There's a huge scab on on the left side of Trump's forehead. *

[Ms. Toad]

62. Maybe, maybe not.

I was in the Cleveland Clinic within a week of the lesion changing (it had been there a while - and didn't have any of the ABCs that warn of cancer, then it suddenly dramatically in a short period of time - the C in ABC).

Unfortunately, since I wanted an appointment sooner than 3 months out (standard wait time, even for lesions that have classic cancer characteristics), I had to take the doc who had open appointments because he was the only one no one wanted to see.

He initially refused to biopsy it. I insisted. He made me come back later (not standard) did a half-baked job - didn't get clean margins (even though he told me he did). I had to insist on talking to pathology to learn that even though the general type of lesion is pretty common and benign, the characteristic that made it come back quickly (and two other characteristics) means it is a sub-type that may only mimic the benign form - and that it should be treated as cancerous even though it is not formally classified that way.

So I was being extremely proactive (I nearly always am). I'm not sure that learning it did not have clean margins would have prevented the need for a second excision (although had I insisted they go back in right away might have made the second excision smaller and at an angle more conducive to avoiding dog ears).