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  • Opticalboy

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    Many of the longer serving members of the community will remember Opticalboy and his very graphic blog about melanoma, and the problems that he had healing after surgery.

    It brings me great sorrow to have to tell you that Peter died suddenly this morning, after discovering that his melanoma has metastasised shortly before Christmas.

    Peter was a genuinely lovely guy, with a wicked sense of humour that I was often the…

  • Wide excision for melanoma

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    Hevvur made a comment on optical boy's blog about how large his WLE was in consideration to his original mole.  My own primary melanoma was tiny in comparison to his, it was 7 millimetre in diameter and only 1.4 millimetre thick, and while my photo isn't so graphic, you can see that the scar's nonetheless quite spectacular!

    As for the ensuing groin dissection... well I do have my modesty, so no photo of…

  • JanJan

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    I'm sure many of you will remember JanJan, who initially joined the site as a carer for her dad, who was suffering from lung cancer and her father-in-law who was suffering from bladder cancer.  Jan was a cancer nurse herself and gave a great deal of support to other members. 

    You may recall that last Autumn she was undergoing tests, that saw her, in a cruel twist of fate being diagnosed with, I think, leukaemia.  The…

  • Clemmie

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    Many of the old What Now regular chatroomies will know Clemmie (from Amsterdam) and her penchant for nipping out for late evening goodies.  Last night, Clemmie's mum, Bellfire, joined the site.  Clemmie's health has deteriorated and she is currently in ICU in hospital in London suffering from a serious chest infection, she also has brain metastases and has undergone radiotherapy.

    Please can you all think of or pray…

  • Another good word....

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    Today was results day, it's been 2 and a half weeks since I had another lump removed from my groin.  I didn't realise just how stressed I had been, until I was sat in the waiting room fighting off the all too common signs that a panic attack was about to rear its ugly head, add to that an inappropriately timed hot flush and it's amazing that I actually made it to see my surgeon!

    Anyhow, the lump was just an…