John Lennon’s oldest son opened up a few terrifying well being scare.
Julian Lennon, 61, whom the late Beatles icon welcomed together with his first spouse, Cynthia Lennon, revealed that he had been handled for pores and skin most cancers a second time.
Posting to his social media on Wednesday, Dec. 18, Lennon additionally introduced that he underwent an emergency operation on two areas on his pores and skin, shoulder and forearm, and one turned out to be melanoma.
Lennon shared that he acquired an pressing name from his physician earlier than flying to Los Angeles to look on “Good Morning America” and do press for his new ebook, “Life’s Fragile Moments.”
“My lovely dermatologist [was] the one who caught and operated on my mole skin cancer a few years ago, and literally saved my life,” he wrote because the caption of the publish, which included a number of black-and-white photographs earlier than and after the operation.
“Anyway, after having just finished GMA, I received a message from Dr Tess, with some urgency to return to Los Angeles, as I had two locations on my skin, shoulder and forearm, one of which was melanoma, that should be operated on asap!!” Lennon defined.
“So instead of going home to put my Christmas tree up and happily finish the year off, relaxing at home, I flew directly back to Los Angeles, after all my work in New York was done, and went directly from LAX airport, to surgery.”
Lennon shared that the operation was profitable; nonetheless, he’s uncertain if the biopsy outcomes will arrive earlier than or after Christmas.
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He thanked his docs “for being able to coordinate this surgery at such short notice, but for once again, hopefully saving my life.”
“One can never be too confident in circumstances like this, but we all believe that Dr Tim has saved the day… So fingers crossed for now.”
Lennon inspired his followers to get checked out.
“It only takes a short while to do so, and you may just be saving your own life, at the end of the day,” he mentioned, “so please, for the sake of yourself, your family and friends just go to your [doctor] and do what must be done,” he wrote.
“I love life and I want to live for a very long time and this is one way, and a choice, that could determine your future.”
In 2020, Lennon revealed he had a mole on his head eliminated after a biopsy confirmed it was cancerous.
Earlier this week, photographs circulated of Lennon and his brother, Sean Ono, 49, hanging out on the Dakota, the New York Metropolis condo constructing the place their well-known father was fatally shot in entrance of in December 1980.
Lennon has by no means been married and has no kids.
