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A Personal Story About Malignant Melanoma
Author(s) -
Rothrock Jane C.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(07)65012-1
Subject(s) - kiss (tnc) , sister , shower , bit (key) , medicine , art , psychology , computer science , sociology , physics , computer network , computer security , anthropology , nozzle , thermodynamics
He had always had the “birthmark” on the inferior margin of his scapula: His mother told him when he was a boy that it was an angel's kiss so it never bothered him A bit smaller than a dime, it sat there dark and flat for 32 years. Then, on a summer day while drying himelf afer a shower he rubbed it, and it felt scabbed He resolved not to dry himself so vigorously and dismissed the thought. Nonetheless, it continued to stay rough, and then he noticed some drainage. During a routine physical exam, his family physician noted it and recommended thut a dermatologist check it. The first thing he did was call his sister, the family nurse.