@Butrflynet,
Ah, but total palm presence was more like approaching a year, much of it grey though. Snorts - that sounds defensive, but, but, but, I worried it was a beginner, not when it was grey - the worry was the fairly sudden - not coinciding with BVT's post, but just before that - and then continued very darkness and sort of beginning raggedy edge that made my nose twitch, and then read that melanoma often presents in the palm, and, I gather, soles of feet. (See BVT, not too long ago.)
I'm odd in that I've been around really good medical practice and now it is more catch as catch can or cannot. A culture change - but complex one in that I had a bad surgery back at the end of having (high deduct) insurance, which resulted in four more of those, and some good care while in N. Mexico as a clinic person.
My antennae can be off, but I've been a lucky one so far.
I've not really spent a life worried about melanoma, my big sun exposure being when I was young and even more dumb as a paleface but tempered as I got older. One day I'll show y'all a pic of me in a black velvet bikini in Mexico, surely the cause of all this recent trouble afoot.
Meantime, I liked the doctor. As I said to Bfly, kind of manic. (I suppose you can get that way faced with a patient who is in worry wildness, if presenting as a mildly jolly/serious quipper. We talked about my shoes and foot powder (he was looking at the soles of my feet). Told me at the foot inspection that he noticed my deposited shoes as he came in the door (he knocked) and thought they were cute. I've had other talks with doctors about my shoes. Danskos from GoodWill, with a kind of animal skin like look. My female eye surgeon wore danskos, noticed mine right away, dansko women hands around the world - I bet they all have high arches.)
Bfly said he had had skin cancer himself. He was a primo charmer, but I like him despite that. Also liked the nursing assistant or whatever her position is. She was quick and on the ball.
