When a person has melanoma (skin cancer) and the operation is done. How do they !

When a person has melanoma (skin cancer) and the operation is done. How do they know if they are dying?

Mine was a Clark Level III. and on my ear.
I mean, I hear people say " well they did the operation for the melanoma and said it was all gone. Then a year later, he was not feeling well and he was dead in 10 days" How long is it from "not feeling so well" to death? Can a person feel ok a week before death?

1 week ago
Mine was a year ago. They look at me every 3 months. Now in 6 months. I mean, how do they know what's going on inside? They said I was borderline needing a sentinel lymph node biopsy, but they have found it does not extend life to know the results. I am confused.

1 week ago
I mean can they feel well even if the cancer has been spreading

1 week ago
This is malignant.

I'm sorry you had melanoma ... it's a TERRIBLE disease. I know because I've had malignant melanoma (much worse than just melanoma) twice ... both 'primary' cancers. I look like someone tried to burn my head off from behind from the scarring, and that 'scar' goes from armpit to armpit because they took the lymph nodes on both sides and amputated six muscles at the back of my neck.
Doctors should do 'tests' ... both on the 'live patient' and on the 'excised cancer' to tell if the person is 'terminal' ... but they don't ALWAYS know. I was told I was 'terminal' with only three months to live, after my first surgery on my neck ... I was only 21 years old at the time. I looked at that doctor and told him that I would 'dance on his grave' and that he would be 'very old' when he died. When I had the second cancer 19 years later, the doctor asked ME how long I wanted to live ... he knew I was the 'oldest living patient' to have what was by that time the 'routine surgery' ... I told him I planned to live to be at least 150, and then I told him he'd have to do the surgery in the outpatient clinic, and not put me into the hospital for 'a month or more' ... which he did. Your 'level III' cancer was BAD, but the surgery should have 'removed' all of it. You'll need to see a doctor at least once every six months for the next five years or longer ... but YOU CAN LIVE A LONG LIFE. Don't 'give in' and think that the cancer is going to 'kill you' ... fantasize the 'cancer cells' in your body as being weak and sickly, and the 'immune system cells' as being HUGE SOLDIERS who can 'wipe them out. I dressed my 'immune soldiers' like Roman Guards from Jesus's time, but you can 'dress yours' the way you want to ... but do this 'fantasy' at least four times every day ... it takes less than five minutes, but those 'five minutes' are IMPORTANT to you in many different ways. This kind of 'fantasy' is a type of 'meditation' and time has showed that this 'meditation/fantasy' can make a HUGE DIFFERENCE in your 'survivability rate.' Second, don't eat the 'healthy food' that everyone says is 'best' ... learn to 'listen to your body' and eat what it wants ... which may be chocolate, or fried oysters, broccoli, cherries, or fresh applesauce. When you have cancer, your body 'needs' different things ... vitamins, minerals, antioxidants ... and the food you'll 'crave' will have those things in the amounts you'll need. I've been 'cancer free' for over 19 years since the second cancer, and I STILL 'listen to my body' and eat ONLY WHAT SOUNDS GOOD, and not what others 'tell me' is good for me. I used to LOVE broccoli best, now I can't even bear to see it on my plate ...but my husband loves it, so we buy 'broccoli and cauliflower and he 'separates' the two onto our plates. Third ... PAMPER YOURSELF. Tell the people who live with you that you NEED THIS to be able to survive, just as you need the meditation and the 'cravings answered' instead of normal 'nutrition'. Take a long hot bath, get books you like to read and read them daily ... go for long walks in the woods, or sit by the stream and watch the water go by. This is to help your body to KNOW EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY ... if you go on a 'strict cancer fighting diet' and have 'lots to do every day' with no time for YOURSELF, you'll get 'sicker' ... so grab a chocolate bar or a can of smoked oysters, and grab a good book and go sit out in the shade in a comfy chair ... and tell everyone that you are 'fighting your cancer' in a way that will help you LIVE to a 'ripe old age' ... say 220 years? I've had to 'up' mine ... there's still so much to 'learn' and do, and I'm just a 'little girl' yet ... at 56!