Kendra, and anyone else who might be to shy to ask, the most difficult part of an event in one's life like this is the agonizing over the decision to do something, or the waiting for an answer -- In retrospect, the actualities of the doing or the answer (either good or bad) are not as bad as what we impose on ourselves while trying to make a decision.

I personally believe that our senses of denial can be very strong, and the act of making an appointment, or in this case, your first step of posting here for advice, conflict with that denial because that first step is also recognition that something COULD be wrong, so making the step is hard.

As far as what happens, I have been having suspicious lesions biopsied for over a decade, but this time I had something more like what you describe -- It doubled in size in two weeks, but because I had been given a steroid rinse for irritation at the biopsied sites, I at first thought it was a callous of some sort. My powers of denial and self-deceit continue to amaze me! I finally kicked myself in the butt and went to the ENT.

He looked at it and said "That doesn't belong there and it needs to be biopsied", so he scheduled ambulatory surgery for two days later and took it out. Waiting for the biopsy results was hard and then I had to make an office visit to get the results (apparently in Washington, biopsy results cannot be given over the phone).

Clearly, the first moment I was suspicious of that growth, I should have be off to the ENT like a rocket! Fortunately, it didn't make much difference in my case.

Pete