Helen Ikua I am about as melanin deprived as a human can be, but raised in sunny rural California, so my 70 year old skin suffers from lots of accumulated damage. One day several years ago a doctor told me “You should get that thing removed”.
“That thing” was a round dark bump, maybe 6mm in diameter, that had been slowly growing, right in the center of my forehead. I thought it was ugly, so of course I agreed, and made an appointment with the dermatology department.
I had gone through the liquid nitrogen thing several times previously — no big deal — so I wasn’t expecting an actual surgical procedure where the doctor cuts until he “gets all of it”, and the stitches pull the remaining skin together so tight that my forehead feels like a drum, and I walk out with an enormous gauze dressing on my head, not quite believing what just happened…
Kent Crispin Wow! Just wow. Maybe I should loan you a bit of my colour. And I keep telling ya Kent, 70 is not old, it just means that you done a lotta living. 😀
That band-aid on your forehead, part of the vaction’s ensemble?
Helen Ikua I am about as melanin deprived as a human can be, but raised in sunny rural California, so my 70 year old skin suffers from lots of accumulated damage. One day several years ago a doctor told me “You should get that thing removed”.
“That thing” was a round dark bump, maybe 6mm in diameter, that had been slowly growing, right in the center of my forehead. I thought it was ugly, so of course I agreed, and made an appointment with the dermatology department.
I had gone through the liquid nitrogen thing several times previously — no big deal — so I wasn’t expecting an actual surgical procedure where the doctor cuts until he “gets all of it”, and the stitches pull the remaining skin together so tight that my forehead feels like a drum, and I walk out with an enormous gauze dressing on my head, not quite believing what just happened…
Kent Crispin Wow! Just wow. Maybe I should loan you a bit of my colour. And I keep telling ya Kent, 70 is not old, it just means that you done a lotta living. 😀