Showing posts with label Skin Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skin Cancer. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

Black Eyed

I am not a happy chappy.
Last Tuesday my dermatologist operated to remove a basal skin cancer from my forehead. The result is that under the bandages there is a huge inverted T cut made to prevent creating a permanently raised eyebrow.
At first I had pressure bandages on top and wrapped right around my head. They made sleep near impossible. I removed them as directed on Wednesday morning and went to work. However as the doctor advised I now have a huge black eye. (This is not mine, I have brown eyes, but you get the picture).
The stitches come out next Tuesday,

Working in a library of adolescents, I fielded lots of questions and tried to advise them to slip, slap, slop as I had sunbaked too much when their age. One obnoxious child told me that sunbaking was girly and gay. Perhaps I should have stressed the surfing rather than lying on the beach part of those days of my youth.
Now that my two days of work are over, I am just sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.

I am working one day next week then my current stint will be over, I will have worked 13 days in 7 weeks. I have been asked back for 4 days over 2 weeks at the end of August. The women I work with are very nice, most of the students (above example excepted) are reasonable but the drive each way is long, meaning I am away from home for 9 and half hours. However the money is too good to refuse.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Prayer Request

Just a break from my travels to ask your prayers for my sister. In our youth here in the hot sun of Australia we use to sunbake relentlessly, thinking we were not beautiful unless a dark brown. We are paying for that now. My sister has to be checked every 3 months and just before I left, she had a suspicious spot taken from her back. She has emailed me that it was a melanoma. I do pray they caught it in time. All I know is the doctor wants to check and may carry out a further operation in 6 weeks before I return home. Please pray it has not spread. Thanks.