Melanoma Surgery - Day 128

Another month has passed and my scar is still healing at a snail’s pace (at least to me). I have to admit though, that this past week has been the first time since having my melanoma surgery where my face feels almost normal. The tightness is almost gone and it’s gotten to the point where I forget I have a scar on my face.

I tried putting Retin-A on my scar at the recommendation of my wife and after a couple of days I discontinued using it because it burned too much. I’ll have to wait a while before I attempt that again as the scar tissue is probably too “fresh” to apply something like Retin-A to it.

I started back up with the Mederma and haven’t been doing anything else to the scar. I was thinking what a great product Mederma is from a business standpoint. Take my situation for example…I have a scar on my face and I want it to heal as fast as possible and I want the scar to be as close to invisible as possible. I’m told that Mederma can heal and help minimize the scar, but I have nothing to compare it to. Do I want to take the chance of not using the Mederma or use it to hopefully minimize the scar as much and as soon as possible?

My surgeon says it’s a waste of money, but I’m not willing to find out. If the Mederma helps just a little bit then it’s worth it to me.

Anyway here is my latest pic…