It sucks getting old. I had to have Mohs surgery to remove some skin cancer above my lip this morning. I thought it was going to be some minor slicing. The dude took a huge chunk out of my face. Now it hurts like hell and my lip is swollen to enormous proportions. The bandage can come off tomorrow. I’m sure it will look splendid. Then I get to do an 8 hour round trip to Penn State to move my son back to school. Avalon laughed when I told her to take the picture. Can’t a guy get some compassion? My mustache is going to be a mess.
I’d just add a plastic nose ring to distract attention – people will just wonder what else you’ve done to mess up a perfectly good face.
But when you actually pick up your kid, wrap lots of tape all the way around your head. It’s important to embarrass them in public.
@ about 48 seconds Rocky asks Mick how he looks: “aahhh, it’s an improvement”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YvHMbSRQl8
My sympathies. I hope they got every cancerous cell and your life (and looks, relatively) return to normal soon.
Well that sucks. Hope things improve from here. On a positive note if you leave the beard after you remove the bandage you can set a new facial hair trend for middle age males. We could call it the “Quinn Cut”. You’d be even more famous (infamous?) than you are now.
Damn. Good luck sleeping like that tonight. Hope they have you some good pills to help.
You just need to focus on your inner beauty.
That sucks and I hope for a speedy full recovery for you.
There is no reason for you to do an 8 hour round trip to move your son into Penn State. He’s smart enough to go there then he’s smart enough to get there.
Rest and get well.
He’s not smart enough to drive two cars, which is what it takes to get his stuff back up there.
U-haul could be your answer but that won’t make as much of a memory as the quality time you’ll get to spend with him on the trip! Who knows, Avalon might just encounter another toilet geyser!
Is he smart enough to make two trips? 🙂
Nice Seinfeld reference.
Hang in there Jim,
A few years back I finally got my doctor to remove a mole that was on my shoulder. It was melanoma.
Now I go every year or so for a complete body check. Damn lite Irish Skin!!
Yes, it sucks getting older.
Dang Jimmy, looks like you’re at a hookers and blow party in the eighties!
Seriously, get well soon brother!
You know, THC is the cure for cancer. That’s why the dea classifies it a dangerous drug like heroine and coke. We can’t have the cure for cancer interfering with all the breast awareness month, chemo, doctors, and big pharma, it’s just good business Jimmy.
Mulline or molline is also a miracle drug for the skin. The wife used it on some dark chest spots and they fucking vanished. Mulline is usually found growing by the side of the road in shitty soil.
Go get some weed, find some molline plants and make a tincture, and laugh at the medical establishment all the way. That’s how it used to be done.
As a side note, does anyone know why the docktur calls his business a ‘practice?’ I thought they went to school for decades to learn their craft so WTF is it they be a practicing on?
It’s called a “practice” because medicine is an art, not a science. What works on one person might not work on the next.
Tampa, do you mean mullein? I knew it was good for breathing problems, but I didn’t know about the skin. There’s usually one or two growing around here somewhere.
http://naturalhealthtechniques.com/herb-mullien/
Ah yes Annie, that’s it, thank you. Speeling is not my four tay 😉
You have my sympathies admin but it could be worse. I had a friend who had some minor form of skin cancer next to his schnoz. A surgeon used a microscope to trace out and remove every last trace of it. Unfortunately it took eight hours and carved a path across his cheek, around his eye, into and out of his forehead then around the side of his head ending behind his ear.
Yikes Admin……..that looks painful. Take care that does not get infected.
No worse than herpes or a harelip.
just remember, chick did scars
That’s really gonna cut into your cunnilingus habit.
However, it can be turned around…. And then when I had the 6 Islamic terrorists cornered….
Stay out of the Sun from now on Jimmy Boy.That’s 50 bucks please.
bb, you should consider donating your counseling fees to TBP.
Admin that’s what you get from all that muff divin’. Ask Michael Douglas lol!
Heal up soon.
If it makes you feel any better, the J-Dawg has a nasty scar on his head from the tick that bit him, burrowed in and almost killed him.
There’s a song in there somewhere… the hair of the dog the tick bit.
My old wig didn’t help a lot. You can borrow it if you want.
I have GOT to get a new photo account… Damn Photobucket… I don’t like the storage place I was trying out. Anyone have a good recommendation?
Martha, how the fuck do your dog’s afflictions make up for Admin’s pain? Seriously, I always doubted BW’s assessment of your mental health.
Since you dogged me on the lurker’s thread, I have no respect for you anymore. I regret that I ever considered you an internet acquaintance. Adios, motherfucker. Rabbit killer.
I DOGGED you? Really? Whatever.
And Admin has a sense of humor or he would NOT have posted that photo. I thought my poor J-Dawg with his head divot is funny.
You do what you gotta do, EC.
As for me and my house?
That’s it, you fold like the Pillsbury Dough-boy?
No wonder JFish calls you mom, he’s just as soft and squishy.
https://youtu.be/ymmRnKaTEr8
Have (unfortunately) had many Mohs surgeries. Partly as a result of teenage visits to a dermatologist who treated my acne partly with sunlamp sessions. And encouraged me to get one for home use (in addition to hours in the pool every summer day).
When I relate this to my current dermatologists they just shrug and say “We know better now”.
I guess I should be grateful I don’t still need regular bleedings or application of leeches.
Be well.
This event has made me realize our lives would suck even worse without Admin. Where else will a site let you say nigger and blow me to your hearts content. Most of us are so old we would be dead now if we had to hold in all this hostility.
You have made a huge difference in many, many lives. Best of health going forward and wear a hat FFS.
Very true, Bea. Our Admin needs to be careful… TPTB will never allow another TBP.
Yeh well Jim, hope you come out looking like Burt Reynolds…but if not well hell you still got a troupe of shit slinging simians looking after your ass end.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Beauty eventually fades away, but ugly goes on and on.
Get better soon Admin!
When the bandage comes off and as the damage to your lip takes its good old time healing, here’s a suggestion for you to say to folks, “Before you ask, you should see what the other guy looks like.” Heh.
Now then, as TBP’s Official Grooming Advisor (I have so many titles here, I’ve lost track), may I say, “WTF gives with the scraggly beard. You look like the Irish version of Yasser Arafat. Ditch it and shave. And your fucking sideburns. W-A-A-A-Y too long. Trim back to mid-ear. Because of the bandage, I can’t really comment on your mustache, but that probably looks like shit, too.”
Before you jump all over me, you should know that I coordinated these comments with someone near and dear to your heart. SHE concurs.
” You look like the Irish version of Yasser Arafat.”
That’s some cold shit but funny as hell!
Admin – I really do not see the problem. Best I can tell, anything that hides any portion of your face is an improvement. I think you should make the bandage a permanent feature.
Hope it heals well. Skin cancer sucks.
BM
When you’re on your son’s campus, if anyone starts to throw rotten vegetables at you, just run to the nearest campanile, climb up the clock tower and yell: “I am not an animal!!!! I am human!! I just had minor outpatient surgery on my lip yesterday and I’m helping my son move to college today!!!”
By then, the campus security should be there and you’ll be fine?
Unless Avalon saves you first. 🙂
But seriously, be well man. Trust the doctors and easy does it…
Hope you heal well.
Be well Jim.
Most of us here are not movie star handsome, just me and bb. All of us are not so pretty as we age. That’s life.
Seriously Jim, I will pray for your complete and speedy recovery. All of us wish you the best.
Overthecliff
3 unrelated comments:
a. There is a skin cancer treatment center in every corner in Phoenix. Not sure why.
b. The beautiful blonde lost most of her upper lip to surgery, she lost her collagen cells due to radiation treatment. She also lost the function of her thyroid. She doesn’t quite look like a sharpei but she can be a bitch. When I considered all the scars she has on her head, arms and shoulders, I decided she’s not a total bitch, just 80%.
c. I believe it was a black doctor who devised a plan to photograph the entire body of skin cancer patients, it provides a good record for comparison. I used her iPhone to take a pic of the beautiful blonde’s back, it is very convenient in that she can enlarge the pic right then and look at any suspicious red dots on her light skin.
d. she asked if you had a melanoma or squamous or [something else] removed?
Is that an image of the author of this site, Mr Quinn?
That is not even close to what I had conjured up all of these years.
Not that the photo is hideous or anything like that it’s just reading his takes on Philly at DirectorBlue for years had left me a different…take(?) on his physical appearance.
Looks can be deceiving. Admin only looks amiable and non-threatening. A lot of folks who underestimated him are in therapy right now. However, be of good cheer, we now have a counselor on-site. He will gladly provide you with a safe space for $50.
Star practicing lines such as: “With the right woman there’s no stopping me. I could go right to the top.” Or: “Say hello to my leetle friend.”
Seriously, hope you mend well and quickly. I can attest to the fact that a scar on the face ain’t so bad at all, and I got mine back in 1961.
Hope you feel better today. If not, you probably need more pain pills.