re: Cancer

Thanks Arkla. Your uncle's story hits close to home... I got extremely lucky and were it not for my mom I wouldn't be here. I had melanoma and as you probably know from your uncle, if it gets to a certain stage it's untreatable and unfortunately it gets to that stage fairly quickly. My mom just happened to spot it on my back when I was changing shirts one day and forced me to go to the doc. I thought she was crazy. I was in college and even the doc didn't think I had anything (I had none of the normal risk factors for it, was wayyy too young for it, plus it didn't even look like a typical melanoma) but the biopsy showed otherwise. Caught it just at the moment it was getting ready to spread past the point of treatment and located near my spine. If my mom hadn't seen it right when she did I'd have been dead - sent straight to hospice instead of able to get treatment.

So many good people lost to a horrible disease - horrible in all of its forms but I do believe we get closer every day to finding a cure. That cure can't get here fast enough though.

I will be hoping and praying for your uncle's health to hold up.