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Intro to MPIP! New diagnosis S2a
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Intro to MPIP! New diagnosis S2a

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    • March 1, 2016 at 4:21 pm
    Bigdaddy5
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      Sorry. I really don't wish to be here reading all your posts. But I am. I'm really pissed  I appreciate your info – and I figured I should introduce myself and perhaps be able to find the good in all of this.

      Me: I'm a Caucasian male 46 years of age.  About 74 inches and 225 pounds.  Father of 5 with my oldest at 21 and youngest at 12 (three in college this September).  I own a small business with 10 employees.  Been very active past 2 years and got into shape and began using "Loseit" app to record every crumb of food I ate since 5/2014 through today.  I lost forty pounds at my peak weight of 215 last September.  My running progressed in that last year I ran two marathons (very slowly) but I managed to beat Oprah's time on my first try!

      I was diagnosed stage 2a on 2/16 based on t3a biopsy returned from a mole scraped off right front torso.  Had wide excision surgery with sentinel lymph node biopsy on 2/25 where two lymph nodes were removed from right armpit area.  I sit here in my bed reading all your stuff trying to see what path lay ahead for me and my squad.  Not clear at all.  Being treated at Inova Melanoma Center in Fairfax, VA.

      Thanks for letting me introduce myself!

      Neil D

       

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