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I'm praying for you, but besides praying, your post has triggered the following: 1) cried a little, I'm your age, with kids, wife had Thyroid cancer, close to
by eranation 13y ago
I'm praying for you, but besides praying, your post has triggered the following:
1) cried a little, I'm your age, with kids, wife had Thyroid cancer, close to home
2) donated to your fund, hope many more will
3) read about Melanoma, was shocked how much I didn't know
4) made an appointment with a dermatologist, I'm in the risk group apparently
5) emailed my insurance company to increase my coverage
My thoughts and prayers are with you
- clusterfoo 13y ago> 3) read about Melanoma, was shocked how much I didn't know. Yeah it's weird how little people know about something so prevalent. People are shocked to find how many different types and sub-types of cancer are out there and how different the prognoses vary from one to the other. I just got the diagnosis a month or so ago (26 y/o, a year after my dad dies of lymphoma... epic wtf's all around). First response is "Oh, well at least it's only skin cancer. They just cut it out and you're good." -- heh... NOPE. Also, I was walking around with it and a lump in my neck for months because Dr. said it was only a birthmark, probably just scarred node, etc. Until I pushed for a dermatologist. tl;dr: Get checked. Be paranoid. Don't take "you're young, it's nothing" for an answer. Demand a biopsy.
- eranation 13y agoI hope you recover quickly and that everything will be fine! My condolences on the loss of your father. I'm always paranoid, this is why I used to avoid being checked :)