A short medical update on us both. Mine first, since it’s short. All three of my skin biopsies (chest, forehead, back of knee) came back as pre-cancerous. I have an appointment next week to have all three spots frozen to hopefully prevent them progressing to skin cancer. I am now on six month checkups. I also see the surgeon who treated the two skin cancers on my shin (one excision, one laser treatment). Both spots are healing well and I should be done seeing him.
Now for Stu – he had the surgery on his lower back last Thursday. All went extremely well, the surgeon said the cyst was much larger than anticipated and as soon as he cut in, the cyst popped out. He was quite pleased with the overall results. I waited in the main surgical waiting room area where I got phone calls when he went into surgery, then the doctor after surgery, then the recovery room, and a final call that he was headed back to his outpatient room. I headed back there and waited. Soon one of the floor nurses brought him coffee (at his request).
It was much appreciated when he arrived…
All in all, we arrived at 7 am and headed home shortly before 1 pm. A quick McD’s stop for lunch and then back home. Stu settled in on the sofa, comfortable and with no pain.
He still is mostly pain free, only taking an Aleve at night for sleep. The dressing comes off tomorrow, leaving only the steri-strips. We can remove them next Thursday. Stu gets to shower and needless to say, he’ll be a happier camper!
The weather has been quite nice and we’ve gone out for a short walk every day so he can get his left side muscles back to par after favoring that side for months. Our first day walk was shortened by this sight – a dead skunk and the feasting buzzards. We knew the buzzards would fly away (there were five in total) but that smell…we turned around and walked further past our house to complete our 10-15 minutes.
Cooper has been enjoying his play time and will be home tomorrow. But here is a photo I took as the two men of the house surveyed their domain (and the workers putting up cable for Comcast).
