April 2005 - Visit dermatologist and request biopsy of funny spot on my arm that's been there a while. It's skin colored and looks like a bug bit that never healed. Assured it's prob. just a white blood cell cyst.
A week later I get the call. it's inconclusive but we think you may have Melanoma. Hm. How can you be unsure whether or not I have the most deadly form of skin cancer? And you just want to cut it out? Yeah, that's not good enough.
After 3 of the longest days of my life, 200 phone calls and lots of pushing the Melanoma clinic at the U of M Cancer Center will review my slides and do their own pathology.
48 hours they call back. Can you come in tomorrow? I have Melanoma.
......this is a long story and it's going to take a while to get all in here....
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