I’m a soon to be 39 year old single mother to a remarkable 9 year old lad, Phoenix. I have raised him purely by myself (albeit with the incredible support of my dear mother, father and sister.
In 2012, almost a year after a Stage 1 melanoma was removed from my back, I detected a lump about the size of a golf ball under my right armpit.
It was an emotional and confronting time to be diagnosed with a high risk melanoma after being told the lesion was a BCC for 18 months prior.
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