Back for scans in preparation for clinical trial

So on Friday I will go back to Huntsman and have another MRI scan in preparation for the clinical trial. The clinical trial will start, if everything gets approved, on the following Wednesday. It will be nice to start treatment, even if it is the placebo.

My face is healing pretty well. I went back to the doctor because I had two lumps in my cheek. The one lump was full of fluid and the other was full of blood. They are going to test the blood just to make sure.

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When People Think You Are Dying

I received an interesting email from a friend this week. It said he had heard I had relapsed and he wanted to get together and go to lunch. I was really appreciative of the invitation but started to wonder why he thought I had relapsed. I spoke with this friend who told me that he heard through someone else that I was "terminal" and that I only had a few months to live. He also told me that this message had been received by many in an announcement made at a meeting. I was a little shocked! First that someone heard I was dying and second that I mattered enough to have it announced! I assured my friend that I was doing just fine and that I was not "dying". I told him that I had no new re-occurrence of melanoma and that my treatments were going just fine. This made me start to think about life in general and how we communicate! In regards to communication, I learned how this information was obtained. It was taken out of con...

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My Life's Journey with Melanoma

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