Last Friday I had a routine appointment with the breast surgeon. I took the opportunity to complain about my right arm which has been a bit achy and slightly swollen lately. I was afraid it could be lymphoedema but he quickly dismissed my concerns. However, he raised a new one. I have a suspicious looking mole on my back. He took measurements, made some notes and said we would keep an eye on it. Well, he will keep an eye because it’s right in the middle of my back, where even with a mirror I am not able to see it properly. I didn’t really think much about this until now. I decided to do what doctors keep tell me not to, I went to “Dr. Google” for information. Apparently women with breast cancer have a higher risk of developing melanoma. Great, another thing to keep me awake at night! It is most probably just another mole, like any of the hundreds I have, but I have to admit that today I spent some time trying to turn my head back as much as I could in order to see the famous suspicious mole. Completely useless, all I got was a stiff neck and eyeball pain. As a last resort I made S. describe in detail how the mole looks like. He refused to take a picture of it claiming it would only make me even more paranoid. Paranoid, me?!
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