Saturday, worried

Okay, so, first of all, I've found a hard round lump under my chin, back near my throat--the middle of my chin, so it's not a lymph node--that's about the size of a dime. It's under a layer of skin and fat, shut up so I can't see it, but it's obviously pretty deep, so it's not some kind of blemish. It didn't hurt until I started prodding at it, at which point it started to get a little surly. Someone suggested it might be a cyst, which I like better than my instantaneous self-diagnosis of Fatal Chin Cancer, although no one suggested this until after I'd lost a night of sleep worrying about it. So. Short of running to a doctor (and we all know how often I manage that) and demanding that s/he examine and/or remove my Chin Cancer NOW, how can I figure out what it is and what, if anything, can or should be done about it? Like, is it likely to be a cyst? Will it go away by itself? Can I stop writing out my last will and testament?

(You laugh, but after Dooce's experiences with cancerous growths, I'm not trifling with this shit. I'd rather run to a doctor and get it removed now than get told a year from now, "Well, you have two weeks to live, but if we'd caught it sooner...")

Second of all: What ever happened to diarist.net? I get faithful solicitations from their mailing list as to whether I would like to unsubscribe or not, but I don't think the site itself has updated in three years.

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