{"id":3806,"date":"2011-11-23T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/put-on-your-sunscreen-kids\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:05:56","slug":"put-on-your-sunscreen-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/put-on-your-sunscreen-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Put On Your Sunscreen, Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='right'><script src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gash.php\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I had an appointment with my medical caregiver to remove a dime-sized growth on my right shoulder. I went home with a little round bandage on the excised area.<\/p>\n<p>The lab at the clinic performed a biopsy on the removed tissue and it turned out to be a basal cell carcinoma &#8211; skin cancer in other words. I got a call last week that they wanted to schedule a second procedure that would remove additional tissue that would &#8220;get it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, I went in to have the second procedure performed. After it was all finished, I had a two-inch gash on the shoulder held together with a bunch of sutures. <\/p>\n<p>This is actually the second time I have gone through this; the first basal cell removal and follow-up occurred before I retired in 2009 and left a nasty, jagged scar in the middle of my back. <\/p>\n<p>This time, this surgeon did a much better job of stitching me up; if you&#8217;re inclined to view my new nice, straight incision, you can click in the rectangle above and to the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I had an appointment with my medical caregiver to remove a dime-sized growth on my right shoulder. I went home with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}