Eczema, It's Not

So last year Keri saw her oncologist for her regular yearly breast cancer check-up (nearly 7 years breast cancer free now!) and showed her oncologist a mole on her arm that had gotten weird. He took a good look at it, asked a few questions, and said it was eczema.

Fast forward a year later and the mole is still being funky and Sophie keeps saying "you have spot?" and "No scratch it." So Keri thought, "Out of the mouths of babes" and maybe she'd go get it checked out.

The dermatologist chopped it off and sent it off to those interesting lab people that actually wanted to get a job looking at sickly bits and pieces of people. Why, is a mystery in itself! But we are thankful for them because it turned out to be malignant melanoma. See, it is good to listen to your wise 2-year-old!

Anyway, met with the surgeon today and he said the depth of it was only .9 mm so that is good news because the deeper it goes the greater chance there is of it spreading. Keri gets to go in and have the doc take a bit more flesh out and then check her lymph nodes.

Luckily, she'll be functional very soon after this surgery, like the next day! Thank you, painkillers! They will be sending bits of Keri to those odd yet nice lab people, again, so as soon as we know more about containment or spread, we'll post more. It will probably be a little while or they may tell us almost right away. Who knows?! That's what makes this so exciting! Anyhow, Neal and Keri remain optimistic but welcome prayers!