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@dawg, I'm tagging @samiam1949 on this discussion. They live with long COVID and are awaiting surgery (lung lobectomy for lung cancer) and are concerned about recovery.

Dawg, how are you doing now a few days later from your skin cancer surgery? What do you wish you had known before surgery?

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As skin cancer (Basel cell) is a slow growing cancer, I wish I’d postponed. I was feeling pretty good prior to the surgery. I’d Uber to get a massage each week. I’d help around the house as much as I could. Get my own breakfast and lunch and clean up kitchen after my wife cooked dinner. When I got the surgery I had two places on my face which had to be numbed extensively and required internal and external stitches. A lot of stress to my body initially and normal stress and pain when the numbing wore off. I still felt good overall the day after surgery and went back to normal routine-possibly normal +. It was the following day I crashed and became bed bound. My wife has had to help me wash my hair and change my bandages. Brings me all my meals, etc. Today is my 6th day of crash and while the last couple of days has been better still staying off stairs and being served my meals. I feel like I’m coming out of the crash, but don’t know how long it will take to get back to the me of only a week or so ago. I get stitches out on Monday. Shouldn’t be near as traumatic as the surgery but I intend to come home and get forced rest. Again, I’d have postponed altogether, but I had that luxury based on what it was. Other than that, I just wish I would have considered the likely stress to my body and spent the next couple of days on the sofa vs what was my normal routine. Pretty sure this was sort of self inflicted. Hope that helps.