The Growth

So I am in the bath when I feel this horrible crusty lump under my foot…

I twist my foot around to examine the underside (as far as my torn knee cartilage will allow)  and sure enough, there is a  crusty-looking raised mole-like growth, slap-bang in the centre of my left sole.

Ominously, it was dark brown and about a centimetre and a half in diameter.

You hear about such things don’t you?  I mean… it had appeared so suddenly!  And I am thinking “This is it.  I’m a goner”.

My mind is racing as I step out of the bath and reach for a towel.  I was thinking how it was strange that I hadn’t felt anything during the day, especially as I’d spent much of Sunday padding about the house bare foot.

Then I look back into the bath just in time to watch an Elastoplast float down the plughole.

It was dark brown and about a centimetre and a half in diameter!