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Acrochordon

What do I have in common with people who are overweight, have diabetes and/or are pregnant? A little thing called acrochordon my friends. What I'm trying to say is... I have a skin tag. As I was sitting on the couch, enoying a little Tangled with my cousins this weekend I felt something on my neck and thought I might have gotten a freak winter bug bite. Upon further investigation in the bathroom I realized what I had was a skin tag. Now, I have seen these on plenty of people in the past, but never on my own skin. Clearly, I wanted it to disappear immediately which is why I offered my cousin Laura $10 to bite it off remove it. For some reason, she didn't want to help. That was Saturday. Now fast-forward to Sunday and Laura was humming a different tune.

As we sat at the breakfast table in Midland, Michigan with 8 of my other family members the frightening little tag was brought to the forefront of conversation yet again. All of a sudden Laura wasn't quite so afraid of the little guy and she was vying to be the one who got to twist it off. Unfortunately, she couldn't get a good grip. Ta da! That's when a light bulb went off! There was a string hanging from my sweatshirt and she immediately crafted a mini lasso to wrangle that tiny bull off my neck!

The bull was lassoed all right, but he wasn't budging. This is when the pain actually started to kick-in and the hilarity of grossing my aunts/uncle out at the breakfast table was wearing off now that my neck was beginning to throb. So I have this creepy string tied to this creepy tumor (yes, I looked it up on wikipedia, and technically it is a little benign tumor) and I'm experiencing some discomfort. Thankfully, my uncle is a doctor and he agreed to freeze the thing off after breakfast so we took a little family field trip so everyone could enjoy watching me get zapped.

There is still a little tiny piece of string wrapped around my skin tag, but I am expecting it to fall off tomorrow. It has started to turn kind of dark-red and is getting a little bit crispy. So, all I'm here to tell you is, if you have a skin tag... don't let your cousins wrap string around it, because it hurts long beyond the point of humor.

I'll post an update when it drops!

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