Mom had her surgery.

[dalesql]

Yesterday, my mom went in with my dad to have a skin cancer removed. I forget the name, but it was the surgery where the remove the lesion plus a bit, then take another layer of tissue out which goes immediately to the lab to be tested for cancer cells. If yes, remove some more. Repeat until you run out of cancer or run out of soft tissue. We've all been a bit worried about it, mom is nearly eighty, after all.
Anyway, the first bite got it all. this is good, meaning the cancer hadn't spread much. It goes off to pathalogy to find out if it is a primary or secondary lesion. (secondary lesion means the cancer spread to there from someplace else.)
After the surgery, they fed my parents some half stale turkey sammiches, then sent them off to the plastic surgery clinic to have the hole in her face from the surgery repaired. Surprising the plastic surgeon, mom's skin was flexible enough to be stretched to cover the opening, and it got superglued
together to heal up. Total time away from home about ten hours.
I'm feeling quite a lot better, things are looking quite good. My parents will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversry in August, so things are on track for that now.

Comments

[savant-da-rat.livejournal.com]

Erf, best wishes for your mom *snugs*

-Digit

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hope your health has improved as well.