Dystopian Paradise

Well, the past few weeks since mid-June have just flown by.  With the symbolic passing of another year, I marked the evening with several close friends playing a new board game that I enjoy very much, and wholeheartedly recommend, “Shadows Over Camelot.” More on that another time. Today I want to explain, for those who haven’t heard, just where my last 2 weeks have gone.

In essence they have gone to Dr’s visits.  After my birthay rolled around, I got to thinking it was time for an annual checkup, seeing as how it had been closer to two. So, I made an appointment, and dropped in, know full well that I’d gained my “new baby 10″, and should be eating out less, exercising more, and to have a mole behind my ear measured. Well, all went well, I get a recommendation for a podiatrist to fix up my ingrown toenails a week or so later, and then she measured the mole and it had grown. So, off I go to the dermatologist (getting a doctor’s recommendation skips you ahead of the two month wait), and sure enough we have that nasty little bugger biopsy’d. So there’s the first week.

Not too worried about ye ole mole, as I have several, and one mole looks about the same as the next, until I get a call on Saturday morning from my dermatologist, letting me know that I have an “in situ melanoma“, and that I’ll need to make an appointment on the following Monday with a surgeon for a consulation. In this consultation I learn that in situ melanoma is an early stage skin cancer, and if not caught early can be very deadly.  Thankfully, we had caught this as early as is possible, however, they needed to remove 1/2 cm margins around the mole to be sure to remove any sattelite cancerous cells that might still be lingering. So, we schedule that for last Friday (the 27th), a short two days after having my toenails operated on. In retrospect this might have been a bit much to handle, however, we are switching health plans as of today, and it made some financial sense.

Finally, the day after the surgery (Saturday) for those keeping score. Kassy, Kaden, and I attended a 1st birthday party for a friend’s daughter, and I was enjoying a delicious popcorn ball made with jello for flavoring & extra stickiness. However, during one of these bites of popcorn ball, I accidentally chipped a large chunk of enamel off of one of my two front teeth.  Thankfully, my two front teeth have very large fillings from an accident as a child, and they were likely going to have to be replaced sometime soon, but still, “when it rains it pours.”

After a long weekend, a few Vicodin, and a bit of limping things are looking up. Kaden is sleeping through the night again (hooray!), I’m not limping nearly as much, and my bandages on my neck are almost ready to come off.  All in all it looks like July should be a much better month than June was.

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