New Dermatologist!

Ladies who Lunch

*I fit in a pair of jeans that did not fit in the summer! Woot!*

I finally had my appointment today with Dr. Duke in Mystic, CT. She is THE best skin doctor in the state by golly. If you can remember (cause I cant), I scheduled an appointment to be a new patient back in the Spring/Summer. Today was the day. I picked a cute black and white outfit with black flats, my fanciest purse and my hair down my back. It is a good thing I did. I think my self consciousness would have shown through if I had not. Every woman patient was dressed to the 9s. They are those rich bitches that get botox in the morning and then have a ladies lunch afterward. So I didnt fit into the square peg but my ass was big enough to cover the hole.
  It was a quick visit because I really do not have anything going on right now. Well I do have skin tags on my neck but insurance does not cover that...it is like $100 to burn them all off. Maybe after Christmas I will do that for my birthday.
She was very nice. Big smile on her face. I like her. She explained about skin cancer and gave me a informative pamphlet. She did an upper body check..I nixed the lower cause I am dealing with MaryMary this week.
 I love Mystic. It is a beautiful place. My parents used to take me there all the time when I was young. It is on the water. There are tall ships. It just feels New Englandy. I guess you could say the same about my city also. Anyhoo..after my appointment was over and I forked over the $25 co-pay, I was on a mission. I pointed the car in the total opposite direction of Mystic to get to the cider mill. Sweet Cider, dozen sugary cider donuts, and one cored and cut Mcintosh apple with caramel poured onto top for Natalie.
I am home now. It is time to change into my frumpy clothes again. I have so much housework to fucking do. I get no help..you know my song of woe..i do not have to sing it for you.
 Oh! I did season sorting yesterday in my room and I decided to try stuff on. OMG! I found clothes that did not fit me last winter that fit perfectly now. I found jeans that I bought in the summer that I could not even dream of buttoning..I can button them! Granted I am squeezed a bit and I would never sport a camel toe..so those pants need me to lose a bit more weight. I am so happy. I do realize that I need to buy some jeans at Sally`s. I do not have that many pairs of good long jeans.
So yeah! I have no scale but I have lost weight cause clothes are fitting.Woot!

My nose ring is being a pain in the ass. It keeps going back into my nose. I was told to keep cleaning it, take Advil for the swelling, and eventually that shit will stop. I hope so. I wake up in the morning and I have to push the earring through a film of smegma and skin. Sounds appetizing huh? I still love the little fucker. It looks good on me. I used to think it wouldn't and that was part of the reason why I never did it. I am glad I did.
What kind of person am I turning into? Long hair. Nose ring. Tattoos. Driving a Jeep.  Allowing pot smoking in my area. I am just laid back. I do have my hangups but otherwise i think I am growing into this new person that I have become in my 40s. I haven't decided if I like her yet. :)

Okay enough of my weirdness. I still have not changed my clothes.

This is NOT a flea circus

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I just got done giving Perla a flea bath. Yesterday it was Lu, and the baby Milo. He did not get a bath but he got sprayed down with flea treatment. The carpets downstairs have been Boraxed and today (if it is NOT too fucking blazing hot) I will do upstairs. Oliver is being a pain in the ass. He wont let me treat him. He tears my skin apart.  I will have to think of some way to do it for him so he does not suffer. I think Fred brought them home with him from the shop. The shop owner has two bloodhounds that live at the shop. He treats those dogs better than some people kids so do not think they are neglected. I just think they probably havent had a flea treatment. Because we have NEVER had them this badly. The animals were covered. Now they are happy. Blissfully unbitten and uncrawled upon. I feel itchy all the time because of it. I know I do not have any on me because I look but just talking about the damn things makes me itch. *scratch scratch scratch*
Hopefully I will get this nipped in the bud within the week.

We bought a car!! It is a 07 Jeep Liberty Sport. It is white and it is cute and it drives really well and it has low mileage on it. Score! We pick it up tomorrow. I want to drive someplace but I do not know where...
As I look around I see my house is a wreck. It has been so hot and humid even with the AC on that the only thing I get done is cleaning the kitchen so we can eat. I need to wash floors, sweep, vacuum, scrub. etc.  *scratch scratch scratch*

Oh here is something fucking weird. That lesion on my wrist. I was just able to peel off the top in a non gross manner with no pain. Kind of like when you peel off skin from a sunburn and it it healed like looking or some shit on the inside. Maybe I wont have to go to the dreaded yucky derma! Crossing fingers.
I need to get moving. Insurance for the car!

I long to go to the beach

1920s bathing beauty

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It is hot and I want to go swimming. Unfortunately I have another lesion. This one is on my upper wrist. Damn!
I am taking Natalie into the burbs to stay at a friends house till tomorrow morning. My hair is super assed curly from the pin curls and I have to mess with that later to do a hairstyle. I will try to get Chelsea to take a picture of it but she is notorious for saying no to many things. Mhm.
 Just in a funky mood. I have a heavy period, it is hot, I have another lesion, and we are buying a newer car.
Lots of stress going on in my life. It should be good stress but it isnt. I will worry that we cannot afford it.
Okay..I gotta go. Time to bring the kid.

I love that photo and I just had to post it.

I will survive..heh heh!

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Yup, that is my neck with my fat line, skin tags, and surgery site. I have big ole hoops in too. I love hoop earrings. I will probably wear them when I am old and grey.
It is a Squamous Cell Carcinoma. It is nothing to worry about. The only thing is I have to be vigilant with the sunscreen, start getting some hats to wear in the sun, and keep a close eye on my skin. From what I have read, Squamous tend to come back in the same vicinity. I am okay and the site does not hurt. There is one stitch that I have to go back and have removed..probably another co-pay for that!

I called the dermatologist of my dreams today. Remember back last month when I said that it would be August before I got in. I should have made an appointment then. New Derm patient (ME) has an appointment on October 17th. ROFL! I hope no new cancers pop up before then.  She is THE best in this area of our state and I wanna be her patient. I am 42 years old and have already started on the skin cancer train. This Derm now said that I was young to be having this pop up already. That is me, always an early bloomer. Boobs, period, and skin cancer! Oh Joy.

So I am going to putter around the house today and get some work done. Hopefully this spot wont hurt too bad when I have to clean it.

When life gives you lemons....

Meyer Lemon

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I am going to salt cure some Meyer Lemons that I bought yesterday. They can keep up to a year in the jar. I am pretty sure Chelsea and I can think of some great things to do with them.
Got a call from the Dermatologists office yesterday. That lesion cut off my neck is skin cancer. I have to go back on April 7th to have her do whatever to it, to make sure it is all gone. I am going to stress that I do not want some big ugly scar. She needs to be careful..it isnt like she is digging this out of my back or something. It is my throat, front and center!
 I was so hoping it was a pre-cancerous sun spot, because I want to drop this Dr like a bad habit and make an appointment with another one. The other one is wonderful but there is a waiting period until August for first appointment.  So I will just let her do what she has got to do, and be done with her ass.
The chick on the phone says it is a common skin cancer and I have to come in. As I am writing down the appointment, I ask her what it is called....this is so I can obsess about it online *smirk*. She again says, It is a common skin cancer. Umm! That is not telling me if it is Squamous Cell or Basal Cell. She blurted out something I could not comprehend and I just gave up. She did not say Melanoma! Melanoma is bad bad bad! So I did some reading.
If it is Basal cell that is the weakest of the three types. It wont kill you. But if you ignore them, they can be very disfiguring when they have to be removed. The other is Squamous Cell. That one is sort of like Basal with the disfiguring but you could actually die from them..that is if you like totally ignore them.  If I get another one of these fuckers, then the one of my face that was classified a pre-cancerous sun spot will have to be re-evaluated and maybe given a treatment because it has like 40% of coming back as cancer in that spot.
So this is where I am today. I am going to Spring clean, make Fried Chicken, and preserve some Meyer Lemons. Here is the link to the site that Chelsea sent me on how to do it.