I can only say that we have been looked after from above. A couple of months ago I noticed that I had something that looked like a wart growing on my cheek. Needless to say I was not happy about it. I called and made an appointment with my dermatologist. About a week before the appointment, I was sitting on the couch and Jane walked by me and said, "You have a spot on the top of your head. Have the doctor look at it while you are there next week". At the appointment I had the doctor remove the "thing" from my cheek and had him look at my head. He said that the spot did look questionable and wanted to do a biopsy of it. A week later I had a call from him. (not from the staff, but from him). He told me that I had tested positive for melanoma. He referred me to a specialist. He also told me to have an eye exam and to let my children and siblings know that my testing positive increased their odds. The eye exam was totally clear.
We then went to see the specialist. He told us that what they had found was a level 1A which is the earliest stage of melanoma. He said that I would need to have surgery to have a portion of my scalp removed to insure that all the cancer was gone. He also said that I might have to have a skin graft to cover the area.
On Tuesday I had the surgery. I struggled with the knock out stuff and was unable to keep anything down the first night. Wednesday we went back to the specialist to get the final results. It was all good news. First, all the cancer was removed so I would not have to lose any more scalp and he was able to get the wound closed so no skin graft. I have a neat trail of staples across my head, which will stay in for another week.
We are truly blessed to have been able to find this so early and get it taken care of.
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