This S#!T is Real!

A 37-year-old Australian father of two is warning others to undergo a routine skin check after losing a large chunk of flesh on his back and neck to melanoma.

Ryan Glossop, of Perth, was diagnosed with melanoma in November 2018 after noticing a seemingly innocuous “sunspot” on the back of his neck. Four surgeries and nearly a year later, he has only recently been given the all-clear.

“Each and every time his marker came back [abnormal] and being told they need[ed] to remove more, I felt sick,” Fallon Glossop, Ryan’s wife, told Fox News. “I can’t really explain that feeling, but it’s something I would never want to go through again.”

Each surgery required more and more of the skin on the man’s upper back and neck to be removed. In May, during his fourth and most recent surgery, so much was taken that Ryan required a skin graft to cover the affected area. Surgeons used skin from the back of his legs to replace what they took.

A large area of skin was removed from Ryan’s back and neck.

In total, an area about 3 inches wide and 15 inches long was removed.

A skin condition called Nevus Spilus led Ryan to develop melanoma, Fallon, 32, wrote in an Oct. 3 Facebook post detailing her husband’s cancer journey. As of this writing, the post had more than 1,200 reactions and about 3,000 shares.

“This whole experience has been hugely challenging for all of us, but if anything good is to come out of this, it is that we now want to help raise more awareness of skin cancer,” she wrote at the time.

The spot on the back of Ryan’s neck that was later determined to be cancerous.

Actually my spot looked a lot like his…..This is scary SHIT!

So Please…..Wear a hat…..Sunscreen……Protect yourself!

Talk soon….Jim