Thank you all very much for your kind remarks and well wishes. I understand that if you make it for five years without recurrance, that your chances of redeveloping another melanoma is the same as the chances that you'd develop one in the first place. So here's hoping.
And I hope and pray that all my friends here (which is everyone) will take care not to miss changes of any kind in a mole or any of the other warning signs. Like I said - I ain't JUST skin cancer. Melanoma is the most deadly form of cancer there is. And it doesn't respond to chemo, radiation, or much of anything else. Think of a wildfire let loose in your body. You put it out over here, and it pops up over there and it keeps on doing this till you're gone.
Thanks again for all your kindness,
francois