That’s the good news, which, admittedly, is pretty damn good news. I called the doctor today since I hadn’t heard back from him yet (and its been two weeks) and waited all day for the call, for it to come in at 5:10. Guess I could’ve left the house after all.

Anyway, he hadn’t called yet, because he had been trying to get more info from other docs, since what the path report showed was something he’d never seen. "Subacute spongiotic dermatitis (with?) eosinophils."  Bladdy blah blah blah, what I hung up understanding was that it was some weird, rare strain of . . . .  dun dun duuuuun….. eczema. Sigh. I think, anyway, I have some questions out there (and feel free to chime in if you’ve had this!) like, is it weird and rare because it’s on my nipple? or in general? but hey, at least I can tear up that Lifetime movie proposal I was working on. (confirmation received while writing this that yes, it’s eczema. WHEE.)

The steri-strips came off last week, and I was sort of hoping that I’d look down and find myself magically cured, but alas, it was not to be. The funkiness is still there.  The scar is about an inch and a half long (and currently sporting a small sprout of monofilament thread from the stitches, that the good doctor told me to just snip off), a straight pinkish line. It’s longer than I expected, honestly, but not as bad as I was imagining in my head. And, let’s say it again, shall we? NOT CANCER.

Next step is to contact a dermatologist, since the itchiness is still there, and totally annoying. Annoying like "laying in bed with clenched fists at sides kicking feet around and gritting teeth trying not to scratch annoying." ANd really, with all the random skin shit that I have going on, it would probably be good to get a derm anyway. 

In other news, I don’t HATE WIndows users, yall. Some of — most of — my best friends use Windows. I guess I am annoyed by the AVERAGE windows user, of which most readers here are not. I’m talking the "oh, my antivirus ran out so whatever" type user that calls me.  The client I had last week is back online, the one that gave me nightmares and such.  I hate leaving stuff unfinished/unfixed, so it was really bugging me, but Verizon came today and replaced her jack, which was fried. It was a pretty old jack, so I’m not surprised.  Also, inall of my questioning of "did you do ANYTHING since I left here?" they answered no, but somehow the phone line got switched into the wrong jack on the PC, which didn’t help. And with those two improvements, i was able to log into the modem and discover that the modem had been wiped of all connection information, which was a breeze to set up, and made me really glad I had written down the un/pw combination 2 weeks ago. Of course, I could have rebuilt the connection in one try if I’d been more clear in writing down the number 2 and not something that I later thought was the letter z. At least I know how to work around my handwriting and compensate for stuff like that.

It also only took 15 minutes, instead of 2 hours, and the lady was thrilled when I left, which is good, because I LIKE spending time with my husband before going to bed.  I also like people not thinking I’m a fraud, too.

And on computers, I just had to order some books I need to read for class — Weaving the Web, by Tim Berners-Lee, and IBM and the Holocaust, by Edwin Black. And I added The Birth Partner for free shipping. I love interesting AMazon orders. 

My diaper order finally shipped, and when I tracked the package, it said that it was "Out for Delivery" . . . ..  in Mongomery, Alabama.  I imagine the UPS guy will get the box and be all "Maine isn’t on my route!" and it will get back in the shipping stream soon, and even if it doesn’t, that’s a pretty irrefutable shipping error.  Good thing I don’t need them TODAY.

Finally, here’s a cool site where you can make a t-shirt based on your blog, and I plugged in my URL and got the following sample: