Moley Me

Almost a month ago now I got a 3 moles biopsied (90% removed). As I am the product of a moley man who tans well and a red head with freckles I somehow ended up in the middle with lots of teensy moles. To be precise there were 28 on my stomach, now down to 25. I had around 17 of them before we wen to Hawaii a few years ago and they multiplied after a burn. My skin doc said I should get 6 biopsied, but luckily since the first 3 were normal the other 25 are safe for now!

For anyone who has ever had this done, you can surely sympathize with the lack of pain during the mini procedure, and the ridiculously long healing time. I'd describe it as a semi constant throbbing pain for 2 weeks followed by a week of itchiness. I took out my own stiches (as doing it at work seemed unsanitary) which really diminished the itch factor.

Turns out the difference in the amount of skin removed between a biopsy and a removal isn't much. From what I can tell 99% of my biopsied moles are gone. The skin doc said with removal they take off all the extra round the edges. Lucky for me I can keep that 1%, which is pretty much hidden by the ridiculous scar (photos forthcoming). Really with how far surgeries have come these days something simple like this should not leave such a gigantic scar.