I got my COVID-19 test (the rapid test was provided as an ’emergency’ since surgery was already scheduled) and there’s nothing to it, you guys. The swab is very, very small and there is ZERO pain involved.
Since my test came back negative, my surgery was scheduled for today. Two squamous cell skin cancers were removed — one on my chest on one on my temple. While the one on my chest could likely be blamed on sun, it wasn’t a factor insofar as the one in the hairline at my temple.
Because it’s not a place I can see when I look in the mirror, who knows how long that sucker lurked there! But it’s gone now and I’ll look like Frankenstein for a week or three. 🙂
I expected today to be similar to the setting where the biopsies were performed. A chair like that in a dentist’s office… blouse unbuttoned to the area… a couple shots and done. That’s NOT what it was like. At all!
I was put in a gown, escorted to a surgery room and made to lie flat on a surgery table. The first to numb was my chest. The shots stung but nothing awful — palatal injections at the dentist are much worse. But the ones on my temple? Those shots were not ones I’d care to repeat in the near future. Or ever.
The procedure was cake and I didn’t need to fill my prescription for pain meds. Surgery is in now in the books in this year of the COVID.
In other news, my sister-in-law, Tammy, is very sick with COVID symptoms. Her doctor prescribed the current medications being used to treat the virus and scheduled testing. Apparently, the whole thing about limited tests being available here was real. She and my favorite brother were both tested, but then told there’s a global shortage of the reagents required to process and they won’t have results for 5-7 days.
TIL (today I learned): Serial killer Randy Woodfield was drafted to play for the Green Bay Packers but was cut over a series of indecent exposure arrests. He would later be found to be the I-5 killer, thought to have been responsible for over 40 murders. Click if you wanna know more about ole’ Randy…