surgery

My baby daughter had a minor surgery to remove a rather big mole on her face. It's so big that I spotted it right away when she was getting out to this world. I thought it was just some sort of tissue or blood, but soon found out that it's a mole. Since then, we have discussed what we should do about it.

After a copule of weeks, we completely got used to seeing her with the mole, we didn't care as much as others who meet her for the first time. Actually, we even think that the mole makes our baby look cuter.

It's not about what WE think about it, but about what people react to it. Everytime she meets new people, she gets compliments like, wow how cute, she's so adorable etc., at the same time, they pause and look at the mole saying, oh what happened? ah, she's got scar, hey, she's got something on her face...

We cannot leave the mole, and let her future friends tease her. She might get along with it when she gets 30 years old, but I don't think she will be better off without it throughout childhood.

I thought it would be just a quick and easy laser operation, but laser turned out be not the best choice. Cutting it out with a knife seemed the best way and we chose that. The doctor says it will be almost unnoticeable by the time she gets 20 years old. Even though it wasn't a good thing for a little baby to be anesthetized, she got by somehow.

Now, she has a skin-color bandage over the stitches, and I can imagine how she is going to look when the scar cures. She looks much better without the mole. 10 to 20 years later, we, including herself, will not remember how she looked with it.