Putting my two youngest to bed tonight, my 4yr old said, 'I'll be sad when I'm grown up because I won't be able to see you anymore'. 'Why's that?' I said. 'Because I want to be a horse rider'. She seems to be thinking that when you grow up, you are either one thing or another, and not, say a Daughter and a horse rider and a Mum etc! So I explained that I would still see her no matter what she was going to be, I pointed…
My last operation 08/04/10. They used the previous scar from my pelvic clearance in Feb 09, then cut it out and made a new one.
Below is a picture of my skin graft now, nearly 4 years on! It doesn't notice nearly as much as it used to and I feel comfortable not to cover it up as it doesn't stand out since the redness went.
This is a picture I took immediately after my pelvic clearance that I…
My first major surgery was the WLE, SNB and split skin graft. June 2006.
Sentinel Node biopsy from behind my knee. These nodes were negative.
Sentine Node Biopsy, groin. Three of these nodes were positive.
The dressing on my thigh was on the donor site for the skin graft.
Having the taples removed from my split skin graft. June 2006.
I'm fuming I just wrote all this out and then lost it!! AAAARRGGHHH!!!!
Anyway, again!!
Yesterday I went back to see Mr Sharma at St George's. He was one of the two surgeons who operated to remove my last tumour 3 weeks ago. The wound has healed fantastic, I'm so pleased with it its so neat! I'll show it on here when I can work out how to publish photos in this blog.
The lab results confirmed that…
I was diagnosed with melanoma in May 2006, after a 'mole' was removed from my left ankle after giving birth to my 3rd little girl. I was sent to St George's hospital in London to be under the Melanoma team there. A daunting place at first but somewhere I've become comfortably familiar with! I had a sentinel node biopsy (sentinel nodes removed from behind my knee and groin) and a skin graft. The snb was positive in my…
