October 2015 Pictures

Photos taken October 2015

The scar shows more in certain lighting

Six Years Later

I just want to thank everyone who has written to me and shared their experiences over the years. I still read every comment that is posted, and try to reply to all.

This is how the scar is looking now, in 2015, six years after the graft. 

NY Times Article (thank you, Garden Girl)

Excellent article shared by a fellow blogger.

An excerpt:
The specialists point to an epidemic, noting there are two million to four million skin cancers diagnosed in the United States each year, with a huge increase in basal cell carcinomas, the type Ms. Little had, which usually do not metastasize. (A small fraction of the cancers are melanomas, a far more serious condition.) But, said Dr. Cary Gross, a cancer epidemiologist at Yale University Medical School, “The real question is: Is there a true epidemic or is there an epidemic of biopsies and treatments that are not needed? I think the answer is both.”

Full article from 2014 here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/health/patients-costs-skyrocket-specialists-incomes-soar.html?_r=0