The beauty of downtown LA in the early morning! This is where Keck Medicine's dermatology clinic - the one where they do surgery - is located, and so the bottom pic is me, bandaged up, but before they opened me up further to put stitches in (which was a fascinating experience, since my extremely expert surgeon had a medical student in tow, to whom she was explaining what she was doing and all her reasoning in meticulous detail). This is the second time that I've had surgery to remove a skin cancer, and was much nastier than the time before, not because it was deeper (thank goodness it wasn't), but it was broader, and that made me much harder to sew together. I will have a large scar down my cheek, which apparently will start to look better in six months. Better than what? I don't get to see it for another 36 hours: it's currently swaddled under a huge pressure bandage, and half my ear is covered. Is this an opportunity to wear the remaining half of a pair of earrings from which, sadly, I've lost the second one? To go as Van Gogh to some Hallowe'en event? Alas, I'll probably do nothing more ambitious than use myself as a walking Wear Sunscreen public service announcement to my class tomorrow ...
It's starting to ache rather: I think those 42 novocaine shots are wearing off ...
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