I’m having my nose shortened today

Hope all goes well for you PamelaJ1

Have you tried to start a conversation? I have regular injections into my eyeball, and the waiting room in that clinic is always silent, people can't even play on their phones because we've all had drops to enlarge our pupils and can't see to read.
The ortho clinic is a complete contrast and we chat and joke and have quite a party whilst waiting.

Quite often wards are very quiet and subdued before a procedure but as people gradually return from either theatre or just having the procedure done, the atmosphere lightens and by the time to go home you don’t want to leave your new ‘friends’.
I hope every thing goes well, with a successful outcome PamelaJ1.

Best wishes to you.
I completely agree we should all promote the use of spf creams, I cringe at what I did ( or didn’t) do to my skin when younger.

Just come back from the second attempt to rid me of my problem and am now best friends with the woman next to me.

Stage 1a melanoma removed from my right forearm 2 years ago, plus sentinel lymph mode excision (armpit) and biopsy, plus 2 Basal Cell carcinomas removed, one from my back, and the other from my left forearm. Now on 6 monthly checks. Touch wood, all seems well now. All this is courtesy of a childhood spent in Singapore in the 60's, complicated by time spent in my adult life living in both Cyprus and the Algarve. Far too much sunbathing. If you must bake yourself, which is certainly not recommended these days, Factor 50, or more, liberally applied, please.

The last procedure I had was an endoscopy and colonoscopy combined 4 years ago. Not pleasant and I especially hated the fasting for several days beforehand to clean out the bowel. When it was over I was in the recovery room with 2 other women and they brought us tea and toast. That toast was one of the most wonderful things I have ever tasted. We were all chatting about our experiences.

I was sat with 3 other women awaiting an endoscopy. We started to chat, instantly clicked and by the end of it we were all in hysterics.

A couple of nurses popped their heads round the door to exclaim they'd never had such fun and joy in a waiting room.

We're all still in contact

And good luck with your nose, 50PamelaJ1!

I wish you well Pamela and thankyou for your timely advice with regard to sun protection. Good luck .

I hope all goes well Pamela. Thank you for the warning about sunbathing, although I'm such a cold creature, it takes an absolute heatwave to induce me to shed my cardigan.

Hope all goes well
As children we lived by the coast and were always in the sea and on the beach. Suncream was not available then. Our Mums just put calamine lotion on once we were burned red!
As an adult I have never sunbathed because due to my Irish heritage I am fair skinned and red haired. I have never used a sunbed.
I have had several basal cell carcinomas removed from my arms, leg and nose which were a result if no protection in childhood.
One on my nose they said they would probably have to graft skin from behind my ear as my nose is not very fleshy. The surgeon however, just managed to avoid that by clever joining.

Let us know how you get on.

Best of luck and you are home soon armed with instructions about sun screen.

I had skin cancer on my face and duly arrived home with all the instructions buzzing in my head.

What I had never appreciated was how soon sun screen gets out of date. So anything left from one summer is no good the following. I use 30 factor in winter and 50 factor in the summer now. UVA and B is essential.

Best of luck Pamela

Hope all goes well for you PamelaJ1, very wise advice about sun protection.

ExDancer I had a botulinum injection into my eye last week. The consultant wants to see how the rogue muscles respond to the Botox before deciding on next steps. Surgery would be risky so fingers crossed this does the trick. Has it helped you?

Hope all goes well this afternoon, PamelaJ, and those of you discussing injections into eyes have made the back of my legs go all wobbly at the thought.........

Hope all goes well.

I was recently in the day ward the curtains were drawn between us and everyone was quiet I ask if my neighbour wanted to be behind the curtain she said no so I opened it Everyone else opened theirs and we all started chatting it made the hours pass so much quicker and we all got quite friendly

I had MOHS on my nose a few years back.
I hope yours goes as well as mine did.
I had the skin drawn from above my nose and a long neat line of stitches from the top down. It has faded well and people say they don't notice
I am grateful to the dermatologist who performed the operation. Best of all the BCC hasn't returned.
I spent my formative years in New Zealand where skin cancer is very common among the pale faced pakehas.

Sending best wishes PamelaJ1

Thank you for the reminder about sun cream.
Despite a chill this morning, I was out today and felt as if the sun was catching my face in the afternoon.

Is it a British thing? Chatting to people in situations like this, in queues for instance?
Although the last time I was in hospital having tea and biscuits after a procedure, the woman I chatted to was Polish and it turned out she was a friend of a friend' sister. 😁
It's amazing the coincidences you find wherever you are.

I had my nose “narrowed” for the same reason a year ago, using the MOHS method and a skin graft from just in front of one ear. I was told on the day it had all been removed. My nose never hurt during recovery but the skin graft site was very sore for quite a while. The graft has given me a facelift on one side !

I always wear factor 50 in summer and in winter I use a tinted moisturiser which has factor 20.

It is quite confusing the advice on sunscreen containers. Most have a small logo of an open lidded container with the number of months it’s good for alongside.

I will see if I have the advice Nivea gave me.

zeddy I was hoping for a face lift but she took the skin from my neck.
I have a black sponge sewn to the end of my nose to protect the graft. If I was yellow I’m sure people would think I was going to
A fancy dress party as Pluto!
I have used sun cream for all of my adult life but grew up in hot countries and was very fair. It was more common for children to get sunburnt than to get a cold! (Maybe I’m exaggerating a little but not much)
Anyway the cancerous cells are no more….till the next time anyway and I am so relieved to have some nose left.
Thanks to all of you for your good wishes.