Wick – Double Diamonds: Week 11, 13 July

This week has been busier than last week, for a change. For the most part, it’s been busy doing nothing, and this is intentional. For last Tuesday, I had day case surgery on my scalp. I’d been to the local hospital for a biopsy at the end of May. Then the hospital phoned a fortnight ago to say they had an opening in their surgery schedule, would I like the appointment? At this stage, I hadn’t received the results of the biopsy, which was read over the phone. The biopsy had revealed a basal cell carcinoma, which does not spread but needs excision. Another sunny day The surgery was done under local anaesthetic, which was topped up regularly whenever I said, ‘Ouch!’. Mostly, though, I didn’t feel anything but could hear the hair being shaved and the zap of the cauterisation tool. The surgeon said the lesion was large at about 1 cm, and a 4 mm margin also needed to be removed, creating a wound of nearly 2 cm (that’s 0.79”). Near the end of the procedure, the surgeon recommended a skin…