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dragonoflife
14 October 2005 @ 10:17 pm
I come to you all less of a man than I was.

Specifically, less one mole and a chunk of skin surrounding it. I visited the dermatologist on Wednesday, an appointment I'd been waiting six months for. He didn't mess around -- five minutes after he started looking at me, I was on my back getting drugged up. Whack, off came a mole in the middle of my torso -- actually, snip. Biopsy.

When I say hole, I mean hole. I mean *crater* which is obviously the result of losing my ENTIRE LAYER OF SKIN there. It's deep, it's ugly, and it clearly won't be healing any time soon. (Much as I might want it to.)

Quite a trip. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that the biopsy's normal, if you would?
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[identity profile] kaote.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 05:08 am (UTC)
You'll probably be fine... I have to go to a derm every 6 months to have my moles checked because my mom had skin cancer, and I have a shitload of moles on my back so I can't check 'em myself. The guy I see in NC is scalpel-happy, he takes moles off left and right. He took 6 off of my brother when he saw him the first time... I only had 2 taken, one from the center of my back and one from my butt. :P Better to be safe than sorry with those things!

Keeping some Neosporin and a bandaid on the site should do the trick. They make pain-killing Neosporin which is what I use for stuff like that that'll take a week or two to heal.
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[identity profile] dragonoflife.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 06:16 pm (UTC)
Yeah, ditto me from now on, especially to the back part. We're waiting for the biopsy results to see what else is gonna need to come off.

Luckily, working in a hospital means I can usually snag some supplies if I need to, like band-aids, and if I have any infection problems I can get 'em caught and treated quite promptly.
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