Hi all,

Ron doesn't like me posting his health issues on facebook and I just needed to vent a little...so thanks for listening. A couple of weeks ago Ron went to his Dermotologist to check out an area underneath his chin. They did a biopsy that turned out to be positive for squamus cell carcinoma.

He had an appt. with his Doc at UCLA on the 6th to do a clean up lazer procedure on his gums. His Dermo faxed the results on his neck to the Doc at UCLA. What was suppose to be a no big deal lazer procedure turned into a 6 hour surgery.

His Doc had to call in a plastic surgeon. There were two teams working on him. The first team removed the skin on his neck that had the cancer. Then the plastic surgeon's team did a skin graft from Ron's right chest and attached it to his neck. He ended up being in the hospital for 6 days. Fortunately he is going to be fine and in a couple of months it will probably look like he had a neck lift!

The main point I want to share is to please always check out anything that looks "weird" because you just never know. Ron and I were both caught off guard by this...

Love you all,

Shelley

Caregiver to husband Ron. Throat Cancer. Finished 35 radiation treatments on 11/21/04. 8/2/11 small lesion on lower gum, laser Procedure to remove. 3/6/12 Doc. removed another lesion on outside of his neck. Did a skin graft from his chest to replace the skin on his neck. Went to Heaven on 6/24/12.