shower scare

Monday morning I was taking a shower. It seemed like any other normal shower. Until... I leaned over to wash my leg, and found a lump on my skin about the size of an M&M to the right of my knee cap. It was all covered with hair and was pretty nasty looking.

I started wondering where it could have come from. I had chopped down a tree over the weekend and so I was thinking maybe I got some weird bump in the process, or maybe some variety of tree living beetle had bitten me or laid eggs in my skin.

These were the thoughts going through my head when suddenly...

I touched the lump of skin and it MOVED. It was attached to my leg at one end an free on the other.

That's right folks. A skin tag.

I am not even going to Google image "skin tag" because it will make me throw up.

My mind raced. How had a skin tag grown on my leg over the weekend? Do they grow that fast? Had I gotten some weird infection from the apricot tree?

I then thought of all the people I met in Puerto Rico who had skin tags. See for some reason over there they never removed them, and oh man- I saw some dandys.

Then I thought about how embarassing it would be to wear shorts.

I closed my eyes, then reached down too touched it. To my horror it ripped off of my skin. Now I almost screamed. I had ripped the skin tag off my leg. I looked down to see if I was bleeding.

Yeah... it was pink bubble gum that one of the kids had somehow gotten in our bed.

Not a skin tag.

Nope.