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	Malignant Melanoma A Personal Story Part 2 by Rebecca Brents
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Papashag writes:

Bec, you can use anything I wrote in this email with my blessing. I got a little wordy on a few things so you can take editorial liberty on what you want to use.

Check out the web site I added below, it is very informational. I have read Dan's Story several times and it really hits home. If I would have only known - Hey what a subtitle for the page: "IF I WOULD HAVE ONLY KNOWN - MELANOMA INFORMATION AND A GUIDE TO SELF EXAMINATION."

Rebecca Brents wrote:

Patrick, love, I would like to put up a page on the site with this that you sent a while back ... and in order to give credit to you as a cancer survivor ... how exactly would you like us to refer to your condition now ... what would you be comfortable being called? (I know this isn't good English ... but I'm not coming up with anything more elegant at the moment.)

Are you "in remission?" Are you considered "cured?"

Papashag writes:

I am indeed in remission.

I will never be cured. There is always a chance that the Melanoma will come back in the lungs, liver, bone marrow or brain tissue. I will need a periodic CT scan and annual visual dermatology exam. I am now doing the monthly skin test and if I find anything unusual I bring it to my Doctors attention. So far I have 23 atypical(non cancerous) moles and "freckles" that could change at any time. I have an 80% chance that this bout is over. However I have a 33% chance that at some time in my life 2, 5, 15 years from now I will have Melanoma again, in the same area or in a different area.

I cannot dwell on this fact or I just might as well lay down and die right now. Well, I am not ready to cross over to see what is on the other side, just yet. I am scared all the time about the CA coming back but that cannot be the focus of my life. If the CA comes back I will deal with it at that time.

My father was in remission for 7 years before his cancer reappeared. But he refused to go for his annual 5000, 10000, and 15000 mile checkups. He might still be alive today if he had stayed under doctor's care. I plan on being around for a long time.

Are you considered indeed a "cancer survivor" at this point?

I am not comfortable with the term cancer survivor, just yet. I consider myself "in remission, recovering from a long bout of therapy and treatment."

Is it correct to call your former condition "malignant melanoma?"

Yes it was Malignant melanoma

Is there anything you would like us to include ... about you, about prevention, about treatment, anything? Are you ok with us doing this in the first place?

Melanoma is a disease that, on the skin surface, can easily be detected. If people just follow a few simple rules and do a monthly body scan corrective action can be taken before it gets as far as mine. If caught in time the treatment can be minimal. Here is a web page that I found that people can read up on Melanoma. About half way down the page are a series of small downloadable pages. Just click on the tiny pages, on the left hand side and they will expand. Very good info.

http://skincheck.com/mef_page_3.htm

I think this is an important chance for us to "spread the word" about this matter, and the hope you offer through the trial of your experience to others who could profit from your wisdom.

Rebecca

Thank you for all your prayers and support. You don't know how email is keeping me afloat on some of the bad days. It is great to hear from Good Friends, even Bad Friends suit the bill. Blessings of the Goddess to you and yours.

Patrick

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 11:51:30 -0800 (PST) Patrick Shaginaw wrote:

Well after 172 injections of Interferon, I am finished with my treatment. It will take 4 to 8 weeks for the drugs to get out of my system. I have taken more Compozine for nausea since I stopped the treatment then I have in the past 2 months of the treatments. I guess my body is going thru a type of therapy withdrawal. Went to a party at church last night, and stayed out until 11 pm. I remember a time not to long ago that I would just be going out at 11 PM. Now I am in bed by 9 because I am still so exhausted.

This is something that I got off of one of the cancer caring websites that I frequent. It can say things that I don't know how to put into words:

What Cancer Survivors Need:

a.. When we are terrified - tell us you're there.
b.. When we cry - accept it.
c.. When we cannot focus on the conversation - fill in for us.
d.. When we awaken scared - hold us.
e.. When we tell our story for the millionth time - remember it's real.
f.. When nightmares keep us awake - be patient.
g.. When we go for our 6,000, 12,000 or 24,000 mile checkup - be there.
h.. When our treatment is over - remember this does not end for us.
i.. When we don't know who we are - tell us we are somebody.
j.. When we are optimistic - help us appreciate the day.

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Blessings of whatever you believe in, always.

Patrick

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Rebecca Brents writes on a wide variety of spiritual and occult subjects, including astrology, tarot, metaphysics, and self-improvement. She publishes the extensive online new age Ezine, The Enchanted Sprite on her website: Enchanted Spirit. Rebecca is also available for personal astrology and tarot readings and consultations.

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