Life is a adventure, it's not always a
good one but always exciting nevertheless. Our winter in Florida has
been cut short by what I'm calling a medical urgency. That's a couple
notches below a sirens and flashing lights emergency. We are home in
Myrtle Beach and I've decided to chronicle the last few weeks in
several blog entries. If you start here, hopefully it will easy to
follow.
On February 15th Millie and
I went to a Dermatologist in Miami. Millie had a small spot on her
wrist for several months that would not heal. We were fairly certain
it was one of the non fatal variety's of skin cancer and debated
whether to treat it here or when we get home. Our schedule was wide
open for a couple weeks so we decided to get it taken care of.
Besides there are almost as many dermatology offices down here as
there are palm trees.
The visit confirmed our diagnosis, and
we decided to schedule another appointment to have the Squamous
cell carcinoma removed. The following week we returned for the
surgery, here's where our story takes a strange turn. After what we
thought would be a very minor nip, Millie had a 2 inch long incision
and about 20 stitches.
We followed all the follow up care
instructions, but every day when we redressed the wound it looked
worse than the day before. I have promised Millie I would not post
any pictures, but it was obviously infected and we were getting very
concerned.
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