self-portraits of someone who hates self-portraits

Aug 11, 2009

holy moley something has gotten onto my skin.

growing up, i never had any freckles. maybe a few here and there, but never enough to be a freckled kid. these days it's a completely different story. my face is littered with them, and more are cropping up each day.

in addition to these little spatterings, i have also developed a few moles. now i am definitely positive i didn't have any of these as a kid. these buggers are all from my adult life, and now they're making me worry. see that fatty a bit below and to the left of my ear? i swear to you it is growing. it's itchy, and after a day in the sun it is now peeling (i was wearing 85 spf folks, 85!). this strikes me as not good. which is why i spent way too much time trying to make an appointment with the determatologist in order to have it looked at and possibly removed. i called five places and the closest appointment was in two weeks (the one i want to go to is in a month). and i don't know about you, but i think two weeks is too far away. surely this mole will devour my face by then. mark my word. devour.

posted by
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:38pm

Dermatologist is a good idea. I wouldn't worry about the wait though--a few weeks won't kill you (or will it?!?).

I don't recommend removing them yourself. I had this skin tag (oy, that's a gross term) that was bugging me a week or two ago, but rather than go to the dermatologist, I decided to pull out a bottle of vodka, needle-nose pliers and a razor blade. Again, I don't recommend home surgery.


posted by
Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:55pm

waha?! home surgery?! you is crazy. skin tags creep me out though, i can see why you'd do it though. ick.


posted by
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 12:32am

I know: what was I thinking. I may have been subconsciously inspired by Jonathan, who, a week earlier, decided to drain blood trapped under his fingernail by taking a power drill to the nail.

On a positive note, my home surgery seems to have been a total success!


posted by
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 10:05am

home. surgery.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


posted by stacey Southwick
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 8:51pm

it's good you made an appt. with the derm. If it's itchy and changing, definitely get it checked out! Some sun damage actually takes 10 years to surface... so some stuff you are seeing now may have been from any sun damage that you may have gotten 10 years ago, crazy eh?


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