Melanoma Research Foundation | TheCruiseMermaid | Activity https://forum.melanoma.org/user/thecruisemermaid/activity/ Activity feed for TheCruiseMermaid. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:19:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 74f319692dc58798c5f97afa469898d5 TheCruiseMermaid replied to the topic Please allow me to share my dear father's Melanoma journey :*( in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/please-allow-me-to-share-my-dear-fathers-melanoma-journey/#post-276564 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:32:01 -0400 *Thank you all* for your beautiful words and your beautiful thoughts of encouragement. I miss my dad more than anything words could ever describe. There isn’t a moment of any given day I do not find myself thinking about him – and wanting him back. It is such a struggle to have to “wait” for the day I see him again – I want to see him NOW. I (and…Read more

]]> 6df3505bfa398c3cdb49a446a6fb438a TheCruiseMermaid replied to the topic Questions about Stage 4 treatment options in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/questions-about-stage-4-treatment-options/#post-276505 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:47:02 -0400 HELLO MAX! I am new to these forums, and I just posted a long, long post about my father’s five year journey with Melanoma. (Sadly, we lost him in October of 2021). We – like you – were with the University of Chicago. (We were with Dr. Rampurwala – out of the Orland Park, Illinois facility). I had often thought about reaching out to the guru at…Read more

]]> d29a54f1e5a39154944cef7b8cd471cd TheCruiseMermaid started the topic Please allow me to share my dear father's Melanoma journey :*( in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/please-allow-me-to-share-my-dear-fathers-melanoma-journey/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:20:29 -0400 I have joined this group on behalf and in honor of my father, Ken, who battled Melanoma for 5 years and sadly lost his battle with Stage 4 Metastatic Melanoma in October 2021.

My father’s original diagnosis was from a “mole” on left/side/flank/back that had acted up and was scabby/bleeding in late fall of 2016. *My mother and father vehemently…Read more

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