PLEASE USE SUNSCREEN!! BEWARE GRAPHIC PICTURES!!

I have been bugging Doug for a while now to go see a dermatologist, he has these little sores on his face and head that will scab up and bleed and are almost always red. Well last Monday he finally decided to go. They biopsied 3 areas and froze about a dozen other areas. They called him Thursday with the results...Squamous Cell Carcinoma! What?? I was thinking they would come back pre-cancanerous and they would just freeze them off. Which they have done before. Squamous cell carcinoma is 2ND most common type of skin cancer. It is rarely found in anyone under the age of 50 and they are more likely to be males. They scheduled Doug to go into the office today to remove them, they used a procedure called Mohs where you go in have them cut off a piece and right there in the office they freeze the sample and look at it under the microscope to see if they got it all. So we had to wait about an hour between cuts, but luckily for Doug it only took two tries to get it all, we were really worried cause we kind of found out about this fast and didn't have much information about it, so we searched the Internet and got ourselves really scared, the pictures looked horrible! They told us there is a plastic surgeon on hand if they needed one, which of course freaked us out more, being that two of these were on his nose, Doug was terrified of what he would end up looking like. Well they were able to close the holes up without a skin graft and the doctor says he will heal nicely, it is hard to tell by looking at him now, but i know he will be fine. Doug told me i could only put this up on my blog if i made sure i told everyone to wear sunscreen! The doctor said most of the damage is done by the time you are 10 years old. If you stay out of the sun as an adult sometimes it will actually heal itself, but if you continue to go out in the sun unprotected the more likely it will turn into something bad. The doctor also said once you've had Squamous cell cancer you will more than likely have more where they came from, so Doug will have to see the Dermatologist every 6 months to keep everything in check! I feel bad that Doug has to go threw all of this, but i am glad we caught it before it got super bad, people can lose there noses and ears because they didn't go in in time. Doug is super worried about looking ugly, but i will love him no matter what he looks like, he is my everything, besides i have an ugly crooked nose so we can have not so perfect noses together!
If you only read one paragraph of this post, let it be this one, please use sunscreen and if you have something wheather it be a mole or a sore or spot that you have noticed has changed or not healing, please go see your doctor!!



stitching him up
before closing him up
In the waiting room waiting with all the other people who were being cut on today
The one on his head
All stiched up