So one day after a shower I notice a mole below my bellybutton that I hadn’t seen before. It slips my mind and I ignore it. Few months after that I notice it again and take a look. Fucking thing is odd shaped but, more concerning, it’s slightly raised and scaly. So I scratch it and it bleeds. Never seeing this before I punch up google and get back cancer. Several types but most consistent with melanoma. So I ignore it again. See it a few months later. It still bleeds if you scratch it enough. Google again - cancer. This time I make an appointment with the skin doc. I start to get bent two days before because I’ve already had a cancer battle (still a surveillance patient at MDA) and cannot put up with this shit again. I get to the appointment and the doc takes out a mini-telescope and has a look for three seconds. She tells me it’s a seborrheic keratosis, non-cancerous and completely common. Especially among older folks. I look that shit up when I get home and sure enough, it looks like melanoma but is like 100x more common. So sucks getting old but fuck google when I search for a relatively simple mole/blemish thing. “seborrheic keratosis” didn’t pop out at all, just cancer, cancer, cancer.