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Showing posts with label stitches. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

It's not cancerous, but it's not normal

So I've had this thing on my leg for some time. It was kind of a dark underground thing. I could squeeze around it and tell that whatever it was, it was deep. I was at my dermatologists office and asked him to look at it. He decided that it needed to be biopsied. So he cut a little chunk out and sent it away to be analyzed. Two weeks later I'm back in his office to get my one stitch out, and he reads the results. Basically, it's not cancerous, but it's not normal, and I need to get the rest of it out to be on the safe side. So two weeks ago I went in and he cut the rest of the thing out of my leg. Now I thought that it was about the size of a dime and a half an inch thick, but you can clearly see from the picture that the incision was longer than a quarter and it was about a half an inch thick (just like I thought) I had to get stitches inside and outside the incision, and really the recovery was not that bad. I couldn't work out for two days (Which I hated-seriously) and it throbbed every so often, probably when the nerves were reconnecting. Tuesday I went in for my stitch removal, and everything looks good, except of course for the ginormous scar on my leg! Hopefully that will fade in time, but we'll see, I have some other ugly scars that never went down. Anyway, I am happy that it was not a more serious condition. Enjoy the pictures :)