Back to the plastic surgeon’s office on another Monday. Everything is still looking great according to them. I’ve been getting around a little easier after swapping my bandages for a compression sock. It definitely helped with mobility.
Tag: Doctor Visit
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Most visits to this doctor’s office I’ve only been seen by an NP. However, the visit was scheduled a little differently this week because the plastic surgeon himself wanted to take a look at how my leg was healing. The skin graft didn’t take as well as he had hoped, but it wasn’t a total loss because a good portion of it did adhere to the wound.
Everything is still healing up well. I’ve had no complaints regarding pain, just some insatiable itching where the healing is happening. It’s just a little bit awful to itch so badly but not be able to scratch or otherwise ease the itching! Scratching at this point in the process would damage the healing skin, so I can’t touch it…
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Everything is still healing up well and I’m becoming a regular here at the office. It almost feels like a second home at this point! 🙂
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I got another good report at the plastic surgeon’s office today. Everything is healing up pretty nicely according to them. I did express some concern about possible infection to the nurse practitioner (NP) due to the increased red look of the wound over the past few days. So, she prescribed an antibiotic for me to take for the next eight days, just in case.
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Back to the plastic surgery office again today, and another good report.
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Today was the second post operation visit to the plastic surgeon’s office. I got another good report and they want to see me back in a week. We’ve now been scheduled for weekly visits.
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Today was the first post operation visit to the plastic surgeon’s office. I got a good report and they want to see me back in a week.
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It’s been a very long time, over 10 years, since I’ve had a Primary Care Physician, but this morning I met with one to have a baseline physical so he could approve me for the pending melanoma excision surgery. There wasn’t much to the visit, not as much as I was expecting at least, but he seems like a nice kid and I liked him. And yes, I said “kid” because I’m approaching 40 years old and though he was probably not much younger than me, boy did he look young! I guess I’m already turning into an old man. 🙂
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We met with the plastic surgeon who, due to the size of the resulting wound from my pending excision surgery, will be taking a layer of skin from my thigh and grafting it to the melanoma excision wound to try and help speed up recovery time.
I would like to point out that this doctor impressed me because when he was discussing recovery care with us he asked us about insurance, which we do not have. When he found out we don’t have any medical insurance, he was genuinely concerned that we could be put into serious financial hardship by the bills for the services he would be providing. He made sure we knew we could discuss financial aid with his office. If you ever read this blog post, thank you sir!
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Today we met with the surgeon who will be performing the excision of the melanoma. He informed us he would be performing a wide excision because their policy is to remove a margin of the skin 2 cm past the visible melanoma to make sure no cancer cells have been left in nearby skin. In my situation this will result in the removal of about an 6 cm circle of skin all the way down to the fascia. The surgeon informed us that due to the size of the resulting wound, he wants to get a plastic surgeon involved to cover the wound with a graft to help speed up my recovery.