If the liver does not kill you something else will!

[Iro1]

Coming up to the 4th anniversary of my spectacular attempt to kill myself because I thought I was dying of cirhossis. Unhelpfully I had a mole removed about 5 weeks ago, on Friday the hospital phoned to make an appointment with the so knew it was bad news. They saw me on the same day, I have a stage 1 melonoma now thankfully removed. Feels like I am constantly avoiding sniper bullets!

[h0b0]

Keep avoiding !

[Iro1 in reply to h0b0]

Without modern medicine I would be already dead many times over.

[pushthrough]

I’m so glad they caught it early Iro! I just had some moles removed (4) and thankfully they had not reached the cancer stage!

G.

[Iro1]

Mine was a melanoma so technically is cancer, it is a type called superficial spreading melanoma so go outwards across the skin at first rather than down, it had only penetrated .6mm so no where near the lymph glands. Started as a small black spot then grew, my wife and I thought we were wasting NHS time but thankfully the GP took no chances and it was removed on the same day that I went for the initial consultation. 98.4 % of people with my stage 1a last 5 years or more. Got to to go back and have some more surrounding skin removed. They have checked my whole body nothing else. They monitor me for a year, cover up and factor 50 from now on! Love the outdoors, sailing but got to take care.

[Iro1]

I also have a number of cherry angiomas or red moles. When I was ill Dr Googling I read these could be linked to liver issues. My wife has a lot of them which I think is linked to hormones in pregnancy. Mine could be linked to hormones because I suffer from hypogonadism and I am on T replacement. Honestly I use to check my palms for redness, my feet for signs of liver disease, my pooh, my urine. Worrrying about liver disease is a full time job!

At some point you have to get on with your life.

[C1JAM]

Keeping you on your toes.

[Iro1]

Funny thing just googled cherry angiomas no mention of liver at all when I was ill mentally I googled it and found every link had a connection to liver.My brain or google?