Tomorrow morning I’ll be waiting for the dermatology office at U of M to open (of course, it’s the one day of the week they open at 10 instead of 8:30!).  I’ve had this bump above my lip for a couple of weeks now.  I knew it wasn’t a cold sore/fever blister because, trust me, I know those things.  I figured it was a pimple that just wouldn’t go away.

It’s changed a little (ding! ding! ding!), and it actually seemed to be drying out and going away. Yesterday morning, I picked at it – it seemed like dry skin!  It started to bleed.  It bled pretty well, but eventually stopped.   Last night, I accidentally itched it and it started to bleed again. When I finally got it to stop, it only took a few minutes before I grazed it with my hand. Yep, bloody mess again.

In bed last night, I was googling ideas for pimples that keep bleeding. Cancer came up and my stomach dropped.

DUH.

Shouldn’t skin cancer be the FIRST thing I think of??

Basal, squamous, maybe nothing.  But obviously, I better get it checked out.

Fingers crossed I can get in quickly and they laugh at me and my adult acne.

It hasn’t bled today, but it looks like a blister or a pimple.