Talk about red! I am smiling because I finished the Carac treatment the dermatologist told me to do. Because of the basal cell carcinoma I had removed from the side of my nose back in April, he prescribed this Carac cream for me to put on my face for 28 days in order to get rid of pre-cancerous cells - which he saw when he did the biopsy of the tissue samples he removed back in April. Wow – it has been unnerving. Scott did this same treatment back in March and was so stoic about it, that I had no idea how uncomfortable it was. I stopped doing the medicine three days ago, and my face is still beet red, the skin under my eyes, over my lip, and next to my eyelids is dry and tawt, and I still have skin sloughing off. Very disturbing. I thought I was done with random bleeding spots, but just this morning awakened to a bloody scab under my eye again. Scott’s face was back to normal and even looked better just three or four days after he had finished doing the cream. I am guessing that my skin was more damaged, or just more sensitive, and that my face will always be red. Just kidding. I know I will heal someday. I wish the process would just hurry up a little bit so that people will stop asking me what is wrong with my face!Thursday, August 6, 2009
Carac - ouch!
Talk about red! I am smiling because I finished the Carac treatment the dermatologist told me to do. Because of the basal cell carcinoma I had removed from the side of my nose back in April, he prescribed this Carac cream for me to put on my face for 28 days in order to get rid of pre-cancerous cells - which he saw when he did the biopsy of the tissue samples he removed back in April. Wow – it has been unnerving. Scott did this same treatment back in March and was so stoic about it, that I had no idea how uncomfortable it was. I stopped doing the medicine three days ago, and my face is still beet red, the skin under my eyes, over my lip, and next to my eyelids is dry and tawt, and I still have skin sloughing off. Very disturbing. I thought I was done with random bleeding spots, but just this morning awakened to a bloody scab under my eye again. Scott’s face was back to normal and even looked better just three or four days after he had finished doing the cream. I am guessing that my skin was more damaged, or just more sensitive, and that my face will always be red. Just kidding. I know I will heal someday. I wish the process would just hurry up a little bit so that people will stop asking me what is wrong with my face!
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3 comments:
Bless your heart...that does look painful. Hopefully the cream did all that it was supposed to and that's it! Hope to see you soon.
Oh, you sweet girl. The smile proves that you are stoic, too.
How good of you to document this--it'll be a good memory in years to come:) I'm glad this is all over, it sure looked sore.
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