 I'm Martha Johnson and I'm an artist. I live in Conifer, Colorado with two handsome men, one of whom is human and the other is a cat. Had a mole that I didn't like, went into the adorable and wonderful Sarah Flick, who works in the Kaiser Dermatology Department. When I said to Sarah, Sarah I don't like this mole and she said, Martha, I don't like this mole either, so she did a biopsy. Two days later, got the phone call from Sarah Indeed saying, yep, you were right, it is melanoma. I hung up the phone, 20 minutes later the phone rang again and it was another person from scheduling saying, we know about your diagnosis, we just want you to know that we are on it. Husband Glenn and I went into meet Dr. Evan Gillespie. Some of the first words that came out of his mouth after we met and greeted were, I think Sarah got it all with a biopsy, and I went wahoo, he said but melanoma is kind of an odd beast and one of our only tools is surgery. So what we have to do now is we'll have to have a little more surgery to remove what they call the margins. Talking to Dr. Gillespie, I felt completely comfortable with him, it felt like it was in really, really good hands. The doc called maybe the following Monday, I was surprised how quickly with more great news that the margins were clear. The surgical team was wonderful and more than seamless and more than efficient and more than skillful, I mean those things are all present and absolutely vital, but the kindness and compassion that I felt start to finish was huge, was huge, real impressive. Great. You know, gold played it.