it must be VERY hard having advanced melanoma

Dear People

I was diagnosed with Clarks level II in Jan last year and had it removed. I read your stories here on this bulletin board, people who are very sick and who have been through so much and FEEL for you.

Dear People

I was diagnosed with Clarks level II in Jan last year and had it removed. I read your stories here on this bulletin board, people who are very sick and who have been through so much and FEEL for you.

While i am now at a stage where i want to make sure no other moles occur and i stay on top of that, i read allyour posts and feel so sorry for what some of you are going through and all the tests you are having and i dont really understand alot of the language/ METS? all these words i am unfamiliar with, and FRANKLY NEVER want to BECOME familiar with.

So i am sending you support and think you are all very strong surviving people to be going through what you are dealing with . My father was diagnosed with melanoma three years ago… It came back and unfortunately i watched him pass away april two thousand and ten, as it had reappeared in his spine.. (he never told us that he was a stage four when he had his final removal of melanoma) surely he must have known stage four is not good. But he never told any of us…It was a shock for us to be told he had not long to live.  He did the best he could and just ENJOYED LIFE and everything good in it… He really knew how to enjoy himself and he did that completely in fine style right up until the end. .

When he passed away he was still mentally alert and on the ball, unfortunately his body was just giving way… He is at peace now and he went the way he would have wanted to go. Overnight and with a soothing injection  id say of morphine, to ease him into his journey to the other side.

I appreciate reading your posts and it helps me to know what he was going through and to feel closer to what he suffered,he never really  complained, even up until the very end, when he was suffereing….I   also  ADMIRE all of you who have such a love of life and who are true survivors. I wish there was a cure for this terrible disease so everyone did not have to suffer so much. It must be very nerve wracking not knowing when these melanomas could appear again, and /or where? in the body… I realise ill have to deal with this issue now for the rest of my life and it is a very sobering experience indeed

I thank my dad, for me finding this early on in my body, as if it was not for him i never would have got checked. Thanks Dad xx

I wish all of you lots of love and luck.

Take care,

Felicity