Parents caring for the parent support thread (Part 1)

compmom
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 01:23:30 +0000

My mother has had three large squamous cell skin cancer lesions in two months. The latest one, on her arm, was huge. COVID means noone is seeing these until they have grown enormous. Noone is showering her or dressing her or looking her over.

Then again they seem to be growing so fast that it is hard to catch them.

The last one, on the arm, was taken out and cauterized, but within two weeks has already grown back higher than skin level. She is going to have to have Moh’s surgery to get it all out or it will spread to lymph nodes and potentially beyond.

Clearly there is something going on with her immune system. Squamous cell skin cancers going off like fireworks.

I will be taking her to the doctor. Otherwise I just see her at the window 1-2 times/week. It continues to be weird having to keep distant.

I will say that the assisted living facility has stepped up and they are caring for her wounds. If they had done this much pre-COVID I could have flown to Aruba for a month!!