Suffering a bit with frustration today. There's the stuff you know, and the stuff you don't know. It's now eight weeks since I had my melanoma removed at the biopsy and six weeks since the result - it was 1.5 mil thick. The doctor who gave me the news stressed how urgently I had to get to see the dermatologists / oncolgists at Jimmy's. Hurry, hurry ... got there, but now it'sbeen three weeks of lolling…
OK, three weeks to the SNB, WLE all being well - not actually got a date, but that's the list I'm supposed to be on, max. Had a good weekend, though I had to get up at 5:00 a.m. Saturday as I'd got my thoughts in a loop. as soon as I wa upright I was fine - listened to old radio programmes on Radio 7 - "Listen Again" a fantastic blessing in the night. Got all my ironing done before Penny got up at 8:00 (My grandfather…
I think I chose the wrong time of year to be diagnosed. Because the surgeon has been on holiday for two weeks, he has a backlog, and the list which I should have been on - 30th July is short of an anaesthetist. So the surgeons secretary (lovely and helpful, I have to say) says it might still be done then,but more likely on August 9th. But on the other hand the surgeon is trying to get some more lists, so it might be earlier…
Dr Mbugua Telephones
A few weeks ago, no more,
I noticed, which had not been there before,
A blemish on the skin beside my knee.
How big was it you ask?
About like half a pea.
It wasn't a thing to worry anyone,
If I had seen it on a child
I would have said
It's just a wart - and smiled.
But when I'd passed sixty
I'd made myself a rule,
that I would have these things checked out,
And feeling quite the fool
I went…
Rang Jimmy's (St Jame's Infirmary, Leeds) yesterday and spoke to my (future) surgeon's secretary to see if there's any news of my impending SNB, WLE. Pleased to say I'm in the system, and will hopefully get a date by the end of this week. I do occasionally wonder if the passage of time increases the risk, but mostly I'm fine, except I'd like to get this next thing done and dusted. The only thing I can compare…
