I wrote last year about a mother whose concern about a lump prompted her to
have it removed.  She abscessed "upstream" from the incision site, and the
golf-ball-sized abscess nearly ruptured the skin before they re-opened the
incision and drained it.

Everything has healed well, except that the skin is slightly discolored
over the almost-ruptured spot.  And just to the side of that is another
area that's slightly paler than the rest of her skin.  Three times in the
past few months, this dime-sized area has abruptly become raised and itchy,
with a flatter red ring around the raised area.  Within an hour, it
resolves.  The first time it happened, she thought something had bitten
her.

Any clues?  A co-Leader said she gets occasional inflamed sebaceous cysts
that do the same thing - a raised, itchy patch surrounded by a red ring -
but that resolve over a period of a day or so.  Weird!  This mother also
has a tendency toward recurrent plugs and oversupply, nothing else unusual.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY