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		<title>Quantum of Solace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit down in the dumps this last week or so, as usual for no apparent reason.  There was no specific trigger that I can identify although there were a few additional straws (new potential lumps) that may have contributed to the proverbial camel&#8217;s broken back.  None of this is exactly &#8220;news&#8221; to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=873&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. No Problem</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/dr-no-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of the CT scan are in:  no visible problems.  This is a relief because You Never Know and it is highly likely that one of these days there will be a visible problem.  However, for now I feel great and it looks as though I will be able to forgo death by melanoma [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=869&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dye Another Day</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/dye-another-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone! Today saw two minor developments in the continuing saga.  First I got a CT scan, this time without the contrast dye that they usually IV into me.  The last time they did this they were concerned because I sneezed when I was about to leave and they made me sit around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=860&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Comfort</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/christmas-comfort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lump is gone:  good news for Christmas.  Since my last posting a number of things have happened. I had the stitches removed from the previous two excisions.  It&#8217;s a pity one cannot recycle the sutures:  they&#8217;re quite expensive and I&#8217;ve gone through a lot this year.  A couple of days later Dr. M called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=856&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemo on the horizon</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/chemo-on-the-horizon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I went to see Dr. G.  This was essentially a followup visit.  We talked about all the lumps removed during the last year and he examined my latest scars.  In the process he found another new lump more or less in the middle of the cluster of previously excised ones.  Much to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=846&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising towards Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cruise was great!  No, we didn&#8217;t take A with us.  We let her semi-fend for herself with a little help from our friends.  Our time was very relaxing with good food and interesting places to visit.  As a total break from our normal &#8220;you won&#8217;t get me on one of those things&#8221; approach to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=835&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marginal Improvement</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/marginal-improvement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update to say that I saw the surgeon again today and he has taken a bit more margin around the troublesome excision.  That should do the trick, at least until the next time I find a lump.  It was a bit painful:  I seem to need quite a lot of local anaesthetic.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=828&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Margin of Error</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/margin-of-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cg00n</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got the pathology report (verbally) today.  OK news, bad news in this case.  One of the two sites excised had clear margins, which means they took all the melanoma and a bit of uninfected skin just to be sure.  The other site had melanoma right out to the edges.  That means we have to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=822&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a while</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/its-been-a-while/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cg00n</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, no sooner had I completed the previous post I discovered another lump, the first in almost 6 months.  A few days later there was another little cluster of two.  All are at about mid-calf  level and near to previously active sites so they don&#8217;t pose much of a worry.  Anyway, I had them all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=815&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summertiiiime, and the living is easy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://melancholynoma.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/summertiiiime-and-the-living-is-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cg00n</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months since I last posted here.  Amazing how the time flies.  A lot has happened in that period but none of it relates to bad health on my part.  Two doctors have examined me and can find nothing at all to complain about.  In addition to the good news Randi seems to be making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melancholynoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3579923&amp;post=803&amp;subd=melancholynoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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