Sunday, September 14, 2008

Molie molie molie molie..

What movie is that from, anyway?

SO.. last Tuesday I had a mole removed from my back. It had been bothering me for about 6 months now. It was occasionally itchy and kind of just gave me this dull "feeling" that I can't really describe. Since my new job health insurance kicked in on September 1st, I immediately made an appointment with my old dermatologist. I have so many moles on my body that I really look like a chocolate chip cookie. I visit the dermatologist regularly.

So I told him this mole had been bothering me. I tried to express to him without scaring myself with my words that it had been worrying me. He took a look at it and said it looked irritated, probably from my bra strap. To myself I thought.. ya except my bra doesn't go that far down my back. He sliced it off.

Today the doctor himself called me. He said that he looked at my stupid mole under the microscope and noticed several abnormal looking cells. He shipped it off to the lab where they double confirmed it for him. Yes there were abnormal cells in the stupid mole....... but they were not cancerous.

Hallelujah.

I recommend everyone try to avoid direct sun as much as possible. You may have noticed from my previous posts that I keep Maddie dressed in a sun-suit when she goes swimming. I even got a nice hot pink shirt for myself!

Please check out the website where I purchased them. The woman started the company in honor of her husband, whom she lost to skin cancer at a very young age.

*** http://www.uvskinz.com/ ***

8 comments:

Paula said...

So glad it turned out to be nothing!

Jane said...

Thank God it's ok! Thanks for the link

Queen B said...

so glad it's gone and that it turned out ok.

thanks for the excellent reminder, Bianka.

KFuj said...

Glad you when to get it checked out and it was nothing, yippie :-)

Thanks for the link!! All of my swim lesson kids have the skins and I wish they made them in my size, now they do!

Jenn Ann said...

Hmmm I'm supposed to be on mole watch...now I've got to find that post and see how long it's been and compare. Sigh. Glad your mole just just a little abnormal and nothing serious.

Jinjer said...

Glad it turned out to be non-cancerous!

Kim Thomas said...

Nothing good about abnormal cells!!!!! Glad they werent cancerous.

Anonymous said...

Good for you to take the initiatve and get yourself checked! It is really good to hear that it was only abnormal cells.
Thanks for getting the word out about UV Skinz and glad to know that you are choosing to Live In Our Skinz!
Blessings!