Anniversary

Today is the 1st anniversary of my diagnosis.  Has it only been a year?  Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday and others a lifetime ago.  I have to admit that there are very few days when I am not aware that I had melanoma and that I go to an oncologist (I don't even call him that, I usually just call him my surgeon).  It still seems so surreal.  Is this really my life?

So far so good.  I have another checkup at the end of the month, so hopefully nothing is going on in my body.  I haven't noticed any new suspicious lumps or changes in moles, so I'm expecting to get a good report.

There have been a few advances in treatment in advanced melanoma, so I keep looking at the new drugs with the view that if I even need them, knock on wood, they are drugs that seem to be working to fight melanoma.  It is comforting to know that researchers are actively working on finding a cure for this disease.