Greg – Kyles dad

Keep positive.  Find out all you can.  Take good care of yourself and most important of all, live your life.

My son, a high level athlete, was diagnosed wtih Stage IIIa at 17 years old (2005) shortly after being invited to live and train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  He still went there after his surgeries and he trained there while undergoing interferon treatment.  He completed the entire year.  This certainly was a set back for him, but he continued to live his life and work toward his dreams of representing the USA in the olympics one day.  He came back to qualify fior the Olympic Trials in 2008.  He did not make the team, but he was satisfied with his accomplishments.  He took a break to pursue another dream.  He is now ina top tier law school and will graduate next year.  He did have one recurrence last year (one subcutaneous nodule), but otherwise is doing great.  My son is an inspiration to me to move on and life your life desipite the obstacles.  He has a video emphasizing prevention at http://www.kylesstory.com.

Don't let mel change your dreams.

Best of luck to you and happy holidays

Greg – Kyles dad.

Keep positive.  Find out all you can.  Take good care of yourself and most important of all, live your life.

My son, a high level athlete, was diagnosed wtih Stage IIIa at 17 years old (2005) shortly after being invited to live and train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  He still went there after his surgeries and he trained there while undergoing interferon treatment.  He completed the entire year.  This certainly was a set back for him, but he continued to live his life and work toward his dreams of representing the USA in the olympics one day.  He came back to qualify fior the Olympic Trials in 2008.  He did not make the team, but he was satisfied with his accomplishments.  He took a break to pursue another dream.  He is now ina top tier law school and will graduate next year.  He did have one recurrence last year (one subcutaneous nodule), but otherwise is doing great.  My son is an inspiration to me to move on and life your life desipite the obstacles.  He has a video emphasizing prevention at http://www.kylesstory.com.

Don't let mel change your dreams.

Best of luck to you and happy holidays

Greg – Kyles dad.

Keep positive.  Find out all you can.  Take good care of yourself and most important of all, live your life.

My son, a high level athlete, was diagnosed wtih Stage IIIa at 17 years old (2005) shortly after being invited to live and train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  He still went there after his surgeries and he trained there while undergoing interferon treatment.  He completed the entire year.  This certainly was a set back for him, but he continued to live his life and work toward his dreams of representing the USA in the olympics one day.  He came back to qualify fior the Olympic Trials in 2008.  He did not make the team, but he was satisfied with his accomplishments.  He took a break to pursue another dream.  He is now ina top tier law school and will graduate next year.  He did have one recurrence last year (one subcutaneous nodule), but otherwise is doing great.  My son is an inspiration to me to move on and life your life desipite the obstacles.  He has a video emphasizing prevention at http://www.kylesstory.com.

Don't let mel change your dreams.

Best of luck to you and happy holidays

Greg – Kyles dad.

I am a physical therapist and I have never heard of this.  From my limited knowledge of melanoma, I have not heard of this in that realm either.  Certainly pursue the orthopedic evaluation to see what this is, but I would not get too worried about it.

Greg

I am a physical therapist and I have never heard of this.  From my limited knowledge of melanoma, I have not heard of this in that realm either.  Certainly pursue the orthopedic evaluation to see what this is, but I would not get too worried about it.

Greg

Agree with Dawn – lots of different opinions and they are all good opinions – this is a personal choice.

In my son's case, he did have a small recurrence 5 years after interferon (an in-transit subcutaneous nodule).  That was a year ago and he is fine since.  We will never know if interferon made a difference – but I feel like it may have at least held it off a few years and look at the advances that have been made in the last year.  There is debate about whether it improves overall survival, but if it can hold you off from going to stage IV for a little while, then that in itself is worth it (in my opinion).

Good luck.

Greg  – Kyle's dad

Agree with Dawn – lots of different opinions and they are all good opinions – this is a personal choice.

In my son's case, he did have a small recurrence 5 years after interferon (an in-transit subcutaneous nodule).  That was a year ago and he is fine since.  We will never know if interferon made a difference – but I feel like it may have at least held it off a few years and look at the advances that have been made in the last year.  There is debate about whether it improves overall survival, but if it can hold you off from going to stage IV for a little while, then that in itself is worth it (in my opinion).

Good luck.

Greg  – Kyle's dad