X-Men, Here I Come!

I had an appointment yesterday with an oral surgeon. For the five or six years, I have had a spot on my lower lip. I had it checked out and the doc said that it was probably a basal cell carcinoma and nothing to really worry about. He said that it will continue to periodically pop-up in the same place, scab over and go away. So for the past 5+ years, I have had a sore pop-up in the same place, scab over and go away. Almost a month ago, I had another sore pop-up in the same place. At this same time, I also had a fever blister that was taking its sweet time in healing ( pernicious anemia is a bitch!). This baby of a fever blister hung around for at least three weeks. My little basal cell was taking forever to scab over (it is still hanging around) and I had gotten sunburned. So to top off the fever blister and the basal cell, I had a few blisters on my face from being burned (those too eventually scabbed over) and I felt like the Leper of Madison County.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) my parental units saw all of these marks and hounded me into going back to see my oral surgeon; hence yesterday’s appointment. It appears that the basal cell may have mutated. Now I am not a new candidate for the next X-Men team, instead I am a new candidate for what is called squamous cell carcinoma. This is the bad stuff. I have read about both cancer types on Wiki and Dr. Google and quite frankly I am scared. The doc said that if the biopsy comes back benign (he thinks it will) then I’ll just have to keep an eye on the little, itty, bitty sore. If it comes back malignant, I get to lose part of my lip. Yeah me!
On the smoking front, I am now combining the acupuncture with the patch, crocheting and an herbal supplement. I am on the road to being smoke free!