The good news was that the pathology results showed it was an ordinary cyst. The not-so-good news was that I had my blood tested while I was at it. Everything else was fine, but my blood lead level was a little high...
Looking back now, I had worried a bit too much. Ahem.
But at the time, it really did look quite serious.
It had originally been tiny, just a gray bump, and it had not changed for years.
Then this year, it grew larger and darker, and fast at that. Before I took half a day off, the edges had already ulcerated. Then I looked it up online, and it matched melanoma perfectly...
I already had a hemangioma to begin with...
In any case, I successfully crossed this little hill and will keep moving forward.
Thank you all for your support!
Starting tomorrow, I will resume two updates a day.
After all, I am a writer, so before it was diagnosed, I let my imagination run wild. I even started thinking about what profession I would choose in another world, and considered putting out all my creative ideas in the hope that someone might write them...
What I felt most strongly at the time was a sense of urgency and unwillingness to accept defeat, because I still had dreams left unfulfilled and things I wanted to do.
Now it was over, but that feeling still lingered in my mind.
Actually, over the past few months, I had already begun exercising again, increased the time I spent on mindfulness meditation, and greatly improved the time I spent reading and studying. And now, after being hit with this again, it felt like a revelation from heaven, as though something in the unseen had tapped me on the shoulder.
So, I have