Thank you all for your comments!!! I went to my tiebreaker today – Dr Richards at Lutheran General. He completely sided with NW (Dr Wayne) and totally trusted Dr Garami's (dermapath) diagnosis of Atypical Spitz Tumor.
He said the 2 factors that made him suspect my slides were read wrong in the first place was that my mole was only 1.3 mm and it spread and that the SNL had microscopic cells found in them. So at this point there is no treatment of any kind – just follow up with the ultrasound and derm appts every 4mos.
I was all set to get my lymph nodes out and go thru life with the worry of having Melanoma and possible reoccurrence. I have such mixed emotions – What if I never got the second opinion? How many other people has this happened to? I hope this is not a mistake. My heart also aches for the people that do have melanoma, since I was on the other side of this. I feel cautiously optimistic and humbled.
God bless you all and thank you for your support on this journe. I wish you all the blessing of good news and clean scans.
XOXO
