Worried Wife - Husband Refusing SLN Biopsy

Hi KTatHome.

Thank you so much for taking the time to send this. It is very useful at spelling out the pros and cons.

Thanks again.

Hi Mastay, I’m glad the links were useful. I’ve just reread your original post and you mention that there were many questions you would have liked to have asked. At my hospital questions are not confined to the 10 mins or so that often the appointments take. I wonder if it’s worth checking if your husband has been given the number of a specialist nurse, I have one that you can contact with additional questions or new info that you think they should know before the next appointment. It may be worth drawing up a list of questions together and giving them a call. 

I always take a note book into my appointments or have it handy for telephone ones as it’s s easy to forget things with the anxiety or time pressures. My husband likes to record the appointments on his phone and has questions or details he wants put on my list. 

I haven’t had a SLNB as I had no primary found, so I can’t help with my experience but I hoped the links would help you talk together to see each other’s points of view. 

Hi Mastay, how is your husband getting on now two years on? I had a 1.0mm deep melanoma removed earlier this year. I was unable to have the SLNB but I have had the WLE, just waiting on the results.