Dear 65GS.com community,
Alas, I am continuing to have health misfortunes. In mid-April, I was diagnosed with a hernia. It was not too serious, so I couldn't get an appointment with the surgeon until mid-May. However before I could schedule that surgery, a routine skin check turned up a melanoma tumor on my left ear. A melanoma had been removed from that ear in 2021, so the concern is that the melanoma had come back and may have spread. That triggered a more aggressive response. I was sent to an oncologist and surgeon of the head and neck. He will remove the new tumor on my ear, but he will also do what is called a nodal biopsy. To do this, they will inject a radioactive tracer in the area of the tumor the day before. That tracer will be carried to lymph node in my neck where any cancer would have spread. The surgeon will remove that node identified by the tracer and have it checked for melanoma. If there isn't any cancer in the lymph node, hopefully they will have solved the problem. If there is, then more cancer treatments will be necessary.
The surgery is this Friday the 16th, so I would appreciate if folks could keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
Thanks for your support,
Edouard
P.S. Somehow the hernia will have to be repaired sometime after that.
