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<\/p>\nThis\u00a0article\u00a0is cross posted from The Kidney Cancer Chronicles.<\/p>\n
Heading up to Johns Hopkins for the biopsy of Chris\u2019 mole Wednesday, he was still trying to stick to his story. The photos of his mole that looked unnervingly like melanoma were everywhere. He had been tweeting them, I was sure of it. When Chris got off the phone with Congressman Anthony Wiener after thanking him for his advice, I grew even more suspicious.<\/p>\n
Oh, no, Chris insisted. No, he hadn\u2019t taken those photos and tweeted them. His Twitter account had been hacked. It was a joke, a prank.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho cares if you were hacked? Is that your mole or not?\u201d I demanded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t verify \u2013 I mean, it could be anybody\u2019s mole. Somebody could have manipulated that photo,\u201d he stammered back.<\/p>\n
Then he tried to turn the tables: \u201cYou should be ashamed, asking me if I\u2019d take photos of my mole and tweet them.\u201d<\/p>\n
It started to work, and I began to doubt myself \u2013 until we got to the Dermatology Surgery Division and met Dr. Wang (yes, that\u2019s his real name). Then, he could deny it no longer. Turns out, Chris had been sending pictures of his moles to any nurse or doctor at Johns Hopkins who had a Twitter handle. When he pulled out his iPhone and started flipping through pictures of his mole, how it had grown and turned color \u2013 Dr. Wang just waved his hand and said, \u201cI\u2019ve seen these already.\u201d<\/p>\n
Busted.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m asking Nancy Pelosi to launch an investigation of Chris while she\u2019s investigating Congressman Wiener.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, we\u2019ll wait to get the pathology report back from the biopsies of the two moles that Dr. Wang took. We should know something within a week; however, he encouraged us greatly by saying he was pretty confident that the moles were seborrheic keratoses. As we tried to pronounce that in our heads, he took pity on us and called them \u201cSKs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turns out that SKs are notorious for looking exactly like melanoma, and cause an awful lot of people an awful lot of anxiety (and biopsies). But the good news is that they are not malignant. We\u2019re hopeful this is indeed the answer, and we\u2019ll know for sure very soon. But we feel good about it.<\/p>\n
And now that Chris has finally admitted to his mole-sharing indiscretions \u2013 we can all move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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