My Malignant Melanoma

Six years post diagnosis, London have discharged me from formal follow-up (though I'm going to go and see them once a year for an appointment to keep me in the system- I've dropped out of the system before, and know how hard it is to get back in) - so this is the "all clear".

Getting melanoma has changed my life, given me an acute awareness of my own mortality, and what is important to me. I have a new career, new hobbies, new friends, and in a way a new family. Many of my original family weren't up to the challenge of helping - I haven't seen my sisters since I was diagnosed. They "don't do cancer". Nice to have that option.

I have done cancer, and it has changed me, mostly for the better. Not that I'm a saint now, I was starting from a low baseline. LOL.