{"id":3480,"date":"2013-05-01T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2013-05-07T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:49:09","slug":"my-carcinoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/my-carcinoma\/","title":{"rendered":"My Carcinoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends insisted I document the process of having a basal cell carcinoma (scary name, 99% treatment success rate) removed from my face. I was hesitant at first, but it seems silly not to write about the process of having this surgically removed. After all, what is the purpose of a personal blog if it doesn&#8217;t get personal every now and then? For those of you who think blogs are self-indulgent ego-trips, stop reading and go do something for yourself. The way I look at it, maybe somebody else might want to know about the personal experience of having a carcinoma removed via the Mohs Surgical Procedure, and maybe they will stumble on this. Maybe this will be helpful to someone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3481\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130503-111202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3481\" alt=\"My own little basal cell carcinoma, just below my left eye. Hurray.\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130503-111202-300x268.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130503-111202-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130503-111202-624x558.jpg 624w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130503-111202.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My own little basal cell carcinoma, just below my left eye. Hurray.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is an image of my face on about May 1. The carcinoma is the red, misshapen dot and the mis-formed skin around it. The whole thing is just below my left eye (mirror-reversed in the image, of course). When this \u00a0little guest is not destroying the healthy tissue on my face and generally acting annoying and bleedy, it looks like a chicken pox or acne scar. Such a simple thing, and easy for someone who is not a trained physician to overlook. Thankfully, I have an attentive general practitioner in my corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends insisted I document the process of having a basal cell carcinoma (scary name, 99% treatment success rate) removed from my face. I was hesitant at first, but it seems silly not to write about the process of having this surgically removed. After all, what is the purpose of a personal blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[168,115,169,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-3480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"tag-cancer","8":"tag-medicine","9":"tag-personal","10":"tag-photo","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}