Some of you know that I have been battling skin cancer for the last year. I have had several very fast moving squamous cell cancers.

It started out at the end of last May like an ingrown hair on my shin and began to hurt within a week. Small bump, like a shaving bump. I got in to see my dermatologist immediately and he did the biopsy and we got the results on June 1st that it was malignant.

My Mom died suddenly on June 6th and I was in such a fog and in so much grief that I didn't think a thing about the cancer.

My dermatologist had made an appointment for me to have surgery on June 25th or I probably wouldn't have followed up on it. I had one removed from my shoulder years ago that was no big deal. I have a lot of skin damage from too much sun my younger years and see my dermatologist every 6 months for growth removals, mostly on my back.

I had Moh's surgery on my left leg last June and it required 4 surgeries to remove all the cancer cells. The wound was so large that it had to heal as an open wound. I have been doing wound care now for 11 months and it is almost healed.

This cancer was life threatening and I could have lost my leg or even lost my life if I had not had it removed. It was about 1 month to the day from the time it popped up to the time I had surgery.

The wound was about the size of a baseball and very deep. It has healed like a servere burn from the bottom up and the scar is now a bit bigger than the size of a golf ball.

I had another Moh's surgery a week before Christmas that only required 1 surgery so it healed in about 4 weeks. I had 4 more pop up and the surgeon was able to get all the cancers with the biopsy.

I found out my vitamin D level was very low and started taking extra vitamin D in November since it is being studied for MS and skin cancer.

My March visit with my surgeon and dermatologist shows that I am now cancer free. The sun damage growths that were removed were all benign. I now have to have a complete body check for growths every 4 months.

I'm going to post one picture of my scar because the other pictures are just too gross.

It's been one hel of a year for me.