Apparently I am a thin blooded sorehead.

[guzzijohn]

Really and literally. I had a spot on my forehead that the doc shaved off a week ago and the lab results said a very slow skin cancer but doc said more tissue needs to be removed. Had that done today and the doc ran into a vein right in the middle of the cutting. Anyway a procedure that was suppose to be 30 minutes from beginning prep to out of there turned into an almost two hour ordeal. Couldn't get the bleeding stopped so they could close the cut. They finally got things under control but I sure had many whiffs of what I would smell like being BBQed. A lot of time with very firm direct pressure on my head and it looked like a murder had taken place.
Back home now and doing pretty well considering all. Go back in the morning for followup.
I know I bruise easily and the doc said I was like someone on blood thinners which I am not.
GuzziJohn

[Dee]

A piece of red hot rebar would have seared that right over, and stopped the bleedin. That doctor needs to expand his resources.

[O-mega]

A piece of red hot rebar would have seared that right over, and stopped the bleedin. That doctor needs to expand his resources.

Too long to get it to the right temp, but Silver Nitrate would have done the trick, I carried a bottle in my pack for years. 

[Dee]

Surely a doctor could afford a small oxy-asetyline rig. Even cheap propane torch will do the  trick. He had to have known guzzi was gonna bleed. He coulda had that piece of rebar preheated.

[guzzijohn]

You guys are going to give me nightmares. 
GuzziJohn

[oldandslow]

Glad you got it taken care of. I have have had a 4 hour and a 4 1/2 hour session being whittled on and bbq-ed between cuttings plus three more shorter sessions. No fun at all. Yesterday I managed to get out of his office with only a bunch of frozen spots, all on my face and neck except two on my arm. Dues paid for a life spent outside in the southwest's intense sunlight.

[Dee]

About 3 years ago, Linda and I spent about 2 hours each ,of our 32nd anniversary, at the skin doctor gettin crustaceans cut, or frozen off.

[Dee]

Professional wrestlers have used the bloody forehead trick for decades knowing a small cut will produce seemingly enough blood to look much worse than it is.

[ironglows]

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  BBQ odor...sounds like the doc was playing "laser tag" with you.  ..Must be there wasn't any good way to know there was a vein in the way.

  One thing to consider..  If a procedure has any real chance of having "complications', best be sure your doc has backup available.

   I knew a brother-in-law to this young lady..the problem was the doc tried to do it as a simple office procedure.

   https://www.wkbw.com/longform/7-i-team-investigates-deceitful-doctor-accused-killer-new-identity

  Seems there are more tragedies of this nature;

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/18-year-old-getting-breast-enhancement-surgery-went-coma-lawsuit-n1106121

[Dee]

While he had his head numbed that doctor should have removed that liberal peanut of a brain, and put a new Walmart special in there.

[Lloyd Smale]

full blown lobotomy wouldnt help. What ive found is the liberals tend to use there minds less then the rest of us. Just look at Joe. 

[oldandslow]

As to Dee's re hot rebar comment one of the very few friends I haven't out lived has never gone to a dermetologist. When he geta a lesion he just heats up a piece of welding rod and burns that sucker off. He is a lot tougher old buzzard than me. I can barely hold sill for the nitrogen freeze which I just had again last week. I only had about a dozen spots this time.

[ironglows]

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  Historically, hot metal cauterization has been a practice for war wounds.  Form viking and medieval days up until about our earlier American wars.

  Cauterization seals the wound...and I guess they figured a burn heals faster and with less danger of infection than an open wound.

   An interesting sidelight..  Many a medieval knight, archer or foot soldier was saved by making a poultice of moldy bread, and placing it over the wound.

  It may sound crazy...but what was penicillin developed from ?

[pastorp]

Next Friday I will go to Florida Dermatology for my 5th skin cancer surgery on my head. They told me this probably started as a kid playing on our Florida beaches and hunting & fishing in the sunshine state.

Idly I had no trouble with them during the 30 years I spent in NM & Alaska. It just started after I retired and moved back to my home state, Florida. Of course as a kid we didn’t know about sun screen. I’d play all day in the sun and if I got a bad sunburn my mother’s treatment was washing me down with vinegar. It did help relieve the painful burn at the time.

[ironglows]

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   As a lifeguard at the officers pool at Ft Hood in 1956, vinegar was our best remedy to ease the pain of sunburn.

   I too have had some basal cells removed...and since NY is not viewed as a "sunshine state"..and my days building silos etc, I wore a T-shirt and brimmed hat, I tend to lay the basal cell cancers to that summer.

     We all wore white zinc oxide ointment on our noses..after them being  well burned. 

  No really good suntan lotion then.. we used baby oil with a bit of iodine.. shake well before using.

   Don't know if it was any good, but we used it..rarely around the pool though, since lotions an doils were banned there.

[oldandslow]

Next Friday I will go to Florida Dermatology for my 5th skin cancer surgery on my head. They told me this probably started as a kid playing on our Florida beaches and hunting & fishing in the sunshine state.

You will catch up with me next week. Four on my face and neck, one basal cell and three sqummies as my doctor calls them plus a big sqummie on the point of my left shoulder. I went last week because of a spot right at the end of the sqummie removed off my nose last year. I lucked out and he froze it but he told me to keep a close watch on it. I tell my new doctor these are all his fault as I never had one until my old doctor retired.