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      • November 26, 2018 at 2:12 am
      KarinaJ
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        Hello! My melanoma was found on my left cheek. They removed WLE 1cm around the lesion on October 10th and SLNB on my neck in which they removed 2 lymph nodes (one came back positive so that made me stage 3A) Then on Oct 12th I had a plastic surgery to reconstruct my cheek. It looks like your brother-in-law might need a procedure more or less like mine.

        • December 22, 2018 at 7:38 pm
        KarinaJ
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          Hi IKB quick question, how do your neck tumors feel??? how do you know they are tumors?? I have some swollen tissue and they did an ultrasound but it only showed muscle and nothing else.

          • November 26, 2018 at 2:02 am
          KarinaJ
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            Yes, that's me! "I'm going to die!!!!" and I keep crying frustrated and sad and mad and all those emotions. I guess you are right I need to change my attitude because I honestly don't recognize myself anymore. I was super positive, energetic and I now feels that all of that is down the drain. 

            But you know what? I'm here and I'm ALIVE and I want to keep living for many years to come, so for now I'll just ask God to please have a successful treatment with the least amount of side effects possible! I'll be super positive this coming Friday so the medicine will like me! LOL jk. 

            Thank you so much for your kind words!!!

            • November 26, 2018 at 1:58 am
            KarinaJ
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              Hi Celeste! You are right, not having any options back in the days was much worse. I'm truly blessed to be part of this group (minus the cancer LOL) Thank you so much for your help and kind words. I will read your blog more often to see what else can I ifind.

              One last thing, did you change your diet once you found out about Melanoma? If so is there anything else  I can do to improve my chances on being here for a long time?

              Thank you again!

              • November 5, 2018 at 10:50 pm
              KarinaJ
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                Every time I start freaking out I come back to this message. Everything should be ok, I need to remind myself that being diagnosed with Melanoma is not a death sentence anymore.

                • October 23, 2018 at 3:50 am
                KarinaJ
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                  Thank you for your response! What stage were you diagnosed with?

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