Hey there! Just wanted to post my great results so that people who are newly diagnosed can know that they too can have some great news to look forward to! 🙂
I had a suspicious mole removed from my left inner knee back on May 13th. My dermatologist called me on May 19th and said I had malignant melanoma and had to see a surgical oncologist due to the path report.
I had my appt with the surgical oncologist on May 21st and was scheduled for a Wide Local Exicision with Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for June 19th.
I had my surgery on June 19th and had a fairly large chunk taken out of my left inner leg by my knee, and had 1 lymph node removed during surgery from my left groin. I have about a 3 1/2 inch incision on my leg and a 2 inch incision on my groin.
I was very anxious for the test results because I had a 1.2 Breslow, ulcerated, high mitotic activility path report from the originial biopsy that was taken on May 13th.
I had my post-op appt with my surgical oncologist on June 25th and was very very very pleased to hear that there was NO lymph node involvement!!! wahoooo praise the Lord!! The surgical oncologist did say that there was some residual tumor left over from my original biopsy which is why they had to take so much tissue out, and that I was upgraded to a Stage T2b, but most importantly, I am an N0!! 🙂
I do need to do physical therapy due to loss of strength and sensation in my left leg, but none of that matters when you hear you are now NED (no evidence of disease)!!! 🙂
So prayers work my friends, and I will be more than happy to pray for all of you!
Lots of love and hope to yinz all!!
xoxo- Lisa
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