Another backdated post, just for completeness of story. I don’t seem to have the exact date in my calendar, but it was around about now, right after Christmas and into the new year that I went to the local GP to show and tell on the little mark on my left shoulder.
As I said in the first post on this blog, she seemed to think it was an infection of some kind, which I agreed with because it did look exactly like that on otherwise clear looking skin, and nothing like a mole gone bad. I was prescribed some antibiotics for a week, and went back for a repeat prescription as it didn’t seem to do anything, in fact it spread slghtly.
Which of course given what I found out later, ordinary penicillin antibiotics wouldn’t really help, and time was wasting. But who was to know it was an extremely rare (1 in millions) autoimmune disease that most people had never heard of?
It was after this at some point I noticed a couple of marks on my other shoulder and a couple on my chest. At no point in these early stages was I worried as I’d had mild infections in the past – I was born in 1959, so plenty of water under the bridge – and this was just something else. An annoying rash.
How bad could it be?
