Holy crap, he figured out how to do it! And helpfully emailed me to tell me "Ok...figured out how to do that...thx."

I should have said "Ask your daughter, dude."

It's cute when they think they're being helpful.

For values of cute that include screams.

Theo, I have one of those. Did you go to a dermatologist or your primary care doc? (My primary care doc says he can remove it, and I generally trust him, but I feel like a dermatologist would be better equipped to handle it.)

Mine is up past my hairline, so it's not visible, which is why I've been putting it off.

For values of cute that include screams.

Screams, sure, and also violently wishing that you could punch someone through the intertubes.

Totally makes sense, Rick. And I can see how if you're savvy, it would seem unfair that you can't just keep using track changes in Word or something! You'd think there'd be a way to require that to stay on or something.

Yeah, certain people here like to give me edits that aren't tracked and it makes me nuts. And I miss half of them, because fuck that noise, I don't trust that they are that valuable! Except, of course when they are. Just track changes, people! I need better version control.

And I can see how if you're savvy, it would seem unfair that you can't just keep using track changes in Word or something!

The only problem is we can't assume all authors are that savvy. And it's really easy to just delete changes we made, and that isn't something that's tracked, not in the way that adding new text or deleting text is tracked. So if an author didn't like our edits and just went in and clicked the x to undo them, it wouldn't immediately be apparent when we opened the file. We would have to compare our version and the author's version line by line to see what had been changed, and that is too time-consuming. The volume of articles we have makes it impossible for that to be feasible.

scan it back in at a (meaningless) high resolution

Why is high resolution meaningless? The resolution affects how it prints.

Steph, given the minor degree of difficulty that a benign cyst like this presents, I'd say go with the general practitioner if it's up under the hairline. If there is some scarring (mine was next to unnoticeable until the secondary cyst started up and I got a bump), up under the hair no one will know.

For mine, in the middle of my forehead, I really wanted a dermatologist skilled in fancy stitching that would close the wound up nicely.

My forehead feels nice and flat again, even with the bandage on. But then I felt like I had Jupiter's Great Red Spot on before....

FWIW, I can't say I noticed anything!

My forehead feels nice and flat again, even with the bandage on. But then I felt like I had Jupiter's Great Red Spot on before....

Mine is pretty big; I'm just lucky it's under the hairline. I had no idea what it was when it showed up, and it freaked me out hard. My doctor said it was either a lipoma or a cyst, but it's not squishy, so probably not a lipoma. And then he gleefully said, "I can cut it off right here! ...I mean, I can excise the cyst in the office." He's hilarious. (For real; that's not sarcasm.)