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| Don't turn yourself into "bacon" by too much sun. |
As a teenager I spent entirely too much time in the sun, and those were the days before sunscreen. We would lather ourselves in baby oil that had been browned with a few drops of iodine. With my fair skin and freckles, I tried in vain to get a really good tan. More freckles--but no tan. And then I spent an entire summer working in tropical Africa under the hot sun-- no hat and no sunscreen.. Now I am paying the price.
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| Five biopsies of suspicious lesions. |
Yesterday I had biopsies of five very small suspicious lesion. Over the last ten years I have had a number of squamous cell skin cancers (but no melanomas) that have been treated successfully with Mohs surgery. I have an excellent doctor, Dr. Rob Clark, at the Cary Skin Center and I go in regularly for a skin check. I suspect that some of these biopsies will require Mohs surgery.
Now I avoid the sun as much as possible, and when outdoors I wear my Tilley hat and I use sunscreen EVERY day.
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| In the sun wearing my Tilley hat sailing with David Campbell in Cape Breton. |
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| Don't get baked like a "turkey". Wear sunscreen. |
I couldn't resist getting copies of these two cartoons that were posted as I checked out of the Cary Skin Center.
