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Wishing you well in your recovery. My prayers will be with you. I have to remember that God only gives me today, and I want to live it to the fullest!

Al in Sunny Florida

Wishing you well in your recovery. My prayers will be with you. I have to remember that God only gives me today, and I want to live it to the fullest!

Al in Sunny Florida

Wishing you well in your recovery. My prayers will be with you. I have to remember that God only gives me today, and I want to live it to the fullest!

Al in Sunny Florida

I wish you well whatever your decision is. I have come to believe that the decisions we make are made with good input from the "experts" tempered by our own judgment. I was diagnosed with melanoma on the left shoulder in July of 2007. I was Stage IIb at that time. I had clean margins and a clean SNB. I was NED until April 2011 when a small tumor developed along the existing scar line; surgery followed  and once again I had clean margins. All scans were negative for the little "buggers." At my eight month check up, I had a PET and Brain MRI with nothing evident; however, the doctor felt a very small nodule, once again along the scar line, and it tested positive for melanoma. The third surgery followed with no clean margins this time; microscopic melanoma cells evident in the tissue. I have moved to Stage III Our decision is to I have the fourth surgery on February 3rd with the hopes of getting clean margins; I will follow this with seven weeks of radiation. I also am investigating beginning Interferon, but the jury is still out.

I am working very closely with my doctors, but I am researching all options and placing questions before them. I believe that we must take charge of the treatment of this disease with input from the "experts." But most importantly, this is my cancer not theirs and I am the one that needs to make the final decision. My prayers and thoughts will be with you and all of the folks posting on this site.

Keep Focused, Pray Daily,

Stay Safe,

             Al in Sunny Florida

I wish you well whatever your decision is. I have come to believe that the decisions we make are made with good input from the "experts" tempered by our own judgment. I was diagnosed with melanoma on the left shoulder in July of 2007. I was Stage IIb at that time. I had clean margins and a clean SNB. I was NED until April 2011 when a small tumor developed along the existing scar line; surgery followed  and once again I had clean margins. All scans were negative for the little "buggers." At my eight month check up, I had a PET and Brain MRI with nothing evident; however, the doctor felt a very small nodule, once again along the scar line, and it tested positive for melanoma. The third surgery followed with no clean margins this time; microscopic melanoma cells evident in the tissue. I have moved to Stage III Our decision is to I have the fourth surgery on February 3rd with the hopes of getting clean margins; I will follow this with seven weeks of radiation. I also am investigating beginning Interferon, but the jury is still out.

I am working very closely with my doctors, but I am researching all options and placing questions before them. I believe that we must take charge of the treatment of this disease with input from the "experts." But most importantly, this is my cancer not theirs and I am the one that needs to make the final decision. My prayers and thoughts will be with you and all of the folks posting on this site.

Keep Focused, Pray Daily,

Stay Safe,

             Al in Sunny Florida

I wish you well whatever your decision is. I have come to believe that the decisions we make are made with good input from the "experts" tempered by our own judgment. I was diagnosed with melanoma on the left shoulder in July of 2007. I was Stage IIb at that time. I had clean margins and a clean SNB. I was NED until April 2011 when a small tumor developed along the existing scar line; surgery followed  and once again I had clean margins. All scans were negative for the little "buggers." At my eight month check up, I had a PET and Brain MRI with nothing evident; however, the doctor felt a very small nodule, once again along the scar line, and it tested positive for melanoma. The third surgery followed with no clean margins this time; microscopic melanoma cells evident in the tissue. I have moved to Stage III Our decision is to I have the fourth surgery on February 3rd with the hopes of getting clean margins; I will follow this with seven weeks of radiation. I also am investigating beginning Interferon, but the jury is still out.

I am working very closely with my doctors, but I am researching all options and placing questions before them. I believe that we must take charge of the treatment of this disease with input from the "experts." But most importantly, this is my cancer not theirs and I am the one that needs to make the final decision. My prayers and thoughts will be with you and all of the folks posting on this site.

Keep Focused, Pray Daily,

Stay Safe,

             Al in Sunny Florida