Anne Getzly We hope for more time
WHO|November 28, 2022
THIS SYDNEY LOCAL IS BARING HER SKIN TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT SKIN CANCER
Jodie Wolf
Anne Getzly We hope for more time

Recruitment director Anne Gately, 56, was referred to a dermatologist for a simple skin check 12 years ago, and results from a biopsy on a mole revealed she had melanoma. Initially, she says she was in shock. “My mind went to the worst place.” But she acted quickly in organising the next steps and met with a surgeon, who advised surgery to remove the mole and promised to operate the following day. “I’ve got quite a big scar on my back,” Anne says. “I had to wait two weeks for the pathology report to tell me if the cancer had gone to my lymph nodes.”

Anne spent the following fortnight with “big metal staples” in her back and calling on friends and family to redress her wound, keeping her situation hidden from her two young sons. “I’d made the decision not to tell my boys until I knew what the pathology results were,” she shares. “Two weeks later I received fantastic news, it hadn’t travelled to my lymph nodes!”

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 28, 2022 من WHO.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 28, 2022 من WHO.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.