Personal: Cancer, Dinners, Ugly Room, and Kristin

[novak]

Bloody hell. The non-healing sore on the side of my nose turned out not to be just a weird little wound that wouldn't heal, nor an evil killer zit, but cancer. The biopsy I had on Tuesday came back Friday afternoon as a basal cell carcinoma, very basic, non-metastasizing, and not really dangerous. So I won't have to have chemo or radiation, but

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[daisydumont]

i'm glad you got that lesion diagnosed rather than letting it go on unbiopsied. it's good they can treat it surgically without all the other stuff.

it interests me that you've been enjoying Kristin. i never forgave her for turning down the boy with curly brown hair and a pet dog. yes, that's probably the wrong reaction to the story. *g*

[novak]

Yes, although now I'm a little dismayed that the process took over a half a year to get from docs peering at it and prescribing things to the biopsy and diagnosis.

[daysprings]

I'm so sorry to hear about the diagnosis! That's terrible. So glad it can be dealt with, as you say, but it's still frightening. Prayers for you!

[novak]

Actually, it's as happy and Sesame Street a cancer as one could hope for: almost too minor for such a dread word as "cancer." So I'm more than all right! Like I said, I was just glad it was figured out and would now be dealt with in a very matter-of-fact way. My Mum had one on her arm some years back and I think I did all my unnecessary freaking-out when I found out about that (months after she'd had it removed, in fact - naughty Mommy).

[vesta_venus]

Sorry. I hit reply to say something about praying for you and how sorry I am, but you made me laugh with your reference to Sesame Street.

I'm glad you aren't stressing too much about it and that it is so small and contained.

[novak]

:-D

[seraphimsigrist]

well if one is going to have cancer that sort
of melanoma seems the way to go, it can even be
like a dueling scar...
are you going to have a go at the other undset
series, master of hestvigen was it? I never did...
it is from her formally catholic period but
perhaps is not evaluated so highly as krisin...

[novak]

Yes, I'm more than happy to have ended up with something so minor and curable off of all the horrible things on the menu of disease.

I very well might go at that and Gunnar's Daughter (I think I got that title correct), but not right now: this was a "Christmas Break" effort, and I'm really excited to be working on my dissertation instead!

[seraphimsigrist]

remind me what it was on?
you were doing something on the
odes of solomon I recall?
forgive my poor memory...

[blistermoth]

Good thing they caught it before it got *too* serious.

[novak]

This is quite true, particularly given my "glass is half-full" tendencies.

[rightwinger]

Eee... good luck. *prayers*

[novak]

Thanks! But I gather it's so comparatively minor that it seems prayer is already answered, in some sort of temporally-retroactive fashion.

[rightwinger]

I'm very tempted to make some witty crack about Divine timelessness... but, I shan't.

[novak]

I don't think it would be a crack: it seems to me a pretty straightforward exercise in the logic of divine causality, given what we know of divine sovereignty, human freedom, and the command to engage in the practice of intercessory prayer....