A couple of years ago I wrote the following post, where I detailed my journey through some skin cancer treatments.
Life Update : Dude, what’s wrong with your face?
Fast forward a couple of years and here we are again. Fortunately I didn’t need anything chopped off this time, but I did need to repeat the treatment on my face.
In case you can’t be bothered to read the first post, this involves putting a chemo therapy cream on your face twice a day for 4 weeks. Anything that is cancerous or pre-cancerous will effectively get burnt off and scab. Nice. This is what I look like after 4 weeks of treatment this time.
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Of course, this was nowhere near as bad as it was last time. I looked more like Deadpool in these photos. 🙂
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Last time it was in the middle of the pandemic, so I hardly saw anyone, and I was wearing a mask when I was outside. This time I’ve been out in public, which is kind-of embarrassing. I get some funny looks at the gym. I feel like I want to tell people it’s not contagious. 🙂
So now it is just moisturizing about 4 times a day for a few weeks. Last time it took a couple of weeks for the scabs to drop off, then a couple of months for most of the redness to go. I’m hoping that will be a bit quicker this time, as it’s not as bad. Fingers crossed…
Once it’s healed I’ve got to treat a couple of patches again, but I won’t be doing my whole face, so it shouldn’t be quite so bad.
My next check up will be in a year, so I might be writing another post much sooner…
Cheers
Tim…
PS. I forgot to mention, there is nothing life threatening about this, so it’s not real drama.
