Finally got into the opthamologist’s office. We’ll call him “Dr. Opth.”

He puts about 4 different drops in my eyes, looks at them through all those machines, and then calls his partner in to take a look. Then he goes back to staring at my eyes through the machines. This is a guy who doesn’t like to say anything until HE’S ready.

He’s asking a few questions but when he gets to “is there a history of rare cancers in your family” I know this isn’t going to turn out to be just a good ol’ dry eye problem.

When he finally finishes checking out my eyes, he tells me that there are a couple of possibilities. However, Dr. Opth feels fairly strongly that my “bump” is melanoma. He sees a little brown spot in the bump that’s like a small freckle and that’s common with melanoma. However, we can’t be sure what it is until we do a biopsy, which requires surgical removal of the bump.

Frankly, I got lucky. It seems that Dr. Opth has actually had a couple of eyeball melanoma cases before and, since it’s quite rare, this is unusual. But at least he knows what it looks like.

We scheduled a visante OCT scan to give him more information about the bump.