WMostellar
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Day 3:
A Day with my Dermatologist...
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texas_pilot
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After 30 years, I laid my smokes down and never looked back- would've bet 1 $ mil that was impossible. Something about applied anger to losing both parents, I suppose.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
I pretty much have to go yearly just to get checked out. No spots yet, thankfully, but I'm so pale, I could be mistaken for the "visible human".
Here's the deal with the "big C". There is a vast assortment of cells in your body, but they can be summed up into three broad types. One of those types are called epithelial cells. These cells, roughly speaking, are generally "liners". They line the various surfaces of your body, both internal (like the lining of your intestine) and external (such as skin), and are really "designed"* to ablate off and be replaced quickly. As a result, they are programmed for rapid division and growth.
Cancer makes cell division & growth go haywire in any cell. Cancer in epithelial cells are bad, bad news, because you are making a cell already programmed for rapid growth/division go bezerk, and things can get out of control extremely rapidly.
Cancer of any type is bad, but anything dealing with epithelial cells can get out of hand in an astonishingly short period of time.
Richman
* Don't read anything into the usage of this word. I was an engineer before I went back for more school, and I think of everything in those terms. Nature, nurture or divine intervention, the result is the same.
Here's the deal with the "big C". There is a vast assortment of cells in your body, but they can be summed up into three broad types. One of those types are called epithelial cells. These cells, roughly speaking, are generally "liners". They line the various surfaces of your body, both internal (like the lining of your intestine) and external (such as skin), and are really "designed"* to ablate off and be replaced quickly. As a result, they are programmed for rapid division and growth.
Cancer makes cell division & growth go haywire in any cell. Cancer in epithelial cells are bad, bad news, because you are making a cell already programmed for rapid growth/division go bezerk, and things can get out of control extremely rapidly.
Cancer of any type is bad, but anything dealing with epithelial cells can get out of hand in an astonishingly short period of time.
Richman
* Don't read anything into the usage of this word. I was an engineer before I went back for more school, and I think of everything in those terms. Nature, nurture or divine intervention, the result is the same.
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killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
Also @mshunter ...
It took somewhere north of a dozen attempts to actually quit smoking, and I will STILL light up on very special occasions. I'm down to maybe one or two cigarettes per year. (NetworkJC was an aberration.)
The only thing I really learned about that quit process is that no one can or will quit until they are ready. You can stop smoking, but if you like to smoke, you're just going to keep doing it. I finally got to where I didn't like smoking anymore. I managed to sort of dovetail the quitting smoking with the early stages of a new relationship, which suddenly meant I had all this new energy and better circulation, etc...and discovered that sex was WAY better as a non-smoker.
About a year after I'd been really quit, during a high-stress situation at work, I lit up, was nauseated for the next six hours and really haven't been back to it unless vast amounts of booze are included.
Point being....once you're ready and motivated, it's not that hard to quit. It's hard when you're trying to quit and you don't really want to.
B-,
I apologize for not getting back sooner. We've been on the road for the last 12 days.
Anyways, even though there is no cancer in my body right now, , I'm only in remission. Once you've had any cancer, your never really cured.
Melanoma is a bitch in that there are 3 types---superficial spreading (which I had excised), a subdural spreading (I think that's the name), and the tiny little red dot on the surface that grows down like a taproot.
I have a friend who's husband had the third type. From diagnosis to death was about four months.
The tiny little red dot on the surface, under his arm, connected to a lymph node which then spread it through his body.
What sent him to see the doc was completely unrelated in that he thought he had the flu. The doc took a blood sample and that's the rest of the story.
So, I hope your excision is benign. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know about my experience, I'm not scared to share.
cezzna
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We visited this in another thread earlier last year. The crapy sunscreen in the US is mostly ineffective at blocking UVA rays. UVA is mostly cancer causing, UVB gives you the sunburn. The cockpit windscreen blocks UVB, but not UVA, so regular sunscreen is essentially useless in the cockpit. There are good quality european sunscreens available that effectively block UVA. They have several ingredients that are approved there but not here, and they work way better. One of the ingredients is Tinsorb, which has microscopic particles of tin.
If anyone knows where a guy could get this without ordering from Amazon or some such place, please post it. We all should be using this better stuff, the only stuff that will make a difference in the cockpit.
Do your own research and you will find that our 'broadband' US sunscreens are pure crap.
If anyone knows where a guy could get this without ordering from Amazon or some such place, please post it. We all should be using this better stuff, the only stuff that will make a difference in the cockpit.
Do your own research and you will find that our 'broadband' US sunscreens are pure crap.
Polar742
All the responsibility none of the authority
@WMostellar Glad you caught that early! Hope your recovery is going well.
What do our overlords in OKC say about the medical deal?
What do our overlords in OKC say about the medical deal?