mothermac
07-02-10, 18:34
Posted on here the other day about my toe and the possibility that the black mark on my toenail is Melanoma.The specialist has booked me in for the nail removal tomorrow afternoon at 2.30pm and I am absolutely petrified.I feel sick when I think about it but my husband is trying to keep me calm and relaxed by saying"it will be over in about half an hour and then we can come home".
I am nervous about the pain I will feel but more so about the actual results,I am really frightened that it is Melanoma.I didn't even know that you can get this on the toenail and went on the internet and found out that it actually killed Bob Marley,I was horrified.The specialist praised my doctor saying that most people would ignore it and 12 months down the line pop along to the docs and get referred then which sometimes is way too late,and my gp was great in that she referred me at this stage.I know that it's good I am getting some treatment but I wish sometimes I would have waited and seen if it would have grown out and treated it as a bruise.Some of my work colleagues said that they wouldn't have got it checked and would have just carried on as normal and referred to it as the bruise on my foot,they have made me feel like a hyperchondriac and someone who is always looking up symptoms on the google site(which I am-lol) please tell me I will be ok and I can handle this as I don't think I will feel ok in the morning knowing I will have to do this on the afternoon.
I am nervous about the pain I will feel but more so about the actual results,I am really frightened that it is Melanoma.I didn't even know that you can get this on the toenail and went on the internet and found out that it actually killed Bob Marley,I was horrified.The specialist praised my doctor saying that most people would ignore it and 12 months down the line pop along to the docs and get referred then which sometimes is way too late,and my gp was great in that she referred me at this stage.I know that it's good I am getting some treatment but I wish sometimes I would have waited and seen if it would have grown out and treated it as a bruise.Some of my work colleagues said that they wouldn't have got it checked and would have just carried on as normal and referred to it as the bruise on my foot,they have made me feel like a hyperchondriac and someone who is always looking up symptoms on the google site(which I am-lol) please tell me I will be ok and I can handle this as I don't think I will feel ok in the morning knowing I will have to do this on the afternoon.