Cancer anxiety hard to bare.

[Joggyjade]

I was feeling really anxious this morning before I went to the skin cancer clinic for my regular check-up. I have fair skin and red hair and I live in Western Australia. Last time I went for a check out the old man with the bad breath really freaked me out. The way they go over every inch of your skin only centimetres away from their nose with their little eye thing on. This time was not so bad he wasn't old all wrinkly and he didn't have bad breath and he was nice enough to offer me a sheet to cover up the bits that he was not looking at which made me feel a little more respectable. Unfortunately he found a cancerous growth on my neck but he burnt it off straight away he told me that it would feel like a little tattoo well I'm glad I've never had a tattoo at all because it was extremely painful. He also found two lesions on my arms that were suspect and so he froze them while he was there. I have only ever had to go every two years but now that he has found something it will be every 6 months for the rest of my life. Well my anxiety levels were running very high this morning before the appointment I feel a lot safer now that these moles have been detected and treated and that I am now on the 6 monthly checklist. He said that the scabs will fall off in a couple of weeks.

[HearYou]

Hope you are ok now. But perhaps this not really appropriate way to seek help regarding your medical concerns.