Let’s be honest, 2018 was not a year that I would want to relive. And now that we’re in a new year, I can look back with a sigh of relief that I managed to get through that year without a recurrence of melanoma. It’s not to say that simply flipping a calendar page (wait, do people younger than my… Read more »
This week, I celebrated the four year anniversary of my excision. I’ve reached a pretty big milestone in terms of being able to be cautiously optimistic that perhaps my pink melanoma won’t return. At least it isn’t lurking in another patch of skin, although it could be sitting dormant in my cells. I think about where I was in my… Read more »
Last year was one of the best travel years I’ve ever had. This year, well, while I did do some traveling, it was mostly either for work or up to Ohio or for my birthday/mourning my dad (although I did get to do my Florida Adam Ant midlife concert tour earlier in the year too). But I have another trip… Read more »
It’s not a stretch to say that this has been one of the most challenging years I’ve had since my melanoma diagnosis in 2014. Between losing my dad to having some significant battles over getting the water damage to my condo repaired to recent corporate developments that may leave my position “redundant” sometime around the holidays, it just seems like… Read more »
Despite the roller coaster weather we’ve been having here in Austin, this is a really fun place to live. Austin City Limits is the annual 2 October weekends of over 100 artists, 6 stages, food, and more. It can be exhausting to try to experience everything ACL has to offer in 3 days, a lesson I learned the hard way… Read more »
I’m looking out of my window and it’s been this weird misty fog every morning here in Austin for the last week or so. Sometimes, it burns off in the afternoon. Sometimes, it lingers all day. Usually the weather in October here is glorious but so far this month, it’s been highly unusual. But maybe this weather is perfect for… Read more »
There has been a flurry of news reports regarding a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that claims scientists may have developed a vaccine that when used in conjunction with other cancer therapies increases the chances of melanoma survival rates. The researchers developed a so-called cancer vaccine and then decided to look at whether using a combination… Read more »
Hey y’all, I’m very excited to let you know that I’ve moved my blog to my own domain: pinkmelanoma.com! You may have visited the blog only see that there has been some changes to the appearance of pinkmelanoma. But maybe you didn’t see that the URL has changed too. Don’t worry, all of the content on the blog has moved… Read more »
Today is one of those days that should be uniting us against the darkness of fanaticism and tribalism. I remember for a number of weeks right after 9/11, there was no divisive name-calling across the political aisle. There was none of the rancor and hatred directly towards some group deemed less American than others that we’re mired in now. Instead,… Read more »
So, I’m up in Ohio this week to hang out with my mom and try to be helpful for some of the remaining financial and legal tasks from dealing with my dad’s passing. It’s really weird to be in the house and not have my dad here or at least not needing to get going up to the hospital. I… Read more »