Hello Elaine

You and I are in about the same place in regards to diagnosis and time since diagnosis, although you've been at it a bit longer. Here's my approach for the first time in my life I am paying very serious attention to learning ways to manage those parts of my personality that feed stress, because stress dampens your immune system and we need our immune systems. If it makes you feel better to see a physician to check a spot or assess a pain then by all means do so. Personally the less time I spend as a patient the happier I am, and I have a great medical team, so for me fewer visits is less stress, but that might change. 

wishing you stress free holiday season

Genie

Hello Elaine

You and I are in about the same place in regards to diagnosis and time since diagnosis, although you've been at it a bit longer. Here's my approach for the first time in my life I am paying very serious attention to learning ways to manage those parts of my personality that feed stress, because stress dampens your immune system and we need our immune systems. If it makes you feel better to see a physician to check a spot or assess a pain then by all means do so. Personally the less time I spend as a patient the happier I am, and I have a great medical team, so for me fewer visits is less stress, but that might change. 

wishing you stress free holiday season

Genie

Hello Elaine

You and I are in about the same place in regards to diagnosis and time since diagnosis, although you've been at it a bit longer. Here's my approach for the first time in my life I am paying very serious attention to learning ways to manage those parts of my personality that feed stress, because stress dampens your immune system and we need our immune systems. If it makes you feel better to see a physician to check a spot or assess a pain then by all means do so. Personally the less time I spend as a patient the happier I am, and I have a great medical team, so for me fewer visits is less stress, but that might change. 

wishing you stress free holiday season

Genie

Sorry to hear about your path report. Your derm is correct it is not possible to know that passed on the shave, but that said your GP was passing her assessment based on statistics. See the surgeon, preferably one with melanoma experience and go from there as to your next steps. Let us know how things turn out and what the surgeon recommends.

good luck

Sorry to hear about your path report. Your derm is correct it is not possible to know that passed on the shave, but that said your GP was passing her assessment based on statistics. See the surgeon, preferably one with melanoma experience and go from there as to your next steps. Let us know how things turn out and what the surgeon recommends.

good luck

Sorry to hear about your path report. Your derm is correct it is not possible to know that passed on the shave, but that said your GP was passing her assessment based on statistics. See the surgeon, preferably one with melanoma experience and go from there as to your next steps. Let us know how things turn out and what the surgeon recommends.

good luck

Pre-op will be all the usual for anyone undergoing anesthesia. Weight , height, history, respiratory check etc. sometimes blood depending on history and lest date of tests. Should be too bad.

Pre-op will be all the usual for anyone undergoing anesthesia. Weight , height, history, respiratory check etc. sometimes blood depending on history and lest date of tests. Should be too bad.

Pre-op will be all the usual for anyone undergoing anesthesia. Weight , height, history, respiratory check etc. sometimes blood depending on history and lest date of tests. Should be too bad.

Brian 

You are thinking about the MSLT I study results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 

the N Engl J Med 2014 Feb 13; 370:599-609

the preliminary data for the MSLT II study, which just stopped enrolling patients in April so there isn't much in the way of data yet. 

Brian 

You are thinking about the MSLT I study results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 

the N Engl J Med 2014 Feb 13; 370:599-609

the preliminary data for the MSLT II study, which just stopped enrolling patients in April so there isn't much in the way of data yet. 

Brian 

You are thinking about the MSLT I study results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine 

the N Engl J Med 2014 Feb 13; 370:599-609

the preliminary data for the MSLT II study, which just stopped enrolling patients in April so there isn't much in the way of data yet.