Stitchless

My stitches are gone, and not a minute too soon. I definitely waited too long to take them out, but I wanted my surgeon to do it so he could do a check up as well, and he was on vacation for 2 weeks. So I have nice little red marks on either side of my incision that I hope heal up quick. Sigh. Oh well. The good news is that the incision looks like it is healing well so far, and I can now start using Mederma to try and minimize the scar. I'm not quite sure how much this sucker is going to minimize though, because its freaking huge. While I knew it was long before since, hey, its on my leg, I didn't really think about the scar in comparison to the mole removed. Tonight I was re-reading the pathology report (no residual melanoma found, woohoo!), and it got me thinking about how small the original mole was compared to this gash in my leg. Its much better to have this gash and not have cancer, but wow. Its quite the comparison. I also have a bump at the top of my incision, and a dip from where they removed all that skin. My doctor says it should smooth out over the next 3-4 months. If it doesn't, I get to back and see him. If it does, I don't have to see him for a year, when he will just do an annual check of the incision/scar. Fingers crossed it smooths out on its own. And, as I stated before, better to have this bump than cancer.