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Our Hero Sharon Price has now finished 09 Nov 2009 Sharon's story: Sharon was 37 weeks pregnant with her second child when she found a lump in her neck while cooking dinner. She knew it was not a good place for a lump because her doctor has felt this area every time she has had a check up since she had an extremely low risk melanoma removed from her shoulder two years ago in August 2007. Two days after feeling the lump she was told that the melanoma had recurred in the lymph nodes in her neck and two days later she was in hospital having her second child; a beautiful little brother for Riley (4 years) who she named Max. After a harrowing wait for three days to have a CT scan to stage the cancer, she was really relieved to be told it was stage 3 and there was some prospect of a cure - she was so distressed at the thought of leaving her two little boys without a mother so young - being told it was stage 3 was such a relief. A week later she had 38 lymph nodes removed from her neck. This was a really rough time for her - the neck dissection was major surgery and she had just had a c-section, and was looking after a newborn baby. She spent her son's 4th birthday in hospital. Melanoma was present in a number of lymph nodes, and one was particularly large, with the melanoma spreading beyond the lymph node capsule. Not as good a result as she had hoped for. A few weeks after finishing 4 weeks of daily radiation Sharon felt a lump in her breast which ended up being one of more found in both breasts along with additional lesions on her liver - she is now Stage 4 and fighting for her life. |