Mauled in May, The Time to Do It

by Duf Anything and Everything

I have been going through a very aggravating circus with my dermatologist office.  I had four spots cut for skin cancer testing several weeks ago.  Two weeks ago I got a message to call the office for results.  Over the last two weeks I have had multiple aggravating phone calls to them.  Each time my hold time has been at least 15 minutes before I get to talk to someone, it’s nuts.  So I was told all four spots were positive for skin cancer.  For the first time ever one of them is squamous cell cancer.  Every other instance I have ever had is basal cell.

So the reason I needed to keep going back and forth was initially they said they wanted to set up four different appointments to do this.  I asked why that was necessary and I would much prefer fewer visits so there are fewer healing cycles.  Well the best I could do was get them down to three sessions.  They are going to do the two on the back of my neck/scalp at once but the two on the forehead will have their own cut and stitch sessions.  This is all going to go down in the span of a week, the first session is May 2nd and the third surgery is May 9th. It isn’t going to be fun to be cut into repeatedly like that but at least my healing should happen at more or less the same time.

Last night after work I headed outside and got the weed whacking knocked out.  Although doing this on a weeknight takes you right up to sunset it is nice to have it out of the way, allowing me to just sit my ass on the mower tomorrow. The other nice part of doing it late in the day is you escape the heat and sun, a large bonus.

This weekend besides mowing I may go out with Ali and Shugs to check out the progress on the house they are building.  Elsa loves seeing them and it’s good for me to keep ejecting myself from the house, into the world.   Now that some of my OneWheel GT injuries are healing up maybe I can get back out on a pickleball court again.  The video I made about my calisthenics history is seeing surprising interest, I thought nobody would care.  I was wrong.