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For nigh on 10years now my husband has had treatment on and off for a wart on his finger .

The second week of December he saw a young locum doctor who sent him straight to hospital for a biopsy .

Result Cancer . Big shock.

On Monday he had most of his finger cut away and rebuilt .Husband is a diabetic so we are now waiting to see if the skin graft takes.

Thank goodness it is only a finger it could have been worse as I keep telling him

So sorry to hear of your husbands surgey Quoy,

Was his GP treating him or was he under the Hospital all the time?

Teresa

doctors

He is in the best place now,

Is he under the plastic surgeons?

It is a good thing that the Locum was covering and got your Husband sent for the biopsy.

Teresa

good luck to your hubby Quoy
thank god you had the locum hun x

hoping for a good recovery

saying a little prayer for your hubby for a quick and complete recovery.

All cut away and rebuilt in 2and a half hours on Monday and home Tuesday.

It is giving us a few laughs because it is his left hand and he is left handed .

Needless to say I have to cut his food up ,he is not getting as messy now though when he eats.

Hi Quoy

Met you and Hubby at Newcastle meet.

Wishing him all th best. I'm sure that your sense of humour will help you both through this worrying time.

I hope the finger soon heals. And, as others have said, what a good job it was a young alert locum.

We met at Newcastle as well. Pass my best wishes on to "Gary"

So glad that locum got your o.h. checked out properly, I hope things go ok now and that your o.h.'s G.P. apologises. It's scary to think what could have happened had this not been noticed in time.

Lizx

I hope his finger soon heals, and that no further treatment will be needed


sylvia
xx

its a good job the locum was there,
glad hubby is ok, sending my love x

I hope OH responds well to treatment and his finger soon heals.

Thank goodness for locum who was obviously concerned enough to investigate.

Gwyn

Thank you all for your good wishes

I put this up as a cautionary tale

get any persistent growths looked at

I have several growths, but I am told they are all benign, but you cant help wondering when youfind another!

it is possible of corure that it was benign to begin with, but then turned malignant recently.


OH's sister's husband had a mole on his leg, it was always being checked and regarded as benign ............ but then about 1984 it suddenly changed in size.

It turned out to be melanoma, it spread despite all the treatment he was given, and he died 3 years later at the very young age of 40.


But the same warning that Quoy gave still applies


Get everything checked out.


I too have a lot of moles and scaly growths ....... one turned out to be basal cell carcinoma and was removed. But OH checks my back regularly, and the docs carefully look at anything I mention, taking them for biopsy if they have the slightest suspicion.



sylvia