Two Experts Share What They Wish They’d Done Differently…and How You Can Stay Safe.
I was six months pregnant when I spotted a tiny brown dot on my right calf. It didn’t seem like much, but for months, I monitored it for changes. When it got slightly darker, I had a couple of other dermatologists eyeball it. I asked, “Am I being crazy?” They all agreed it was nothing to worry about.
But it nagged at me. So despite thinking I was being dramatic, I did a biopsy myself and sent it off to the lab. That night, the pathologist left me a voice mail. We played phone tag for three excruciating hours while I worried about how I’d take care of an infant and a toddler if I needed aggressive cancer treatment. Even though I was expecting the worst, it was still a punch in the gut to learn I had melanoma.
Luckily, the mole was tiny—only 2 millimeters and thin (thicker melanomas are deadlier). I got it removed and was essentially cured…until a few years later, when I found another melanoma on my leg.
This story is from the June 2017 edition of Cosmopolitan.
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