Hi I’m a bit new to all of this and not really sure what to say but I was diagnosed with a melanoma (stage 3b) on the top of my head last year. I had it removed along with lymph nodes on both sides of my head. I’ve been having immunotherapy for the last 12 months which has gone well and my 3 month scans have all showed no signs of it spreading. But I’m scared about coming off the tablets in September and I’m also struggling to come to terms with everything that has happened over the last year. I’m 52 with two grown up children but they still need their mum, big kids big problems! Does anyone else relate and have any advice to help me cope with the future? Has it gone or should I be worried it’s going to come back.
Hi Moondust welcome to the forum. My type of Cancer was a different type to yours but all that you are saying about worrying about it coming back I can relate to that. I think it something we all do and we worry after all the people who have been in our lives for such a long time go and we are left on our own, what do we do. I wonder if you felt able to look up and print off a paper by a Psychologist called Dr Peter Harvey and is entitled "After the treatment finishes": "What next". He describes what happens for us when everyone goes and treatment ends. I feel sure that you will recognise yourself in it.
gail
