Tuesday 26 March 2013

Healing Nicely

So lots of people have been asking about how my scars look now, compared to the delightfully gory ones from when the operations first happened! Since its 2 years down the line (how long they say it takes scars to settle down) I thought I'd share!
Obviously most people see my arm on a regular basis, but here is a picture for those of you who haven't seen it lately:




I'm quite proud of how it's healed-I find most people don't notice it (unless they're just being polite!)
My thigh scar has pretty much gone!! (Kudos of you can actually see it!)




The scar that people don't really see is my underarm scar. I'm super pleased with how it's come along! I never thought that it would actually heal, but it did!




I didn't really do a lot to help my scars along, I am just very lucky and heal very well!! I bought a bottle of bio-oil when I had my ops, but I still have 4/5 of it left! I kept my wider excision moisturised, because they cut out the moisture-creating layer of skin, and used a bit of bio-oil occasionally, but mostly it seems that nature healed me pretty well :)
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Wednesday 20 March 2013

Spring Has Sprung...Apparently!

So it's March! I really don't know where time goes...I swear it was Christmas last week! The weather is more like that of a December though, what with all the snow we've had this week! 

My operation results were good :) it was a reactionary lymph node (whatever one of those is) and there was NO cancer in sight at all, which was lovely :) 

This means...drum roll please...that I have OFFICIALLY been Cancer free for a whole year! A massive achievement, and a good mile stone to reach! 

It doesn't stop me from being obsessed with every slight twinge or ache, or being convinced that me being out of breath has nothing to do with the fact that my exercise regime is severely lacking and if my stomach hurts, it has nothing to do with the horrifically greasy fish and chips I had last night!! I guess that paranoia is something that comes as standard with a cancer diagnosis! I am all to aware of how quickly things can change though, and sometimes I think celebrating might not be the best thing, as if something bad happens, the fall will be even harder. 

I rang my nurse in a state of panic last week after receiving a letter from my (shoddy) Doctors telling me that I needed to contact them RE: a scan result. MY mind went into over drive, convinced that they'd read the wrong scan and things weren't looking good. Turns out that they had only just received the scan results from the scan I had in January, which had already been dealt with! So my slight breakdown was just because of their lax record keeping!! 

I really do need to change doctors...