The GP I saw wasn’t my usual one but I showed him my mole and he was very relaxed about it. He said it was a lesion and completely harmless. He even gave me a leaflet about that specific type of lesion and for the first time since I started Googling this thing I actually saw a photo of a mole that looked like mine and it was perfectly harmless. What a relief. He froze it there and then and said within a week it would scab over and fall off. He recommended I book an appointment in 2 weeks with my usual GP just to check it had fallen off as expected. I walked out of the surgery feeling a mix of emotions. I was ultimately relieved that what I had partly convinced myself was something really nasty was in fact just a little lesion that would be gone in a week. I also felt stupid that I had made it such a big deal in my mind. Everyone says don’t self-diagnose things on the internet and that’s just what I had done! However, a small part of me also felt that something just wasn’t quite right. I’m fully aware this sounds very clichéd but a small part of me felt that although a qualified doctor had just told me that it was completely harmless and nothing to worry about, this wasn’t the end of it.

I spent the next few days pretty comfortable with everything. Whilst I had the slight nagging in my mind that this wasn’t over I decided that maybe that was just human nature being overly cautious. The leaflet the doctor had given me gave me all the proof I needed. There was a photo of an example of the type of lesion I had and it was identical to the mole on my foot. It could have been a photo of my foot. That was good enough for me.

Over the course of the next week or so the lesion didn’t scab over and fall off. It started to become a bit harder on the surface, like it was trying to scab over but it most definitely didn’t fall off. Not ideal but maybe the doctor just hadn’t given it enough of a blast with the freezing thing. Nothing to worry my pretty little self about, said no-one, ever but I wasn’t worried anyway! Well, not too worried.