Waiting on the doc to come back and take the bad spot out. Looks like it will be the same as 3-4 years ago. Skin out a diamond shape and sew it back together. Just like a bad spot on a pelt.

Dang Danny, hope it's as easy as all that. Hopefully they get all the bad stuff cut out.

Ouch.Praying for you.Take care

Wow. Good luck. Hope all goes well

once you have seen them do it , you are thinking man I would have at least use a sharp knife , thank god the person can't feel it an isn't looking

Danny, Did they get it early? Hoping there's been no movement.

Had a Basil Cell removed from about that same area...been good for about 3-4 years

Nothing's come back.

Knee ??? Mine was back ..shoulder

Wife had a spot the size of a pencil eraser on her deltoid. She now has a 5” scar where they did the diamond incision. Thankfully nothing had made it to her lymph nodes. Changed the way I approach direct sun on my skin.

Best of luck to you a prayers your way. Her doctor told us they’ve come light years in treating this since just a decade or two ago.

Right shoulder. All sewed back up. Got one on my ear they are going to do in a couple weeks. Its a squamous cell. Had that and basil cell before. What I dont like is getting precancer froze off with that spray stuff. Feels like a mini flame thrower stead of freezing.

I hope they get it all Danny.

I am having a spot cut off of the tip of my right ear and one by by left eye on Thursday. My mom and one of my best friends had cancer removed from the same spot on their ears. They are removing the whole growths and will test them for cancer.

Keith

I hope they get it all too. They seem pretty confidant. I pulled my traps this morning. Got everything skinned and one coyote fleshed. Not ready to turn yet. Put stuff in the freezer. Think I will wait a couple days to flesh. Thinking I might pull a stitch if I dont.

God Bless.

Had a friend many years ago that ignored a spot on his chest. When he finally got it checked because it was getting pretty big it was too late. In his 30’s left behind a couple youngsters being complacent. Sad deal. It’s good you’re on top of it.

I miss the days when sunshine was good for you and a dark tan was a sign of good health.

Danny I had small one them cut off side my face back in think June?? Last Monday I went in doctor office. Gal washed my whole face with Acetone. Like prepping me for some kinda paint job LMAO.Then she put some chemical on had to sit there hour and half while it soaked in. After the she stuck my head in this light the call blue light. 15 minutes of that to activate the chemical on small cancer and pre cancer spots. Said the spot where them cells were would feel like a bee sting. Wasn't to bad overall but had a couple spots was like having one the yellow jacks on my face. After that I had to stay in the house out of the sun for two days. That was pretty easy as it was cloudy and days being short. Part of why I scheduled it for December.
Anyways all this cancer stuff doesn't seem to many people get a total pass on. Always something.

Mac

I think I could do that, a baseball stitch ought to pull that right together real nice.

I think I could too. Takes a lot of lidocaine though. All those little red spots are where they injected it. Have to be tougher than me to do it with out lidocaine. I know a vet I could get some from.

she didnt use a baseball stich. Tied each one. After I asked about fleshing when I got home and told her what it was. Said if one popped they wouldnt all come loose. The last one I had done he did some kind of whip stich. He cut one knot and pulled it all out. Almost no scar.

I'll say this . . . you're a fool if you don't wait a week two for resuming normal activities AFTER the stiches come out, and your DR. is an idiot for not telling you that!

Did you pop some SJA? This is literally just a skinned patch. If one or two pops it wont be life threatening.

good luck, dan, I had a few spots, frozen with that spray,

I pray it heals as well as the ones I had cut out. Frozen about 50/50 on scaring.

thanks everyone for the prayers

Yes. It's not what shows on the surface as healed, it's what you don't see unhealed beneath and infection can spread quickly.

This is along the lines of what my doctor said Danny.
I am leaving in a few minutes to get my stitches out from behind my ear. They cut my cancer spot out and took a skin graft from my thigh a week ago and stitched it behind my ear. Was given instructions about what to do and if the stitches popped loose we'd be doing it all over again. Got home and went out the next day and set off what few traps I had set.
Good luck on your procedure.

Russ

Isn't that the truth? I had a basil cell carcinoma removed below my left eye several years ago. No problem since.
Prayer for you to have the same result.

If they didnt get it all i wont have much shoulder left

Wow that is a zipper. Don't be playing slug bug with that there. Did they let you take any pictures before they closed it up? If I have my phone I usually take pictures of my wounds before they see me up.


Mac

Well at least you have a cool scar and can make up some "you should see the other guy" stories!

I hear ya on the "not much shoulder left" thing. They had to make 3 different cuts to get to the bottom of mine. I thought they were going to take out some bone.

Get it healed Danny u got a quail hunt coming up

I shoot left handed and its my right shoulder so all good

Trapperkeck, they whip stitched the last one I had. I asked about fleshing, had to describe what that was, got told no, then told it was sewed this way so if one pops the whole thing wont come unglued. I am going to going to flesh a coyote and a coon Saturday morning. Grandson wants to tan them. He will do some fleshing. Was his first coyote. Caught in a trap he got at Cletus's spoonbill days.

I think it will be fine. I can move my arm now with no tightness feeling.

I was going to ask you if you shot righthanded, as that would be a problem. Glad to hear you shoot lefthanded. I shoot lefthanded as well and have a stain on my left shoulder I've been putting off getting checked out. I would hate to mess up my shooting shoulder. Your post has prompted me to set up an appointment with the dermatologist.

Keck, where did you have yours done? That looks nasty! I was going to check out Midwest Dermatology in St Cloud. I had a basil cell carcinoma removed at Lakewood Dermatology several years ago. But, they told me they couldn't remove a cyst I had on my hand, that I would have to go to an orthopedic place to have that done.

I had one on the small of my back, right over the spine. Scraped it down to the bone to get it all. Took a long time before it healed and could bend over normally. 6 inch x 3 inch incision. Or so they told me. Couldn't see it myself.

Good luck with it, Danny! I had one taken off my ankle about 5-6 years ago. Had just gotten home from SD, actually came home just for that, 11th of December. He got done sewing it up, and I ask about the prognosis, he said to stay off of it. I ask some trapper questions, no to everything. He said your skin is so tight on your ankles and wrists, that it will bee a month or better! I was PO’ed, cause the first consultation, they talked like I could go back to doing everything like normal! End of January, I could finally wear my boots again, so I loaded up and went trapping down by Medicine Lodge. Hope yours goes better than mine did!

I had a 1 1/2 inch dia Basal cell removed in the spring. Seems to have healed up good. No down time, and a 13cm scar.

I got my ear tipped earlier today. I find out in about a week if it's cancer.



My doctor didn't remove the spot by my left eye. She thought it was to close to my eye for her to safely remove and said I need to see an ophthalmologist.

Keith

Biopsied my ear when they did my shoulder. Squamous cancer is what they said it is. Going to whittle it off Jan 8. Not real worried about this one, so did shoulder first.

Make sure to watch it afterwards. My friend James, who had his ear cancer removed this Summer, has something odd growing back in the same place. He said he is going to ask them go deep next time.

Keith

Praying.Good luck

Little gal that sewed me up did a fine job. Just came in from fleshing. Not a one popped and no discomfort.

Prayers for my Brother trapper.

Good deal Danny.hope they got it down to the tap root.

It was a benign skin growth with hyperkeratosis. Not cancer.

Keith

Dr just called. No cancer in the margins of the chunk they cut out.

I took the stiches out. Were starting to itch. Doc wanted to wait till Jan 2. I canceled that appt.

Great news for sure.