Eye Update

So...a quick update on my eye.  Turns out it was cancer...a "basal cell carcinoma."  Of course that is not the news I was hoping for, but I have since learned that if you have to get skin cancer, that is definitely the type you want to get.  It doesn't go to the brain or organs, and is not life threatening in 99.8% of the cases.  I am very thankful for that!

The crummy part is that it is "aggressive growing" and in a very delicate place (my lower eyelid, inside my eyelashes).  My surgery to remove the growth will be next Thursday, July 14th.  The dermatologist will perform a "MOHS" procedure to remove the cancer while saving as much healthy tissue around it as possible.  I will then go the next day, July 15th, to a plastic surgeon in Atlanta for the second part of the surgery to have the area closed back up.  Because of my age and the location of the cancer, they need a plastic surgeon to do the second part to make sure my eye will close properly and not look too different than my other eye.

So...asking for prayers that everything goes smoothly and the cancer is just a little chunk that they can cut out and stitch up without major reconstruction.

Also...GO GET CHECKED OUT if you have any question on any skin abnormalities. It's just a short visit to a dermatologist and it's totally worth it.  If I hadn't caught this one soon, it could've grown so big that I'd lose my entire lower eyelid and have to have a major surgery that would leave me without eyelashes and an obviously reconstructed eye.  Big thanks to the BIG GUY upstairs for planting the bug in my ear to go get checked!