Leading up to my Dermatology appointment I doing well. With the help of drugs, my husband and a very dear friend I made it to the waiting room in one piece.
I don't know what I was expecting, but i wasn't expecting for things to be so...personal. The nurse and the dermatologist were excellent. If anyone finds themselves needing to see a dermatologist for any reason, Allina Bandana Square Clinic treated me very well.
I'm not a brave person. I don't particularly enjoy being nude unless I'm really comfortable with the person. I'm a person who likes being in control, and when I'm in an open gown with my boob out, I don't feel in control. She started by doing a general mole check, which involved getting very up close and personable with every inch of my body. "The mole", the reason I was there in the first place came last.
"Now, what in particular brought you in here"
"I have a concerning mole on my left breast"
The microscope came back out and she was right up there. My boob rarely gets paid this much attention. My heart was pounding so fast I'm sure she could hear it. Everything has come down to this. All of my obsessive thoughts and compulsions have centered around this mole.
"It looks mostly benign, but I'm seeing some other stuff here that I'm just not sure of. May I remove the mole?"
Several things raced through my head at that moment. I was mainly struck with the polite way she asked. I've come to both love and hate this mole, but I wanted it gone. I just wasn't expecting it to be so soon.
"You can do that? I mean like now"
"Oh sure. Lie back"
She applied local anesthesia, which as a needle phobic I would normally pale at, but today was different. After some slight pressure, the mole was gone and she was telling me I could sit up. She told me the results should come back in two weeks. Two weeks is a lot of time to wait. Since my appointment my world has felt both very big and very small. Big in that there are some things I can't control, no matter how much I try and small in how alone in this I sometimes feel. The infinity of time itself and the finite nature of life.
I was left alone with the nurse, who was finishing up the notes, pulling my clothes together in a stumbled daze. At the time, all I could remember was thinking "I never got a band aid".
We'll just have to see.
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