SAM RIGNEY: My melanoma diagnosis and a new reason to live
Source: The Herald, April 2019
IT was my mild hypochondria that saved my life.
It was late January, two weeks before my wife Erin gave birth to our son Joe, and I had just discovered an irregular mole on my back.
I made an appointment with a doctor to have a skin check and, despite his assurances that it wasn’t malignant and was nothing to worry about, I’d asked him to cut it out. He took it out the next day and I almost immediately forgot about it.