really glad yours was caught and treated early ... melanomia is a VERY deadly disease as you well know ...
The surgeon was more scared than I was....felt I was too young to have to deal with it. Just in my 20’s.....thank God my physician noticed it. Had a biop done and it went from there. I had a good junk of my upper arm taken out for that...but never let it get in my way of living life.
My attitude on everything is if it can be fixed or replaced then I have a ‘temporary’ problem.