I went to the doctor to ask about a weird bump on my torso and she said "that seems fine, but what's up with this weird mole on your neck?"

So, uh, like and subscribe to follow me on my super cool journey.

For those following along on my mole adventure, here's the story.

In 2021, Kev took a photo of me hanging out on a patio with a stranger's dog and I was like "What's up with that weird mole on my neck? Where did that come from?" and he was like "What do you mean? That's always been there?"

I didn't know if I was Mandela Effecting or what, but I was just like "Oh okay I guess I never realized I had a big gross mole on my neck but I guess it's fine if it's been there for my entire life or at least the last 15+ years you've known me?"

Then I just ignored it until my doctor mentioned it in my annual physical earlier this week.

In the meantime, I started looking through old photos and somehow none of them show the right side of my neck and/or my hair is covering that area so I can't see anything, but I did finally find one photo from 2019 and there definitely wasn't a mole, so at least I’m not crazy. But that does mean the mole is sus AF.

I've since had a biopsy so we'll see where that lands, but I wanted to post photos to prove that I once looked like a normal person without a little goblin creature thing growing on my neck.

I realize it's been a bit since I've updated you on my dumb mole.

So, it turns out that it's melanoma, but my doctor said it was a minimal amount and essentially stage 0 cancer which I didn't even realize was a thing, so I’m not THAT concerned.

Earlier today, I had my appointment to remove the entire little goblin and its surrounding area and the doctor gave me two options which consisted of either leaving me with a scar that's about 4 inches long or a puckered circle, so of course I picked the butthole option.

Follow along to see how my little goatse heals!

It's been a little over six months since I had the melanoma removed, so I wanted to provide an update on what the scar looks like now. It's honestly not that bad considering the fact that it started out looking like a gaping butthole. I'll provide a photo of that under a content warning because it's only for people who want to torture themselves.
Gnarly photo of a wound that looks like a gaping butthole.

@Alice how can you show us that but not how it healed? (Whoops I kept scrolling and found it)

Also, tell the truth. How many things did you stick in there...

@mschulkind I absolutely didn't stick anything in there. I was so terrified with it "healing" and still looking like that so I barely went near it aside from standard wound care.
@Alice @mschulkind when I was a wound care nurse, we often packed deep wounds like that with a wick, to insure the wound healed from the inside out, without healing over and leaving a pocket.
@fondoffawns @Alice this is bringing back memories from almost 20 years ago when my roommate had an abscess on his back cleared out or whatever they do. I then had to shove gauze in there a few times until he found another victim (now wife) to do his bidding.
@mschulkind @Alice Ha! You were taking my job. The MD should have ordered a home care nurse. I enjoyed doing it.