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Another Angry Woman

You know what, gonna take this saltiness as a moment to do a bit of raising cancer awareness, because there are five warning signs of a mole being melanoma and this fucker, pictured with the genuine markup that doctors use to tell the surgeon what to remove, had FOUR of them (and I knew it was dodgy and needed to come off, it just took ages etc etc).

A small flat mole on my leg, about the size of the top of a pencil. It is a circle with another smaller circle coming out of it, giving the effect of a cell in mitosis. It is mostly mid brown with some black bits, particularly in the smaller area. The edges are blurred.
8 November at 17:22 | Open on masto.ai
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Another Angry Woman

The warning signs have a neat acronym: ABCDE.
A = asymmetry. Normal moles are pretty symmetrical, the dodgy ones are a weird shape.
B = borders. Normal moles have a pretty well-defined border. Dodgy ones like mine have hazy borders. If you zoom in on mine, it looks smudgy round the edges.
C = colour. Normal moles are mostly a pretty even colour. Dodgy ones have varied colours. Mine had a much darker patch.

8 November at 17:26 | Open on masto.ai
Another Angry Woman

D = diameter. Bigger moles are more worrying. That's the only warning sign I didn't have.
E = evolving. Rapid changes are a cause for concern and readers, this dodgy mole looked ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE THAT a year ago. It was a neat little mid brown circle.

So anyway, see a doctor if your mole is fucked up in any of the ABCDE ways because apparently it takes forever for them to take the damn thing off.

8 November at 17:27 | Open on masto.ai
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