A Funny Story that Must Be Recorded

This is more of an embarrassing story for me, but it still needs to be recorded so it won't be forgotten.

When Max and I got back from Dallas on Sunday, I noticed a very strange mark at the base of Wyatt's neck, just over his left collarbone. It looked like raised, discolored skin. I asked my mom and mother-in-law if either of them had seen him get hurt while they watched our kids over the weekend. I though maybe he'd gotten some kind of rug burn or rope burn--perhaps he'd had a rope or something like it over his shoulder and it had pulled across his skin. No one could remember anything. When I touched it, Wyatt didn't say it hurt and it didn't look like a scab so I wasn't sure what to make of it. I looked at it all day Monday, it was still there Tuesday, and even on Wednesday. I decided that this was weird enough that I needed to get it checked. What if it was some crazy virus or cancerous growth or something that needed to be caught right away?

So I called and made an appointment with our doctor for Thursday. We really like our doctor, Dr. Tullis. He lived in my neighborhood growing up. Our kids have been on the same t-ball team, he's laid back, and just really nice. So we go in to see him and Wyatt shows him his neck. The doctor looks at it and says, "Yeah, that does look weird." So he got out his magnifying thing with a light on it to get a closer look. Then he said, "I'm going to see if it will move at all" and he got out a tongue depressor and prodded it a little bit. Part of it pulled up a bit and he tugged it off. Wyatt winced just a little so I thought maybe it was just some kind of really weird scab. Dr. Tullis said he wanted to run look at it under a microscope and he'd be right back.

When he came back in he said, "You know, there's only a couple human cells on it, so I want to try something..." He then went to the drawer, pulled out an alcohol wipe and proceeded to rub the strange growth off of Wyatt's neck, with me saying, "Are you serious? Is it just gum or something?...I am so embarrassed...I promise I bathe my children," and finally, "So how are you going to write this in your notes? Used alcohol wipe to clean neck of 5 yo brought in by crazy paranoid mother who doesn't seem to wash her children?" Luckily Dr. Tullis was very nice about it and didn't make me feel any stupider than I already did on my own.