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Friday, November 12, 2010

The MOHS nose

Here I am, after years of protecting my fair skin, facing MOHS treatment. For those blessedly unfamiliar, this is a procedure in which layer after layer is removed until no cancer is found. Now, true, the cure rate is somewhere between 97 and 99 percent. Yay. But I also don't know how much of my nose they will take. One layer? Two? Ten? Even the woman who called me today said "We don't know how you will be closed up." In other words, it depends on how far down they go. The word "graft" was interjected in there somewhere. WTF? Why bother.