See you later MELANOMA!!!!

Well here is the remains of where Mr. Bad Ugly Melanoma laid! I was surprised at how much the Dr ended up cutting out, but better safe than sorry. When I took the dressing off 24 hours after it was done, I noticed that he hadn't put any sutures in the one end so I put the steri strips there just in case. Ron said well if I knew he was going to do a neck lift I would have wanted it in the front to take the gobbler away and not the back of my neck. The Dr did end up taking another mole off his back and we go back in 10 days to have it all looked at. Then he will go back in 3 months and if all clears then 6 months, then every year for the rest of his life! Thanks for all your prayers and concerns! We have the best family there is!

Mom's 50!

So this was on Sunday Mom turned the big 50! We all gathered at the Mona park (even Mike made it) and had a BBQ, well the kernel cooked the meat aka KFC. Then some batting practice went down! We had so much fun. The pics in the slide show are from this day. I love family so much and the little ones are growing so fast. My little chubbly wubbbly Miller is sitting up and wanting to crawl!

Good and Bad News!

Yesterday we finally found out what has been growing on Ron's neck. After many phone tags with the Doctors office the results say it is (here is the bad news) Melanoma the really bad scary cancer, but (this is the good news) it is at a stage 0. Melanoma comes in different stages from 0-4. Stage 0-1 is 99.9% cured with wide excisions (which means cutting out a chunk of the bad tissue) and closing it with stitches and then testing the tissue to make sure all the surrounding skin is cancer free. Ron will be having this done on Wednesday. He also will be getting checked all over to make sure nothing else looks silly. When the Doctor called me he said that in the 13 years working in this office he has only see one other spot like Ron's being melanoma he thought for sure it was basal cell cancer because it was not black. It just went to prove to us that we can never be to cautious. I think of how fast the spot changed in just two weeks. What if we had not done anything about it? What could have it done in another 2 weeks, scary! Get checked family and friends, better safe than sorry! Thanks for all your prayers and words of concern for us, we don't know what we would do with out all of you!