Small basal cell carcinoma on nose

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Anyone experienced this with an elderly relative - father in law 86 had this done on Monday and has 18 stitches all down one side of nose and looks like he’s done 10 rounds with mike Tyson at his peak and the black eyes and bruising are both sides of his face and nose - poor guy is mortified, he thought it would just be very local bruising only and busy saying he would rather they had left it - it was a really small spot too and not growing but kept scabbing over and bleeding .

Yes 79 yo df had one taken out recently, in a very awkward spot between nose and eye

he looked dreadful for a few days

now, 7 or so weeks on, you can barely notice

he didn’t have as many stickers as your poor FIL but it’s all recovered far more quickly than he expected

He was right to have it done. The injury will fade away and disappear quite quickly. My dad had the same and ignored it, and just hoped it would go. It didn't. It bled more and more as time went on.
Eventually he had to have quite a drastic operation to remove it. The surgeon cut a strip of skin and flesh down from above his forehead and turned it round to cover the wound on his nose. We called it the elephants trunk. The plan had been to put the strip back where it had been taken from, but the strip died and couldn't be put back.
It was quite traumatic for my dad and if he'd had it dealt with at an early stage, this could have been avoided.

I am curious. How do you know that it was Basal cell prior to it going to the lab. for testing?
I have had a few lesions, and none was predetermined prior to excision .Thank you

Mother had something similar. More than 30 stitches I recall. She was v bruoswd and swollen but wothin abput 3/4 weeks ot was very unnoticable. She was v upset.

Nope in all fairness he doesn’t - that’s what the surgeon told him it was presenting as and how they were treating it - but it did go off for biopsy - so should know more next week