A Very Important Reminder....

Jace

Jace

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Heard on a talk show..
by: Dr. Thomas W. McGovern, Dermatologist
stated: sunscreen, sunscreen, sunscreen

Statistic: 5 million people, each year, are diagnosed
with skin cancer.

He also said "The only safe tan...is
the one you never get!😉

Take care!

Do you?
 

When I was young, I was a lifeguard at an outdoor pool. I did it for two summers. I was very tan all the time in those days. I am now in my 70's and my skin on my arms is rough, but so far no cancer or even precancer problems... Pure luck so far.
 

Way back when I was in high school, when all my friends were "laying out" to get dark tans, I read in my mom's Vogue that the sun gives you wrinkles so I protected my face from then on. My dermatologist is amazed that I barely have any wrinkles at my age. I always hated sitting in the sun anyway.

Two of my best high school friends have died of skin cancer. It's not a nice way to go.
 
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My wife had skin cancer three times. Thanks to her Dermatologist, he was able to clean it up. I watched the second surgery. The way he removed the cancerous melanoma looked like someone taking a plug out of a watermelon before pouring a fifth of liquor in it. It was actually a plug of tissue. The doctor asked me if I was squeamish of blood before allowing me to observe.
 
I was never able to tan... always burned. Towhead blonde as a kid... golden blonde as I got older, so "tanning" just doesn't work. I had one extremely severe burn when I was about 18. Felt like fire for a long time... ugh, bad memory. There wasn't much talk of sunscreen in the 70s. Coppertone ads with the puppy pulling on the girl's swimsuit, sure... but I don't remember any warnings about the dangers.
 
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Nathan said:
Just long sleeve cotton shirts. My skin is 100% covered so I would think that would be complete UV protection.
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Thanks. That's what most landscapers seem to wear also and it works for them. I had been checking into the UV type of shirts but a part of me thinks that they are just some sort of marketing gimmick.
 
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Jace said:
Oh! Yah...
He (Dr.) also Said: 90,000 people DID each year.
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Yes, I'm sure that people are dying daily from all types of carcinogens and various radiations... and it's all very sad.
I've had people that are/were close to me die of these things too... I don't mean to take away from any of that.

However, I believe that there are "toxins" in everything around us. In the air that we breathe, the water that we drink (even bottled waters that we buy), in all bodies of water, in the dirt under our feet... everywhere and in everything. And the sun included in all that.

Furthermore, I believe that we should take reasonable care to protect ourselves... but to what degree is the question that I ask myself. Being out in the sun without schmearing spooge on myself is a risk that I'm okay with. If I die of skin cancer, feel free to come laugh at my funeral.
I've also, drunk unfiltered water out of a spring in the mountains, swam in a river that's been deemed polluted, breathed in road-dust, and several other things that some have frowned on. I've made it this far and I praise God for all those opportunities that He gave me... I don't regret a thing.

I'm tired of hearing the "experts" tell me that these things are the doom of us all... they're as bad as those batty, disheveled and dirty old guys on bicycles with hand-drawn placards about how the end is nigh. I'll also continue to drink my coffee regardless of whether "they're" telling us this year that it's either good or bad for us.

I didn't mean to be rude and apologize for my being curt... I just find all the alarmist stuff annoying.
 
Some may recall that I've had to have my nose operated on four times since retiring in 2015, three of the times I had to be put under and have skin cancer removed from my nose and tissue taken from behind my ears to repair the areas on my nose (skin grafts) and I can't begin to count how many that I've had both big and small (marble to golf ball size) areas surgically removed on my back, neck, shoulders and chest plus countless places frozen that the doc felt that they could become cancerous if left alone....I go every 90 days for a check and am due again this coming Friday.

Luckily all of mine so far (knock on wood) have been basal cells....my advice is go to a dermatologist for a full body check at the very least yearly or every six months if possible.
 
This happened to my mother's friend of years past she had married actually quite late in life and we're talking 70 years of age and the man she married had contracted skin cancer all over his face and of course he had surgery.m, which disfigured him.

He was so depressed about it to the point of one morning he sat with her at breakfast said "excuse me" went in to the bedroom got his gun and pulled the trigger.

I've spent quite a bit of my life working outside and inside and I've got what the medical assistance would call "alligator skin" very rough but so far I haven't had any issues with skin cancer.

I guess I'm just one of the lucky ones like my mother she would be out hoeing cotton fields when she was young and she never got skin cancer.
 
And..'it's been said'

Cancer treats everyone differently!😉
 

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