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 »
I check one of those “days of the month” calendars to see if there’s anything fun I can use for the Twitter account I maintain at work (because I’m trying to not be all corporate-y all the time, even though I probably will get in trouble someday for the funny memes I post since I am positive the brand team… Read more »
It’s been 3 years to the day since I had my excision. It doesn’t seem possible. But it’s been 3 years since cancer was cut from my leg. While I’ve had a number of bullet holes from various biopsies (including a big old circle from my most recent one), so far, I’ve managed to avoid having another excision. I could… Read more »
So I received an email from a reader who basically said, “It’s great that you had a fantastic trip and all that; but we haven’t seen how your scar is progressing in a long time”. I know you guys love the scar photos so… To the day, it’s been two and a half years since the excision. I’ve shown some… Read more »
It’s back-to-school time for a lot of families here in the United States and my Facebook feed is stuffed full of images of friends’ children all decked out for the first day of school. I have no children and generally scroll past these images thinking to myself “how the hell did my friends get so old that they could have… Read more »
Today marks the year anniversary of my excision. It’s strange how time can fly. It seems like that day was long ago and yet, also feel like it was only yesterday. It’s been a year of worry, fear, sadness, and pain (literal and metaphorical); but it’s also been a year of acceptance, happiness, hope, and even joy. The excision removed… Read more »
A few days ago, I celebrated a milestone of sorts. It’s been nine months since the excision. I’m in San Francisco for work and have been doing quite a bit of walking this past week. The scar still aches at times, and if I’m going uphill, it can be somewhat sharp. And when I get off the elliptical, it seems… Read more »
It is my sixth month anniversary of my excision…Six months since the diagnosis of melanoma became real. I was aware of the fact that there was an invader in my system; but that morning, riding in the car with my husband and my parents to the dermatologist’s office, the fact that I had skin cancer was very real in a… Read more »
It has been a few days since the five-month mark of my amelanotic nodular melanoma excision. In a week or so, it’ll be the six-month mark from my diagnosis. Obviously, I get to celebrate that milestone with a visit to the dermatologist for my every-three-months check-up. At this point, I’m not exactly sure that she’ll find any moles that will… Read more »
I’m noticing an interesting trend here on Pink Melanoma. There seems to be lots of inquiries regarding what amelanotic nodular melanoma is and specifically people landing on a previous page here on the blog. Look, I’ll be honest. I really hope people are searching that term because they’ve heard how wildly entertaining this blog is. But the reality is, people… Read more »