Hello to all of you. I felt funny posting while waiting for biopsy results…like why go there when I don’t know, right?
On 6/10, I went to the derm for a rash on my arm (turns out it was because of my watch). While I was there, he talked me into an all-over body check because I’m 47 with fair skin, green eyes, some moles he could see… I clearly spend time in the sun from going to my daughter’s lacrosse games although I’m good with sunblock.
On my back, underneath where my bra straps or bathing suit straps would cover it up, he said “oh, I don’t like the looks of that.” He whispered to his assistant that we needed to rule out melanoma.
Because it was a shave biopsy and I didn’t see it, I convinced myself “hey, it’s probably not it. If it is, it’s early.”
I share custody of my daughter with her father so I didn’t have anyone around to clean the site last week. I did it awkwardly, the best I could. But I still had no visual. I couldn’t really get one in the mirror.
Last night my daughter did it for me and took a picture.
Now I’m scared.
It was the size of at least 4 pencil erasers. And there is still mole there. Multicolored.. I can see myself that the edges were wild. And if I’m honest, my back has been itchy for months, maybe longer. I wrote that off to dry skin caused by the heat in the winter.
And there is still mole there. The doctor told me that I should have results by 6/24.
He also said, “you seem like a very nice woman.”
I thought that was an odd thing for a doctor to say. He was a nice man. But now looking back I’m wondering if he knew – this was after he took the biopsy. I felt like he was feeling bad for what he knew he was going to have to tell me.
He also took a spot from behind my ear.
Is this normal to have something remaining post-biopsy? Am I freaking for no reason?
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