u/ariesart14

Hey all! I’m (26f) trying to help my mom (50f) get answers and reassurance after having two BCC surgeries on her right eye.

My mom’s had her fair share of BCC battles over the years and this most recent has had lingering problems for her. About a year ago she got her first surgery for her BCC that appeared on the lower outer part of her eyelid on her right eye. Surgery went fine and she was healing up until doc called back and said they didn’t get the full margins. So she had to go in for another surgery around 2 weeks later which took a fair more amount of her eyelid. I think her eye looks beautiful and healed really nice but she can see it’s a bit tighter and smaller than it used to be.

Aside from the aesthetics of it all, she has been fighting a lingering burning and tight-feeling sensation in her eye ever since her surgery last year and it’s breaking my heart to see her struggle so much with no answers or support. She says that her eye feels tight mainly all day and then it will also start burning/drying out and it affects her entire eyeball not just the eyelid. Her doctors have not given her much support aside from “it taking time” or eyedrops to feel better but I think there’s something more to this. She said that wearing a hat/sunglasses does help but she doesn’t want to have to wear those all day everyday.

Her doctor said that he’s only ever done this surgery with people 70+ so their eyes are already drier from being older so he has nothing else to compare her frustrations with since she only just turned 50 last year… which I think is ridiculous but that’s small town American healthcare for you.

I’m just wondering if anyone else out there has had a wacky time healing from a BCC eyelid surgery that could provide her some reassurance or moral support or even a new direction in how to make this problem easier to live with.

Hopefully I covered most of the issues here, I’m gonna ask her more questions tomorrow so see if I can help explain more of the problems better!

Any and all help or stories would be so appreciated!
Sending everyone love ❤️

Hello my fellow mono havers!

I’m (26f) about to head on a family trip in two weeks but just found out I’ve had mono for the past month (crazy!!!!!) I was hoping to get some advice about traveling since I don’t know many people who’ve had mono before.

I have only been super fatigued, super swollen lymph nodes, and had a cough/stuffy nose (which is why I didn’t even think I had mono until I went to the doctor yesterday and got a positive test…) it all started around 4-5 weeks ago when I was sick for a week then got better and then it all came back a week later WORSE and now I’ve slowly been getting better but am still super exhausted. I got soooo lucky and have had very mild symptoms unlike my poor girlfriend (27f) who has the evil sore throat :(

I’m curious, is flying a month after symptoms started okay? I’m still an avid masker when traveling so I will be masked up/not spreading to others. I’m just so worried about the spleen of it all lol. I haven’t had any pain in my spleen, just my swollen lymph nodes. I doubt flying would do anything bad but I just wanted to see if anyone else here had traveled after their symptoms started to disappear/had an okay time with it :)

We are going to a national park which I know I’ll probably have to sit out on some hikes due to the fatigue and not wanting to stress my body out but if anyone has any advice on hiking post mono please feel free to share any experiences as well! Trying my best to take this seriously so I don’t get worse!