[Two days after stopping Efudex treatment.]
I am thankful for quite a lot, actually.
Thankful for friends who email me with suppport, and ideas for how to cope. (see below)*
Thankful for my kids, I love them a lot and I am so proud of every one of them. (And happy 18th birthday today to my Rachel.)
Thankful for my health…besides this little skin annoyance and a few others, I really don’t have any major issues to worry about, I am in pretty good shape for a guy pushing 50.
Thankful that I was able to stop the Efudex a little early, and that after another handful of days, I can expect to start seeing improvement.
So…okay, I did wake up at 5:30 this morning with a combination of pain and itching that just about drove me out of my mind. But I got up, put on some steroid cream, and managed to fall back asleep for a few hours.
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* re: Advice from a friend…I had been wishing I owned some kind of shirt that has a very large opening for one’s neck/head. because my neck is so sensitive right now that wearing any shirt is painful. A friend suggested cutting out the collar of an old tee-shirt. Excellent suggestion…did that, and have been wearing it for two days now.
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Troy // Apr 17th 2011 at 3:36 pm
49 years old, white, fair skinned. I can say not to allow the basil cell to keep growing. I have a 6 inch scar on the back/side of my neck, (by 1 inch of scarring skin now) that looks like someone tried to cut my head off at some point, have to laugh at it sometimes-it helps. Basil cell will just trail or attack more surface area if allowed to grow. Mine seemed to start at around 47 years old. Basil cell won’t heal, you may think it’s eczema, but the skin is very weak on the bump that forms and will bleed. I tried castor oil with baking soda, it will help the superficial only, and it’s a bloody mess. In all, I had 7 pieces removed, some the skin was the size of a 50 cent piece to make sure it was all gone. Get it as soon as possible. The worse part is the Novocaine shots.
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