When I got back home on Sunday this week, there was a letter from the hospital giving me a day surgery appointment for Thursday. I'm glad it is moving so quickly but quite worried about how I will feel after the operation and how long it will take to heal enough to be able to sit or walk easily.
I'm assuming the histopathology results will take a couple of weeks to come back, then I will have another appointment…
Today feels distinctly better. I managed to talk to MP yesterday about the imminent surgery and generally and about what is almost certain to happen and how distressed I feel about it.
Catharsis! (The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions). He was really supportive and let me know he loves me and will be there for me whatever happens.
+ A couple of people contacted me…
January 9th. I saw a Plastic Surgeon who looked up the CTscan notes and was able to tell me the scan had found nothing else. That was a huge relief although I was aware of being jittery during the whole interview.
He said the biopsy showed a depth of 0.8cm which identifies the melanoma as Stage 1, but after examination that he thought it might be thicker than that.
I am to have surgery within the next two weeks to…
I've created this timeline retrospectively; I wish I had known more and done more about getting it checked a LOT earlier.
It was probably about 2009 I noticed a weird black squiggle thing just under the skin on my labia, about the same time my partner asked me how I managed to get bruised 'there'. Checking every now and then it seemed like there was a dark patch, but looking in the mirror while using clippers…
