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current mood: distressed
So that surgery that I had 3 weeks ago on my hand....turns out it was/is cancer. Melanoma. The really early stages of it, but it's still cancer. I'm getting so fucking tired of people saying 'at least they caught it early'. Yeah, this is all very well good and true....but it's still fucking cancer. I'm only 22 D:
So anyway, what's going to happen, according to the doctor, is that on the 2nd of July I get to have surgery again. They have to remove the scar, cut down until they hit clean tissue, and take off a chunk of skin roughly the size of a quarter, or a little bigger. Then they're going to take a skin graft from the same hand (left hand yay! I'd be pretty hacked off if it was my right hand. Wouldn't be able to do anything), and patch it over the top. During all this I'm going to be knocked out with a tourniquet around my arm. After all this my hand's going to be imobilized for at least 10 days.
...I'm gonna have a Franken-hand.
Then apparently I've gotta have 2 more moles removed 'just in case', one from my back, and one from the back of my thigh.
FML
Anyone wanna trade lives?





