I have decided to write this blog as I find this journey a lonely one. Most people don't want to talk about it or hear about it. I think maybe this helps my love ones handle it but there is so much waiting involved I'm finding it lonely . I hope to find others maybe going through the same thing to talk to.
It started when i noticed a growth on my stomach so booked in to see my Gp. She said it was more than likely a wart and need it shaved off . It was nothing 'sinister' so off I went fine . I put it to the back of my mind. Then three months later I received an appointment to have it removed. Hassle free they shaved it off and I was able to enjoy Christmas.
Then In the new year I got a letter to see a doctor to get the results all the normal process I thought well I suppose everything must get tested. Sat in the doctors on my own thinking about how I could go shopping straight after. Then I must say I was shocked the doctor said it wasn't expected as it was colourless hence the term a-malignant melanoma and if they had any idea it would have been that it would have originally been removed sooner and with a different procedure.
From this point on I was asigned a consultant at the hospital. Four weeks later I had a large deep area removed around the original melanoma site. Also a ct scan and lymph node biopsy.
Then after a lot of waiting I have been informed that unfortunately it has spread to the lymph nodes in my left side armpit breast area .
I'm to go in to have all these lymph nodes removed on Fri 13th may and I'm petrified.
