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Living well with melanoma: Meet @grammato3 51 minutes ago | By Teresa, Volunteer Mentor (@hopeful33250)Comment receiving replies
I appreciate the opportunity to introduce you to the Mayo Connect Community, @grammato3! The paradigm shift you mentioned when you said, "...I don’t consider myself as HAVING metastatic melanoma so much as LIVING with metastatic melanoma" is a shift in thinking that many of us acquire when we come to accept a chronic illness as part of our life, but not as defining our life.
While not everyone on Connect has met you before, I'm glad this Spotlight will give others the opportunity to hear your story and take something from it that they can use. Thanks for reaching out to others through Connect. Your story helps us all.
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Pleasure might be on over-reach of the word to use here because, let's face it, not exactly a pleasure being diagnosed with any form of cancer or condition that has such an impact on ones life! But it truly has been a pleasure and a definite opportunity to learn and share in getting to interact with others in similar positions, facing similar challenges and choices, emotions, etc.
Empowerment is such a vital part of dealing with the various medical situations we find ourselves in -- and Mayo Connect is vital tool in which we can share that with one another. I look forward to hearing from others in future Spotlights.