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Fantastic news, congrats!

Fantastic news, congrats!

Fantastic news, congrats!

Bill, I am so sorry for your loss and my heart breaks for you. I will pray for peace for

your soul and wish you strength to get through the days and nights ahead. 30 Years

together is amazing and I am sure your presence gave her much comfort. All the best,

Vicki, wife of 25 years to Randall stage 4 patient.

Bill, I am so sorry for your loss and my heart breaks for you. I will pray for peace for

your soul and wish you strength to get through the days and nights ahead. 30 Years

together is amazing and I am sure your presence gave her much comfort. All the best,

Vicki, wife of 25 years to Randall stage 4 patient.

Bill, I am so sorry for your loss and my heart breaks for you. I will pray for peace for

your soul and wish you strength to get through the days and nights ahead. 30 Years

together is amazing and I am sure your presence gave her much comfort. All the best,

Vicki, wife of 25 years to Randall stage 4 patient.

POW is a wonderful and compassionate person who obviously loved his brother very much and he has kindly offered intelligent, well researched and helpful comments and support to the us caregivers who go through their own special type of hell dealing with loved one's melanomas. I guess you have to be "Anonymous" to insult someone unnecessarily. POW please understand that the vast majority of posters appreciate your info and support and I have no doubt that you can live your life and still be involved here in memory of your brother. Thanks for all you do and dont pay attention to those ridiculous comments. Vicki, loving wife to Randall, Stage 4

My husband was approved for disability which starts six month after "disability date"and will get his first check Oct. 9, but we were told he cant get medicare until two years on disability. He is still on employer plan, stringing them along like he might come back and they have kindly kept him on. we figured cobra when they finally cut him off but that will be super expensive. how did you get coverage so quickly? Thanks.

Absolutely, all of the above. In addition, my husband had a mole removed 12 years ago. The marginswere clean, lymph nodes clear. He did a year of interferon, which at stage 2 not most poeple choose. He went to dermatologist quarterly, then twice a year, then aftet 4 yrs they told hime once a year was sufficient. He still went twice a year to the derm. He had a chest x ray with his normal physical in July of 2012. In Nov-Dec he was coughing,and a couple of months were wasted with cold and sinus treatment, then when it didnt stop finally in January another chest xray revelead lung spots, biopsied positive for melanoma, soon found it was in lungs, liver, brain, subqs. No other symptoms! and I had people say to my face, how could he let this happen when he had a history? Some people are just ignorant or paranoid or want to live under the illusion that we have control over everything. It bothered me at first, but i soon other things were much more important and I dont a hoot what others think, that is their problem.  But yes, I agree tht melanoma definitely is stigmatized in this way. Vicki, Randall's wife

Absolutely, all of the above. In addition, my husband had a mole removed 12 years ago. The marginswere clean, lymph nodes clear. He did a year of interferon, which at stage 2 not most poeple choose. He went to dermatologist quarterly, then twice a year, then aftet 4 yrs they told hime once a year was sufficient. He still went twice a year to the derm. He had a chest x ray with his normal physical in July of 2012. In Nov-Dec he was coughing,and a couple of months were wasted with cold and sinus treatment, then when it didnt stop finally in January another chest xray revelead lung spots, biopsied positive for melanoma, soon found it was in lungs, liver, brain, subqs. No other symptoms! and I had people say to my face, how could he let this happen when he had a history? Some people are just ignorant or paranoid or want to live under the illusion that we have control over everything. It bothered me at first, but i soon other things were much more important and I dont a hoot what others think, that is their problem.  But yes, I agree tht melanoma definitely is stigmatized in this way. Vicki, Randall's wife

Absolutely, all of the above. In addition, my husband had a mole removed 12 years ago. The marginswere clean, lymph nodes clear. He did a year of interferon, which at stage 2 not most poeple choose. He went to dermatologist quarterly, then twice a year, then aftet 4 yrs they told hime once a year was sufficient. He still went twice a year to the derm. He had a chest x ray with his normal physical in July of 2012. In Nov-Dec he was coughing,and a couple of months were wasted with cold and sinus treatment, then when it didnt stop finally in January another chest xray revelead lung spots, biopsied positive for melanoma, soon found it was in lungs, liver, brain, subqs. No other symptoms! and I had people say to my face, how could he let this happen when he had a history? Some people are just ignorant or paranoid or want to live under the illusion that we have control over everything. It bothered me at first, but i soon other things were much more important and I dont a hoot what others think, that is their problem.  But yes, I agree tht melanoma definitely is stigmatized in this way. Vicki, Randall's wife

POW is a wonderful and compassionate person who obviously loved his brother very much and he has kindly offered intelligent, well researched and helpful comments and support to the us caregivers who go through their own special type of hell dealing with loved one's melanomas. I guess you have to be "Anonymous" to insult someone unnecessarily. POW please understand that the vast majority of posters appreciate your info and support and I have no doubt that you can live your life and still be involved here in memory of your brother. Thanks for all you do and dont pay attention to those ridiculous comments. Vicki, loving wife to Randall, Stage 4

POW is a wonderful and compassionate person who obviously loved his brother very much and he has kindly offered intelligent, well researched and helpful comments and support to the us caregivers who go through their own special type of hell dealing with loved one's melanomas. I guess you have to be "Anonymous" to insult someone unnecessarily. POW please understand that the vast majority of posters appreciate your info and support and I have no doubt that you can live your life and still be involved here in memory of your brother. Thanks for all you do and dont pay attention to those ridiculous comments. Vicki, loving wife to Randall, Stage 4

My husband was approved for disability which starts six month after "disability date"and will get his first check Oct. 9, but we were told he cant get medicare until two years on disability. He is still on employer plan, stringing them along like he might come back and they have kindly kept him on. we figured cobra when they finally cut him off but that will be super expensive. how did you get coverage so quickly? Thanks.

My husband was approved for disability which starts six month after "disability date"and will get his first check Oct. 9, but we were told he cant get medicare until two years on disability. He is still on employer plan, stringing them along like he might come back and they have kindly kept him on. we figured cobra when they finally cut him off but that will be super expensive. how did you get coverage so quickly? Thanks.