Well - What do you expect if you insist on living on a boat in the Med for 15 years?

[BirvidikBob]

Skin cancer, that's what.

Still, it's not all gloom and doom:

www.sailblogs.com/member/birvidik

 

[JumbleDuck]

Brilliant, as ever.

BUT SHOULDN'T DEATH TALK LIKE THIS?

I'm worried that you may have been taken in by an imposter.

 

[BirvidikBob]

Ah! That explains the Welsh accent.

 

[Stingo]

Skin cancer is treatable if caught early. I'm proof, alive and well 20 years later.

 

[BirvidikBob]

I'll know if it was caught early enough on Tuesday week.
You'll be the first to know.

Well, almost.

 

[Iliade]

Good luck!

 

[Painninja]

My fingers and toes are crossed for you

 

[PhillM]

Good luck, hope its good news.

 

[Skylark]

Good luck.

 

[Sybarite]

Snap. In a few weeks I am basically having a nostril removed. The operation will be done in two stages. First the cutting it off and then a few days later when the analysis confirms that they have got it all, a different surgeon (a professor) will reconstruct by grafting skin from my cheek.

As my dermatologist has disappeared off the face of the earth (and another proposed an appointment next March...), I went directly to the first surgeon who has already lopped a few pieces off me in the past in order to fix an appointment. He saw me and did a biopsy on the spot. I then saw him a few days later when he set up the operation with his partner.

 

[BirvidikBob]

"In a few weeks I am basically having a nostril removed. "

Well that's your coke consumption halved, then.

Good luck

 

[mjcoon]

Skin cancer is treatable if caught early. I'm proof, alive and well 20 years later.

Yes, in case any readers may be disturbed by Bob's latest entertaining rant... My own open-heart surgery stopped short of needing a lifetime's addiction to warfarin for follow-up treatment which simplifies subsequent surgery as Bob describes. And a tendency of my heart to arrhythmias seems to have been cured by acquiring a pacemaker. A minor brush with a skin cancer biopsy was performed under local anaesthetic on a while-you-wait basis and came up clear. Similarly my two goes at prostate reduction revealed no cancer, though the relief on my urgent micturition was huge!

 

[Sybarite]

"In a few weeks I am basically having a nostril removed. "

Well that's your coke consumption halved, then.

Good luck

M*rd* I didn't think of that.

 

[38mess]

Skin cancer is treatable if caught early. I'm proof, alive and well 20 years later.

Me too, double melenanoma, and loads of basil cell carcinoma in the last 20 years.
Good luck to the op

 

[BirvidikBob]

Yes, in case any readers may be disturbed by Bob's latest entertaining rant... My own open-heart surgery stopped short of needing a lifetime's addiction to warfarin for follow-up treatment which simplifies subsequent surgery as Bob describes. And a tendency of my heart to arrhythmias seems to have been cured by acquiring a pacemaker. A minor brush with a skin cancer biopsy was performed under local anaesthetic on a while-you-wait basis and came up clear. Similarly my two goes at prostate reduction revealed no cancer, though the relief on my urgent micturition was huge!

Nice one. Makes me feel like a glowing example of health and vitality.
(Not Health & Efficiency - that would be a step too far)

 

[25931]

For me it would be a step back 75 yeears.

 

[Tranona]

Yes, in case any readers may be disturbed by Bob's latest entertaining rant... My own open-heart surgery stopped short of needing a lifetime's addiction to warfarin for follow-up treatment which simplifies subsequent surgery as Bob describes. And a tendency of my heart to arrhythmias seems to have been cured by acquiring a pacemaker. A minor brush with a skin cancer biopsy was performed under local anaesthetic on a while-you-wait basis and came up clear. Similarly my two goes at prostate reduction revealed no cancer, though the relief on my urgent micturition was huge!

Open heart surgery - or rather the after effects of the anaesthetic definitely the worst. Still get flashbacks of being prepared for the coffin when it was actually a nurse washing me down in the middle of the night. Like Bob really did think it was close. Kidney transplant on the other hand stress free (relatively). Removal of basal cell carcinomas like 38mess though most annoying as take ages to heal. Had 2 removed on 16 April and one is only just healed. Always in the most awkward places like under the shoulder blade or in the small of the back where stitches won't hold and they get infections easily.

Not complaining though as would not be alive without these marvels!