Thank you all for the good wishes.
Rosie, as far as I know, my family does not have a history of skin cancers. I spent a good part of my youth in the sun. I don't think sunscreen even existed back then.......that tells you how old I am.
In my late 20's and through my 30's and 40's, I spent a total of perhaps 10,000+ hours on the Gulf, often without shirt, and shoes, only wearing shorts and perhaps a baseball cap. I rarely used any sort of sunscreen. I had a large, offshore fishing boat. I was one really tan dude!
I have had nothing but a few biopsies of skin lesions and until now, they all came back as benign, actinic plaques. I cannot tell you the number of these plaques I have had frozen over the last ten years. I have never had MOHS and know nothing about that procedure. I will know more about the surgery when I talk to the Dermatologist that will do the surgery. My Dermatologist doesn't do "real" surgery for some reason. The most she'll do is the biopsy.
I look at this as another of life's adventures. I have no real fear of either the surgery or the long-term prognosis. I can only stay optimistic, knowing others will do what's necessary and that those skills were one of God's gifts.
