hey guys,
this is my first post but i felt like i needed to do this not only to get my feelings out but to raise awareness for melanoma (the most serious type of skin cancer.) I know what you are all probobly thinking when I say skin cancer. That its nothing, everybody gets it, its not really that harmful, and that really who cares about it. But let me tell you right now that you are wrong. I thought the same thing too until i was in 7th grade. My doctor told me that I had severely malignant Melanoma. Pretty much a way of saying that I had a highly cancerous melanoma on my shoulder. In other words, I was in 7th grade and found out that I had cancer. It sucks. Let me tell you that right now. No 7th grader wants to find out that they have cancer and it was hard at first. And so for everybody out there I would just like to warn you about Skin cancer, mainly melanoma. I have to go right now but I will post more later about my journey through surgeries and recovery. I hope everybody who reads this learns something and will maybe even spread the awareness. Thanx guys
i’ll post more later today
bye!
I would love to hear more of your story and what happened! I think it would help up more to understand your situation. I noticed you said your recovery which is really good!
hey i’m back. I have to leave again soon but I just wanted to give a little backround information about myself just so you realize how even normal, healthy kids and adults can get this illness. I was always a dancer, between irish dance, hiphop, and ballroom. I also played flute all of the time. I enjoyed my life, I was close with my family and had some really good close friends. I went through elementary school with good grades (most people have good grades in elementary school though. I had a pretty good social life, not outstanding but i liked it just the same. I was far from popular but i think being popular is overrated. I had my close, true friends that I told practically everything to. I went through 6th grade in a new school which was kind of nervwrecking and exciting. I continued to get pretty good grades and still stayed close with my friends. Nothing exciting really happened in 6th grade, i still hadn’t gotten my first bf or my first kiss. I was a pretty average kid. 7th grade came and everything pretty much stayed the same. Until, of course, we got about half way through the year. That’s when I found out about my cancer.