I know why the cored apple seeps...
Nov. 15th, 2005 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kickahaWell *that* was interesting....
Went to the dermatologist today because a mole check turned up an 'unusual' one. GP wasn't sure what to make of it, but since I'm a redhead, I grew up in a desert, and I've had more than my fair share of sunburns (including a 3rd degree on my feet - yes, it's possible), he thought it best to have it checked.
Dermatologist looks at it through the technoloupe (sounds like a Glasswalker Garou, now that I think about it), and says "Huh." Never a good sign. I had, in one big assed freckle, *three*, count them *three* indicators... all for different types of skin tumors. Sooooo, a 'biopsy' was decreed.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear 'biopsy', I get the image of a thin needle taking a small sample.
I could not have been more wrong.
They removed the whole damned thing. About 1/3" across, and 1/4" deep, they *cored* my leg, and then stitched it up.
Oh, and just for the record... you know on horror movies when they show that foam latex skin stretching all gooey-like, and it looks so fake? Yeah, it's not. It looks just like that. After the coring came the pulling, and then the snipping. It looked fricking *cool*, man. (Even if I did get the cold-scalp-prickle of mild shock...) And oh, when she pulled on it, it was like tapping a keg of O positive. *blorp* My Fangoria-addled inner child was giggling.
Went to the dermatologist today because a mole check turned up an 'unusual' one. GP wasn't sure what to make of it, but since I'm a redhead, I grew up in a desert, and I've had more than my fair share of sunburns (including a 3rd degree on my feet - yes, it's possible), he thought it best to have it checked.
Dermatologist looks at it through the technoloupe (sounds like a Glasswalker Garou, now that I think about it), and says "Huh." Never a good sign. I had, in one big assed freckle, *three*, count them *three* indicators... all for different types of skin tumors. Sooooo, a 'biopsy' was decreed.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear 'biopsy', I get the image of a thin needle taking a small sample.
I could not have been more wrong.
They removed the whole damned thing. About 1/3" across, and 1/4" deep, they *cored* my leg, and then stitched it up.
Oh, and just for the record... you know on horror movies when they show that foam latex skin stretching all gooey-like, and it looks so fake? Yeah, it's not. It looks just like that. After the coring came the pulling, and then the snipping. It looked fricking *cool*, man. (Even if I did get the cold-scalp-prickle of mild shock...) And oh, when she pulled on it, it was like tapping a keg of O positive. *blorp* My Fangoria-addled inner child was giggling.
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Re: Yup.
Date: 2005-11-15 09:15 pm (UTC)Can't imagine how they'd treat that one, either. Skin-graft, eventually, sure, but... damn, the burn ward would've been one freaking LOUD place for the long time she'd be in there... oof.
That, and I think you win the gross-out contest for now. I don't have anything to top that right now. ;-)
Re: Yup.
Date: 2005-11-15 09:17 pm (UTC)Re: Yup.
Date: 2005-11-15 10:17 pm (UTC)That being said, hope the biopsy comes back clean!
Re: Yup.
Date: 2005-11-15 10:20 pm (UTC);)
Re: Yup.
Date: 2005-11-15 10:22 pm (UTC)