Surgery update

Well, I had the surgery on Friday. It all went surprisingly smoothly and was a million times less traumatic and painful than the wisdom tooth extraction last year.

Today I got the dressings off. To my relief and my surgeon’s surprise, all the incisions have healed nicely, and now it’s just a question of the scars all settling down, which he expects they will do quite well. It was a whopper of a tumour – 35mm by 24mm in area, 11mm deep, and a mere millimetre from muscle. Had he had to cut into that, I’d be looking at much worse deformity. And had I (a) not been fed up enough to finally do something about it; (b) not spoken to my beautician about it and got a recommendation which in a roundabout way led to an excellent surgeon; and (c) we hadn’t had that windfall from Doug’s mother’s estate, I would probably not have done anything about the ‘scar’ until it was damn close to either killing or maiming me. So I’m amazingly lucky, and grateful as hell for my good fortune.

Pictures under the cut. Warning, pretty gross (no open wounds though). Remember, if you can’t login on my WP site, I will authorise you and email you as soon as I get the failure notice, so don’t panic!
The first one is a couple of days after surgery with all the swelling. The second one is today. I was amazed by how good it looked! (Which tells you how bad I thought it would look.)

I don’t have to see the surgeon again until my three month follow up. So all in all, it’s been a doddle 🙂