Good consult, long road ahead

I met with a dermatologist  yesterday at Dana Farber in Boston and reviewed my pathologies and surgeries. He reassured me that there is no need for an oncologist at this time. He said that as I've caught the melanoma early, and had it removed surgically, it is unlikely that it will spread to organs. His recommendation is that I continue to see the dermatologist and surgeon regularly to keep up with what may be recurring sites. He noted that the surgeries I've had are healing well.

He basically said that if I stay with the three month schedule of derm visits and surgeries as needed, each melanoma will be caught early enough to be excised completely, as has been done so far. To me, the schedule is daunting, as I am going this Friday to have the last of the first five sites' sutures removed. It is just three months from the beginning of the eight surgeries that these sites took. I will stick with it as long as I can. I wish I could share the doctors' sense of success with each surgery. This is better news than might have been. I'm not ungrateful, just overwhelmed.