Making sense of my feelings

  • Making sense of my feelings following skin graft on my nose

    “What happened your nose?” The Big Issue seller’s question still runs through me. Mid April I had surgery to remove an infiltrative basal cell cancer from the tip of my nose. The 28mm wound was repaired using skin from my clavicle – now a lump of pasty looking skin on the tip, with two large blood crusts where necrotic tissue was cut away.

    Today is the first day I am out without a dressing. Writing…