Hi All,
Hope you are ok.
I was diagnosed with skin cancer just a couple of months ago, obviously this has changed my life just a tad.
I have been blogging the ongoing process on my own website since that day fateful day with pictures and thoughts etc.
If anyone has skin cancer and would like to see how it is affecting me, how I am coping and how the treatment is progressing then feel free to visit me on my website! I don't know if it will help you but I do know that writing up the events has helped me immensely.
http://web.mac.com/petebursnall
Click on the outdoor adventure blog and have a read. I am in for a skin graft on Tuesday next week and will be writing more when I get back from that.
Best of luck to you all.
Cheers
Pete
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Hi Pete
As another melanoma sufferer, I was most interested in your blog and loved the photos of Wales! I could take or leave the ones of your mole pre and post op though! Never took photos of mine.. and since it was on my lower back (buttock) the world has been let off lightly!! My orignal melanoma left a scar of about 4" but I did have an over enthusiastic aussie surgeon who completely excised it - or so was thought. It came back though some 9 years later, so I then had the wide excision that you're going for. The resulting scar goes from the centre of my back to my hip, luckily I had no need of a skin graft - first time in my life I've been pleased to be carrying a little extra padding! My story doesn't end there though, but I hope yours will and wish you every success with the operation!
Your pictures of Bodnant Gardens reminded me I should get out more and visit the lovely landscape that I can see from across the Dee and get my moneys worth out of my National Trust membership!!
ut I thought I'd have a look at your website. Started with the old pics of people in climbing breeks and felt like looking back into my own childhood! (Memories of the tent pole snapping in the middle of a stormy night up a Welsh mountain!) Yes, as Marsha says, the pics post-op are a bit in-your-face, but it's all in the way of documentary-photography. I've done a bit of that myself, but have spared most of the world as mine, pretty close to Marsha's, is in places not usually revealed in public. I really loved the rest of your blog, with your fantastic "opportunist" outdoor life. Thank you for sharing this with us. I wish you all the very best for your skin graft next Tueday. xxx Penny
Just found your blog as i was checking round the site, like yourself I was diagnosed with skin cancer or rather malignant melanoma to give the little rotter its proper title. Mine was caught early 0.05mm but still doesnt half stop you in your tracks, checked out your site and hey we r like so similiar , mine on my arm as well , left one 15 stitch wound which i had done end of july, healing well. However being a somewhat moley person it has made me so nervous in the sun thank God we r coming into cooler weather. keep in touch i am due my next checkup december had one end of aug everything a ok .
