Like a big dummy.......

[I-R-POPS]

I never used sun screen and now I'm paying for it.
In the past month I've had 38 pre-cancerous spots frozen with liquid nitrogen on my face and arms and 3 biopsies came back positive. So today I had 2 of them cut out. I have to get the other one done the 10th of June on my ear..

YA'LL USE THE SUN SCREEN AND WEAR A HAT!!!!!

 

[GJunktionMike]

Well that sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI wear your sunscreen.

 

[CR55]

Great advice Pops! Hope every one listens

 

[26Troadster]

sorry to hear this pops, i hope it all works out for you. i'm also one who doesn't use sun screen, but i need to.

 

[Old Iron]

Glad you're getting it taken care of.
Too many ignore the symptoms.

 

[billy]

solid advice pops
i am getting one taken off in a few days

 

[Dirtyrat]

Wow Pops, heres to a speedy recovery, and to sunscreen & hat...

 

[earthman]

Good advice and best wishes for the procedure Pops.

 

[Yankee Transplant]

wow . glad your getting them gone .. I got burnt on the face while bush - hogging all day on and old tractor ,, No hat ,, thought id tuff it out and get it done , well a month or so later after doctoring on it I had sun cancer spot cut off my nose .. from now on I stay out of the sun or have a hat ... Like a dummy I asked the doc , how I got it ??? The doc said aaaaaa the sun !!!! boy did I feel stupid just as soon as that question popped out of my mouth , I couldnt believe I asked him that

 

[bob w]

Yep, been there, done that. Had a big gouge taken out of my cheek. Annual checkups now with a few new spots to freeze each time. And this is up north where the sun never shines.

I know you'll be careful from now on.

 

[I-R-POPS]

Thanks for the thoughts guys. It's really hard to avoid the sun when you live in the desert so I should be smart enough to take some simple precautions.
Just need to take the time to do it.

Just call don't call me scar face, I'm a really sensitive kind of guy.

 

[donsrods]

For years I was a sun worshiper, literally, and I have also been visiting a dermatologist lately. Had some cut off and some frozen and am dealing with some Roseacia on my face. I never used sunblock and used to say some day I would pay the price................that day is now here.

Hope you do well with yours, Pop.

Don

 

[radford46]

Maybe just wear the hat

The sun and the vitamin D it produces for you are very good for you and the best source for vitamin D by far. If you have light colored skin and blonde or red hair, protect yourself well with a collared shirt and a hat. And everyone should limit their exposure and not get burned.
From what I've been reading the chemicals in the sunscreen are worse than the sun and are probably responsible for a lot of the skin cancer.
Bob Marley died of skin cancer on his toe.

 

[billy]

this is wierd stuff (skin cancer) the one i have on my nose that is to be removed the 28th looks like it is completely gone.
but the doc says they put out roots.

 

[donsrods]

When I told my Dermatologist that my Sons spray me with sunblock, she said to be careful of the fumes and do it in the outdoors...something about the fumes not being good for your lungs.

If the sun doesn't get you the sunblock will !!!!!!!!!!!!

Don

 

[05snopro440]

Did you hear they have drinkable sunblock now? They claim it's SPF 30, but it's $30 a bottle. For that price a guy better not get addicted

 

[05snopro440]

this is wierd stuff (skin cancer) the one i have on my nose that is to be removed the 28th looks like it is completely gone.
but the doc says they put out roots.

Yeah, they do put down roots that can go an awful long way.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I used to go shirtless in the summer, when I was a kid. Now, I don't like it. I still get pretty brown but I do switch to long sleeves because I get sun bumps on my arms. Amazingly enough, a light long sleeve shirt is cooler than no sleeves. If a tank top and shorts was cooler, those A-rabs would be running around in them. Instead, they are wrapped in cool white cloth.

 

[Bamamav]

The sun and the vitamin D it produces for you are very good for you and the best source for vitamin D by far. If you have light colored skin and blonde or red hair, protect yourself well with a collared shirt and a hat. And everyone should limit their exposure and not get burned.
From what I've been reading the chemicals in the sunscreen are worse than the sun and are probably responsible for a lot of the skin cancer.
Bob Marley died of skin cancer on his toe.

I've got to agree, many of my kin folks worked the fields and never heard of sun block and lived to be in their 80's and older with no ill effects. I think it has more to do with the chemicals we ingest in our food now that react to sunlight. The old folks lived off the land, and didn't have the cancers like we see now. It's not the sun, it's what's inside us now that does it.

Just for the record, I always wear western shirts and a cap, short sleeves in summer, long in winter. I seldom stay out enough to get burned anymore, on the tractor is my worst time and that's not very often.

 

[billy]

Yeah
I don't like being in the sun
But I end up there sometimes
I never understood sun bathing
I spent most of my life trying to get out of it!