Lou, I’m glad you had a good Christmas and are happy back at work. Really hope your surgeon can give you some effective tips for evening out the scar. Do you feel that it’s improving at all, albeit slowly?

Ok here, a new granddaughter arrived just before Christmas, so happy days ️

I had my biopsy 9 December and about a week ago I finally got f/u - the spot on the side of my nose is a benign mole (hooray) but the eyelid spot is bcc, not a surprise. Unfortunately the next step is seemingly a telephone appointment with a practice nurse to discuss the Mohs surgery, this is on 9 March and no idea how long the waiting list will be after that. I called the hospital to try to get some insight into the process but the phone person was kind of unpleasant and not helpful at all, so I guess I just need to wait. Please keep me posted on your progress, I think of you and Ed often.

Hi Dawn, congratulations on the birth of your Granddaughter, what a lovely piece of news and a fantastic way to start the new year.

I’m pleased to hear that the mole on the side of your nose is benign, what a relief! You know exactly what you’re dealing with now. I found the phase that you are in now (waiting for surgery) the hardest part. There was so much worry, anxiety and uncertainty going round in my head. I found it hard to focus and concentrate on anything. I also lost my appetite for about 6 months and couldn’t sleep at night. This made doing the day to day stuff really hard. I just couldn’t get my head round the idea of having a skin graft on my face. I want you to know that although I’m still going through a roller coaster ride of emotions, the current not so good days are nothing like they were before I had surgery. There is light at the end of the tunnel! 
I’m sorry to hear you’ve had unhelpful staff on the other end of the phone, I think they forget what an anxious time this is for the patient. Fingers crossed you don’t have to wait too long before you get a surgery date and then you can put all this behind you.