dailyfooddiaryuser's Journal

My Melanoma was malignant...talk about scary. My little sister had just died of cancer at the time of diagnosis.

It was a spot on my shin area that DID NOT LOOK like any of the HUNDREDS of photos I saw on line of skin cancer. I had asked my Dermatologist about it three times over about a year and a half...he always said, "oh, its nothing" and then on the fourth trip to see him for something else, he glanced at it and then whipped out his monacle to look closer and said, "Can you come in tomorrow? That has to come out!"

Can  you believe that?????

He took a hunk out of my leg, and by the next week I was back in there because he did not cut deep enough. This time it was about the size of a half of a golf ball...took about a year to heal too. Turned out I was allergic to Bacitracin which didn't help! I had to go to another Doctor because he also did not think it was infected.

NO tanning beds, sunning with no lotion or worse with oil...bake and burn not the way to go...let me tell you that it can also be on your scalp, so have someone check your scalp as well.

I am ok now, watching a couple of spots though.