Dermatologist

I haven't visited my dermatologist since last July, which is when she referred me to a plastic surgeon who took a biopsy¹ from a growth on my neck after which I was referred to undergo Moh's surgery² to remove that growth. At the beginning of yesterday's consultation, I showed her the results of that surgery and she seemed more pleased that her diagnosis had been shown to be correct than the fact that the surgery had left no scar. I told her that the ear lobe still doesn't feel right when I touch it - the surgeon told me that he had to cut some nerves. The dermatologist was surprised by this.

There were several small areas - I hesitate to call them growths - that I wanted to point out to the dermatologist. Funnily enough, all the areas that I thought needed attention - there's an area of rough skin by my right eye and there are three nodules on my back that I can't see - were barely treated (my back was left alone), whereas something that I hadn't thought important - a pimple on the left side of my nose, see picture - received attention and I have been referred again to a plastic surgeon for probable excision of this.

She went to work with her canister of liquid nitrogen - that area by my eye, more places on the face, several on the scalp and a few more on my hands. Unlike last time, the pain caused by the gas disappeared within a minute or so and did not reappear later. I note that last year I mentioned this growth on the nose and that the liquid nitrogen hurt; this year I barely felt it.

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