Hi,

my partner recently went to the doctors to get some help with sciatica, whilst he was there he mentioned about his big toenail. It’s had a black line on it for a good while now and is black in colour, it’s just on the toenail not on the skin. Now he’s a big football player and wore steel toe cap boots for near 10 years in his previous job so he put the nail down to trauma from playing football and possibly some knocks and bangs in work. 
when the doctor seen his toe her reaction was “I don’t like the looks of it” which wasn’t very reassuring, and she never said anything else other than she was referring him to a dermatologist. 
now having looked online (idiotic thing to do) it’s coming up with subungal melanoma, which is obviously very worrying for us. 
he’s had no other signs and symptoms, no pain to the toe or anything. This is on his left foot. The only things he’s had is the sciatica pain but that’s all right sided, I don’t think that’s related but if you type these things into Google all kinds come up! 

to top all of this off, at the moment we are going through chemotherapy with our son who’s recently been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma. All is going well for our son but to have this with my partner also come up is causing more distress for us all.

my question is, has anyone ever had this type of “thing” and what the outcome was, what type of treatment did you have. Basically any information you can give would be greatly appreciated on the whole toenail situation. It’s making my partner and myself sick to our stomach as everything online points to survival rates and they seem low which is very disheartening.