Last Thursday I had surgery to remove a rather large squamous cell carcinoma on my forehead above my left eye. That's skin cancer. I don't need to tell you to wear sun screen. You know you should. This is not about that.
This is about the fact that I now look like I've had half a face lift. She had to cut down to just above my eyebrow and then across in both directions to pull skin up over the "wound." It's big and it's ugly. Trust me.
And here's what else. My left eyebrow is up, my left eyelid is up, my left eye is wider open and looks bigger than my right eye. I don't like it. I want my left eyelid droopy, like my right eyelid. A person my age should have droopy eyelids.
Tomorrow I get the stitches out--and there are MANY. I hope then the swelling will soon go down and my face will again have its normal, balanced, symmetrical look. Which is, at this time, droopy.
