Beauty Queen has increased nails from school and earned cancer
'14.04.2019'
Source: Life.ru
19-year-old Miss Illinois lost her nail when doctors discovered her melanoma, but did not lose heart and won the coveted title.
When, in 2018, an American, Carolina Jasko, won the title Miss Illinois, no one could imagine what a fragile girl had been through. A year before the beauty contest, 18-year-old Carolina, at that time still schoolgirls, was diagnosed with melanoma - a malignant skin tumor, writes Life.ru.
Carolina noticed a black vertical line on the thumb of her right hand during a visit to the manicurist. She had to remove the old layer of acrylic, and then again to grow nails.
“I started growing my nails in high school, going to a nail salon at least once or twice a month.”
At first, the doctors wanted to amputate the whole finger of the girl in order to prevent the spread of metastases. But in the end, managed to get by removing the nail with the matrix - the place of formation of the nail plate.
Oncologists told Caroline that, with a high degree of probability, melanoma was genetically determined, but the ultraviolet radiation used in nail salons could speed up the malignant process.
“Now I have no thumbnail, and never will. But I am grateful to the doctors for what they did, because everything could have ended much worse. "
At first, Carolina was embarrassed to appear in public with a disfigured finger and constantly taped it with a plaster. In addition, the girl had scars on other parts of the body. Surgeons twice borrowed skin from the groin area for thumb transplants. On the chest - the trace of a biopsy. As a precaution, doctors also removed several suspicious stains on the back, chest and arm.
“As soon as I felt comfortable in the role of Miss Illinois, I realized that I was given a unique opportunity and began to spread the word about melanoma and the dangers of ultraviolet radiation.”
Carolina adds that she sees another task: to demonstrate to young girls with her own example that success can be achieved, regardless of any physical disabilities.
