be reassuring. it takes longer because you don’t leave until each bit of tissue removed shows no cancer, so you need to wait for these tests and maybe another treatment. the good is you don’t have to come back in because the doc thinks the first treatment didn’t get all of it.
Phew, that was a nice transition from reading the thread title to the body of the post! Thanks for the reminder too - I’ve got a suspiciously flaky spot on my arm that probably needs at least a blast of the old liquid nitrogen. I had to have a spot on my nose done a couple years ago, and my dad is missing a good 15% of one ear due to skin cancer. To the dermatologist!
For what it’s worth… congratulations. (You know, for not dying and all that.) 
It pays to get things checked. In this case, with your continued life.
A friend of mine just had the middle three toes amputated from a foot because of unchecked skin cancer.
Both of these makes me feel better (not that I really needed it) for being cautious. I was at my general practitioner’s with strep throat, and the RN noticed some scaling/scabbing on my right areola. There was a hard, pea sized lump that wasn’t painful when pressed. This can be a presentation of breast cancer, or something else. I had my regular 6-month checkup at my dermatologist a few weeks later, and she did a punch biopsy. Came back benign - seborrheic keratosis, inflamed. Yay.
*Yes, I am a guy. Guys can get breast cancer, and I have an immediate family history - my mother is a breast cancer survivor. I’m also genetically an Ashkenazi Jew. Still low risk compared to females, but not worth ignoring the possibility.
Best of luck.
Congratulations on Beating Cancer!
You can even wear a thong to celebrate.
Hate to be a one upper and all that, but I was diagnosed in February with melanoma.
I couldn’t believe the huge chunk of flesh they took out of me. I got pictures if anyone wants to see. Now I have a nice 5 inch scar on my chest. I was lucky, caught it early and they supposedly got it all.
Now I have to have body scans (which are really embarrassing) every 3 months for at least 2 years and then annually for life. Right now, waiting on the results of 3 biopsies from my first body scan.
Now I’m the sunscreen, floppy hat lady.
Good luck Enola Straight. If you have to have cancer, in situ is the stage you want. Just check your body for any weird mole changes and you should be good. No more sun tans either. They’re overrated anyway.
Yeah - Typo Knig had a small mole removed about 10 years back. When it came back as melanoma (in situ, or basically “stage zero”) he had to go back and have another chunk taken out to get better borders.
Since then he goes back every 6 months. Every few visits they’ll take off another mole; so far all have been fine except one that said “melanogenic” which I guess means “thinking about turning into melanoma” - had to get more taken off for that one as well.
We joke about his 6-month checkups - we call them “check-ovs” (from Star Trek TOS: “Soon there will be no more Checkov, only samples”).
