Don't forget your sunscreen......

[snagged in outlet 3]

I use simms sun shirts and pants.  I use sun gloves too.  Big ole hat to top it off.  And then sunscreen on my face to protect against reflection.   I never got used to the face gators.   I’ve been doing it for years because I burn easy.   To say I’m white is the understatement of the century😂.   Hang in there @Steve McBasser   

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Good reminder and hope you recover well. I'm with @snagged in outlet 3, Simms shirts with a hood and gloves every day in the summer. Look like the Elephant Man going out in public but it really saves me, and hopefully will later in life as well. The sun zaps so much out of me and when I was younger I did not respect it enough. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

I have some exoficcio sun shirts and pants too.  

[ColdWaterFshr]

Yeah, hang in there McBasser.  And thank you for the reminder.

I had MOH's surgery last week to remove some squamous cell near my right temple.  Just came back from the surgeon's office a few minutes ago to have the stitches removed.  Not as big as your incision, but no fun either.  I think I have a few more spots that need attention too.

[BilletHead]

@Steve McBasser,

    Wishing you a speedy recovery man.  I am not the best about protecting my skin, but this will jerk a new knot in my tail. Thanks for the reminder as all have said before.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, Nick Adams said:

Good God, man. Have some couth. Cancer is hard and it can be beaten with medical intervention whether you think so or not. Put the tinfoil away and catch a bastardized wiper.

What? !  

Wow! 🙄

[m&m]

Steve, sorry to hear this but happy that the prognosis is looking good. 
 

Mike

[jdmidwest]

Since my round, I keep sunlight to a minimum.  It hits my arms and face.  I wear nylon quick dry pants now in the boat while wading, no shorts.  Kayaks, I dose anything up with sunscreen.  Big floppy hat with a drop down for the neck.

My skin is crap, toasted by many years in the sun and may need some dermo attention.  But, with all of the radiation from the CT, PET, and X Ray Machines in the 4 year battle with cancer, topped off with intense radiation to the head and neck, I tend to err to the safe side.

 

[Ketchup]

5 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

Yeah, hang in there McBasser.  And thank you for the reminder.

I had MOH's surgery last week to remove some squamous cell near my right temple.  Just came back from the surgeon's office a few minutes ago to have the stitches removed.  Not as big as your incision, but no fun either.  I think I have a few more spots that need attention too.

Going in for the exact thing, in the exact location. It had been there for 3 years now, and never thought much about it, but it isn’t going away. If i rub it to hard with a towel, etc. it will bleed. Hasn’t changed in size/appearance. 
 

Anything you can share about the procedure? You can PM is needed. 

[Steve McBasser]

2 hours ago, Ketchup said:

Going in for the exact thing, in the exact location. It had been there for 3 years now, and never thought much about it, but it isn’t going away. If i rub it to hard with a towel, etc. it will bleed. Hasn’t changed in size/appearance. 
 

Anything you can share about the procedure? You can PM is needed. 

My doctor said left forearm and elbow are two of the most common areas of trouble. Mostly from driving and the sun coming in the window so they are always exposed even when other areas of the body are covered. That's accidental exposure. Now add that to thousands of hours purposely in the sun with little or no protection and there's no wonder I had a problem. If your doctor suspects cancer he will scrape it off first and send it to a pathology lab to see if its cancer or not, and then to determine what kind. If it is cancer then you will come back in and he will cut the section of skin out that contains the cancer with the margins around it that the pathology called for. In my case it was skin and the fatty layer under it only. They did not have to get into the muscle. Then they send that piece of skin into the lab to make sure they got all of it. Then you have to care for the wound by keeping polysporin and bandages on it so it stays soft until the stitches come out. The skin was very tight on my arm for the first several days because they have to stretch it to sew you back together after taking such a large piece of skin out. You have to take it easy for a while so you don't tear your stitches out. I am right at 6 weeks now on mine and I am healing up very well. Hope this helps....