Full Body Checks

[Beekissed]

Nope! Too hot to get involved in the story and the glare on the page makes reading hard. 'Sides, I usually had to find a hidey-hole for reading or some adult would come along with work to be done.

THAT brings back memories! I'm a big reader as well and I used to go to the outhouse~yes, even in the summer when it's the most aromatic~to read and hide out from all the work, work, work. Dad didn't believe in kids relaxing unless it was Sunday.

Was doing a BP clinic at the local senior citizen's place as a service to the community by our hospice and an older lady came through in a tank top. You could tell she tanned regularly in her life and was still doing so, though she was in her 70s. I noticed a suspicious looking and very large, flat mole on her back and asked her if she had it checked out before. She said she hadn't and I advised her to do so.

Lo and behold, contrary to what folks usually do when given good medical advice by a nurse, she did just that and it was cancer. She had it removed and they got it all. I'm hoping she isn't continuing to tan so very much at her age.

 

[baymule]

I had a couple of skin cancers and took them off with a bloodroot salve. It kills the roots, draws them up and a chunk of whitish dead cancer cells falls out.

We went to an old man, lived in the woods, and he made the salve. Treated hundreds of people around there. Didn't charge, that would get him in trouble, but people would give him a donation. My husband had a cancer on his cheek, under his eye and took the bloodroot treatment. His eye swelled shut and he could feel it drawing all over the side of his face.

After 24 hours, the bloodroot salve bandaid came off and we used triple antibiotic ointment and a clean bandaid, changed twice a day. In about a week a "shooter" marble sized chunk of grossness fell out of his face. It had roots sticking out of it like a bunch of hairs. Also left a crater in husband's face, freaked him out. Kept it filled with triple antibiotic ointment, covered with a bandaid and it healed up nicely.

A friend of mine has a holistic healer uncle, and I got a small jar of ointment to keep around.

 

[Nyboy]

wow Bay do you still keep in touch with him ?

 

[majorcatfish]

couple years ago went in they found a couple spots on my back and one on my nose,so they froze them, the ones on my back was ok the one they froze on my nose
omfg that was so painful after he was done ,it brought a tear to my eye. they took my co-pay and the bad thing was they did not offer my a lollipop to soothe the pain for the frozen nose or what the insurance did not cover....

 

[baymule]

wow Bay do you still keep in touch with him ?

Bloodroot salve has been known for centuries. I even ordered a book on how to make it.

 

[Smart Red]

I have the bloodroot, how does one make the salve?

I have an herb book. I should look it up.

 

[thistlebloom]

I have a 6" scar on my calf where I had a melanoma removed. They injected a radioactive isotope into it and removed some lymph nodes from my groin, they biopsied the sentinel cells and found the cancer had apparently not spread. That was in 2004.

Edited to correct my ' to ". Not confusion. Just not 20/20 vision.

 

[Smart Red]

Wow! A six foot scar! (guessing you meant six inch; I get those marks mixed up myself). It's good to hear these stories of successful melanoma removals. I know my hairdresser (yes, I have one from time to time) and my dentist check for changes that might be cancerous, but my doctor has yet to ask me about any skin abnormalities I might have.

 

[Beekissed]

Dad was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma on his forehead some years ago and had the horrible ointment they give for that but never finished using it as it was just so corrosive. Since then he's had places removed, one huge one a couple of months back that was big as a grape sticking off the side of his forehead...that had grown back after a previous removal and had grown back even bigger! Well, long about then we started using castor oil on those places and more of the same up in his scalp and they are virtually gone now. No regrowth of the big one either...you can't even tell where it was now.

I'd love to know more about this bloodroot salve and will be doing some searching on it. I'm all for natural remedies!

 

[Nyboy]

@Smart Red I know better then to ask a lady her age, but I will assume your over 50. Next time your at your Dr ( almost typed vet) ask him about a full body check.