It was palpable under the skin of my sole, a small painful nodule. The location and history of injury was kind of a give away, occasional people (with proliferative tendencies, didn't know I had those) react that way. diagnosis was certain with biopsy after first resection. Never would've messed with it but the sucker was in a bad spot and painful! Over one inch and I could've dealt with it.

Meant to say earlier that the nerve problems I developed early on with all the swelling from the rupture included buzzing that eventually spread to my whole left side and fasiculations. I was in major overdrive even before the official nerve injury. The buzzing and fasiculations did calm down over time.