Images of my leg

I thought it'd be handy to record images of the melanoma and the resulting scar. I didn't get a photo of it right after surgery but imagine a bloodied bandage and you're there.

The melanoma:

A few days after I took the bandage off:

Today, ten days after surgery:

The stitches come out on Monday morning. I'd never had stitches before so for anyone who's wondering, this is how it felt:

The surgery mostly didn't hurt. The area around the mole was injected several times with local anaesthetic but the needles only hurt a little bit. Once the area had gone numb, the mole was removed very quickly with a 2mm margin of skin around it. This is to try and get all of the cancer cells out. The incision is kind of an eye shape - apparently it makes less of a scar that way. I had 8 stitches in, and it was all over before I knew it. It was so numb and I am so unbothered by blood that I actually watched them for a bit. It's weird to see a big hole in your leg and not feel it! The worst part was definitely 12 hours later when the anaesthetic had worn off. It bloody killed, to be honest. The next day it just throbbed and then it got better to the point now where I can only feel it if I cross my legs funny (the stitches are on the back of my leg just below the crease of my knee). Oh, the last thing I should say is that after a week the stitches got really itchy. I just scratched around them and used an ice pack when it got unbearable. It'll be interesting to see how small the scar is. In the last photo, you can see the yellow scab forming in the cut, which is good and means it'll all hold together. The human body is amazing! Well, apart from growing a melanoma. That was shitty of it.