HILDEGARD VON BLINGEN IS SUCH A GOATED ARTIST NAME

Also it’s wild that cancer is literally just a cell deciding, unilaterally, that it’s going to choose violence and cause unhinged chaos on the rest of the body. Ok that’s all of my uninformed cancer musings for the day thank u for tuning in (3/3)

“Lemme go book a scan and get that tissue cut off of my body and then get it sent to a lab”. And then and ONLY then do you get a YES/NO/MAYBE This is Cancer. Is that wild to anyone else???? Idk maybe I just live under a rock and this is common knowledge. (2/3)

Wooooooo🔋🔋🔋

All in all I am feeling fine, just very tired and sore. I have to stay off my feet and keep the bandage on and dry (no showers) for two days 🥲

My stitches are dissolvable and I have to return in six weeks for a check up.

If there isn’t any more cancer (what they call “clear margins”), then I’m all good. If they find more, I have to get booked for another surgery.

The type of surgery I had was “slow Mohs”, where they take out the tumour with a margin around it. And then they slice it up into slides so it can be assessed for any remaining cancer.

They were done under two hours and one doctor got to work dyeing and slicing up the tissue to get sent to be processed. I got stitched up and we talked about sewing and cosplay lol.

We covered GOT, HOTD, the new Jerry Springer docuseries, our fave spots in Montréal, pets, my work, their work, etc etc

They poked me with countless pokes of lidocaine first to numb the area, and then got to slicing and dicing. You don’t feel pain but you feel all the tugging and pressure. I was sweating buckets and trying not to think of what was happening so I made lots of small talk with the doctors lol

Ok so what they don’t tell you is that for most sarcoma surgeries you’re awake lol. I learned that OHIP has scaled back using general anaesthesia for procedures, even stuff like hip replacements and knee surgeries. You’ll just be sitting there awake while a team of doctors is slicing and sewing🫠