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#LoveMe Challenge – just for me

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Today for the #LoveMe Challenge, I’m supposed to share something that’s just for me. I’m not exactly sure what to do for this one. Just for me? Amelanotic nodular melanoma isn’t really something that just affects me, otherwise they would have named it after me 😉 and besides, hopefully, that’s not part of me anymore. I guess I’ll find out… Read more »

#LoveMe Challenge – a note to my future self

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Today’s #LoveMe Challenge is to write a note to your future self… Dear Future Nicole – First of all, I’d like to apologize for taking for granted that you will even exist. I know I spend sometimes excessive amounts of time worrying about the future and assuming that you would be there to handle things. Well, the last month made… Read more »

#LoveMe Challenge – a note to my pre-cancer younger self

For today’s #LoveMe Challenge task, I am to write a note to my younger self. Here goes… Dear younger Nicole – First of all, for God’s sake, start wearing sunscreen more religiously! If you saw the scar we’re going to have from skin cancer, you’d bathe in SPF 50 right now. That being said, we both know how much the… Read more »

Paranoia, hope, and whatever’s in between

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Now that I know that I can make pink melanoma, I’ve been obsessively looking at all my other moles, regardless of what color they are, what shape they are. I’m sure it’s going to be a lifelong obsession – along with trying to find the highest SPF sunscreen my body will tolerate. Naturally, I’m a little concerned about another pink… Read more »