As for the whew, I had a large black and brown spot taken off my jawline a few weeks ago. It was melanoma in situ--the bad kind of skin cancer but only in the skin, so considered stage 0. I had to have a follow up procedure with a special kind of surgeon, who can examine the cells after they are removed, to make sure they got it all. They took pretty good sized chunk yesterday, sent it to the lab, and it came back clean. They got all the bad cells, so today they stitched me up. I am sporting a very attractive pressure bandage and will have a pretty big scar for several months. But as my friend Amy just said, "none of us ever noticed the darn thing before, we aren't going to notice the scar." The surgeon was a combination dermatologist, pathologist, plastic surgeon (called a Mohs surgeon), so he was able to take the minimum amount of tissue and minimize the scar.
So here's hoping Santa brings each of you a great big bottle of SUNSCREEN for Christmas and that you use it every day.
Love, Carolyn
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