For all of you who've been following my status know that I had a minor surgery performed on my foot today... The skin has to be tested for cancer or other malfunctions, because that's what it is. It doesn't look normal and... it's spreading, and... I didn't have it before Multiple Sclerosis...
Now to my surgery today. I suppose it all has to do with the MS. Maybe with my injections, the medication description says that changes of the skin can occur. So maybe it's that?
I was so scared, because I didn't know what to expect and I had nobody to come along... plus no ride, public transportation was the key today *sigh*
Well, I didn't see the surgery at all, because I had to lay flat down, and my belly is so big, that I didn't see past it *lol* Then I felt like just the stitches of injections the whole time, for about 10 minutes, and... that was it obviously (?). Altogether I spent one hour at the doctor's.
I can't see much of it now either, it just itches. There is a big bandaid covering the punched site. She (the doc) sew it together with one stitch and that has to be removed in two weeks. No water should get on or into the wound, and I'll have to put iodine on it tonight *yikes* :( that's when I'll get to see it for the first time! She'll also provide the result from the lab in two weeks.
What it is? Well I don't know, but in June last year I started getting little tiny red dots on the skin of my left foot. At first I thought it would be an allergy or a rash or something and didn't think much of it. Maybe a reaction to one of my new slippers? Over the summer it bothered me to look at them dark red spots, they increased, got bigger and started spreading higher. They went up till my ankle and even started on the other foot.
One day I told my house doctor about it and said my research on the internet showed it's what they call Petechiae. A harmless malfunction of the white blood cells or something.
He said, no, it's not that and that the skin doctor should check it one day. It doesn't itch or anything, it just doesn't look nice, but I don't go swimming anyway, so just Peter sees it and it doesn't bother him.
Now I started thinking... well, if this stuff spreads until it reaches my arms or even my face (!!!) I couldn't handle that! :-/ So I let her check it.
She basically said in December that it doesn't seem to be skin cancer, and it wouldn't be the dangerous kind, whatever else it is.
But she also said she wanted the laboratory to test it, and that's why she needed to perform this skin punch biopsy today.
I'm fine, just a little worried about having to shower tonight... How am I gonna do that? With my leg wrapped around my neck, or what? *lol*
Anyway, that's my story. I felt like sharing and for my fellow MSers to know!
Stay healthy, all of you and thanks for paying attention to my blog.
And here is a photo I googled, no it's not mine, but it shows how it looks like...
Now to my surgery today. I suppose it all has to do with the MS. Maybe with my injections, the medication description says that changes of the skin can occur. So maybe it's that?
I was so scared, because I didn't know what to expect and I had nobody to come along... plus no ride, public transportation was the key today *sigh*
Well, I didn't see the surgery at all, because I had to lay flat down, and my belly is so big, that I didn't see past it *lol* Then I felt like just the stitches of injections the whole time, for about 10 minutes, and... that was it obviously (?). Altogether I spent one hour at the doctor's.
I can't see much of it now either, it just itches. There is a big bandaid covering the punched site. She (the doc) sew it together with one stitch and that has to be removed in two weeks. No water should get on or into the wound, and I'll have to put iodine on it tonight *yikes* :( that's when I'll get to see it for the first time! She'll also provide the result from the lab in two weeks.
What it is? Well I don't know, but in June last year I started getting little tiny red dots on the skin of my left foot. At first I thought it would be an allergy or a rash or something and didn't think much of it. Maybe a reaction to one of my new slippers? Over the summer it bothered me to look at them dark red spots, they increased, got bigger and started spreading higher. They went up till my ankle and even started on the other foot.
One day I told my house doctor about it and said my research on the internet showed it's what they call Petechiae. A harmless malfunction of the white blood cells or something.
He said, no, it's not that and that the skin doctor should check it one day. It doesn't itch or anything, it just doesn't look nice, but I don't go swimming anyway, so just Peter sees it and it doesn't bother him.
Now I started thinking... well, if this stuff spreads until it reaches my arms or even my face (!!!) I couldn't handle that! :-/ So I let her check it.
She basically said in December that it doesn't seem to be skin cancer, and it wouldn't be the dangerous kind, whatever else it is.
But she also said she wanted the laboratory to test it, and that's why she needed to perform this skin punch biopsy today.
I'm fine, just a little worried about having to shower tonight... How am I gonna do that? With my leg wrapped around my neck, or what? *lol*
Anyway, that's my story. I felt like sharing and for my fellow MSers to know!
Stay healthy, all of you and thanks for paying attention to my blog.
And here is a photo I googled, no it's not mine, but it shows how it looks like...
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