Wear sunscreen!

[normajeane]

Yep by the time you have noticed it, it is too late. Get better parentage and live in the deep south

[Pussy]

And sorry to hijak your thread pussy, but it is just something that you think that will never happen to you but once it has taken hold, there is not a great deal that can be done about it..... Hopefully Trent's has been caught quick enough to stop it spreading more but we will never know until if / when it comes back again....

Re celtic skin... The radiologist that he saw at the nuclear medicine department was from Aberdeen and she said she was lucky to see two cases of melanoma a year when she worked up there....

I think it's a combination of celtic skin and NZ UV levels in this case, Jaxi

[MyGSXF:Me]

Aw shit bud, that's no good!! Hope it heals quick & ya can get ya boots back on soon!! take care

[rudolph]

The sun is so strong now it only takes a few minis to get burnt, have to cover your neck wile riding, I had something cut out on my neck and it looks like shit now I know how you feel

[fireball]

hope it all clears up for you pussy, it is not a great thing to have at all.
i think anyone over the age of about 18 is prob screwed as sun screen was never ever something you thought about putting on.
at work we are strongly advised to get mole maps done and work pays for half (they are not cheap) as we spend all our time out in the sun, and we stop the kids every hour or so to put sun screen on.
but i still come home sun burnt too often even under my big dorky wide brim hat.

[normajeane]

Well we all been burnt and we all don't want anything more serious such as that maleanoma thingy to come back and haunt us later in life. So we all feel for you if that takes some of the pain away - do the drugs as these will help initially.

[PrincessBandit]

Fireball is right - for many of us in the "older" age bracket sunscreen just wasn't an issue when we were younger. In fact, as has been pointed out already we used to literally fry ourselves with oil then lie out in the sun.
I have always burnt rather than tan but was determined not to be the whitest of the white kids (all the cool girls had lovely tans); however now I'm older I jsut tell myself "white is the new tan". The fact that my legs still look like milk bottles (how many of you young ones even know what they are) is everybody elses problem **reach for the sunglasses!!**
Hope you heal quickly John.

[klingon]

I had a malignant melanoma a few years ago. I was lucky they caught it just as it was 'turning' and they managed to get it all with surgery. Funny thing is, it was on my bum! And I can guarantee my bum has never been out in the sun.

So yeah - apply that sun screen, keep an eye on any funny moles, and don't assume because it's in some place where the sun doesn't shine, that it can't be melanoma. Get it checked out anyway.

[Pussy]

Funny thing is, it was on my bum! And I can guarantee my bum has never been out in the sun.

Pics!.... or it didn't happen!

[SPman]

Had nothing as drastic as that John but have had the odd cell burnt off. Well, frozen off really, and that hurts like fuck. One off the top of my ear and one off my shin, oh and the at the same time, I had an ingrown hair cut out of my knee....

Anne wants me to go back and get some more looked at but I aint so keen...Guess I should, it unpleasent but if they need to go, they need to go.

Solar Kerotoses.....I get those - get em knocked off with liquid nitrogen or CO2! Got a new gel treatment you apply to the affected areas over a 3 month period, which is meant to clear the areas up - don't know how effective it is, yet.......
That'll learn me for getting fried to a crisp, as a kid, then working outside for years.............

[Maha]

Solar Kerotoses.....I get those - get em knocked off with liquid nitrogen or CO2! Got a new gel treatment you apply to the affected areas over a 3 month period, which is meant to clear the areas up - don't know how effective it is, yet.......
That'll learn me for getting fried to a crisp, as a kid, then working outside for years.............

Cheers for that, I will ask about the gel for sure, nothing like getting cool soothing stuff gently rubbed on hot spots!...

[davereid]

At least you got the buggar Pussy...

I'm Ngati Hotu, and I burn like a bastard. Show me a picture of a sunny day, and the skin on my nose peels...

[portokiwi]

Gabby learnt from Xmas last year She fell asleap at the St heliers beach her back was red as a beetroot, the string from her bikini was still there allmost 2 months later, every time I saw her naked I kept telling her to take of her bikini She could not believe how bad the sun was here in New Zealand compeared to Portugal. She learnt the hard way.
I was shocked that she had a bikini tan lines

[Pussy]

Bloody GREAT.... getting the stitches out this arvo.
Hopefully m/c boots will be easy to don
Was VERY pissed off yesterday being a spectator at rz2rf's trackday due to not being able to get boots on

[Maha]

Mom is right, Maha!!
About 8 years ago I had three cut off my back... right in the place where you can't reach either from over the shoulder or up the back. They didn't hurt that much, but man they ITCHED LIKE A BASTARD when they were healing!
I got lots of strange looks from my loader driver as I was using the aeroplane's control lock to scratch my back as he was loading the plane

Solar Kerotoses.....I get those - get em knocked off with liquid nitrogen or CO2! Got a new gel treatment you apply to the affected areas over a 3 month period, which is meant to clear the areas up - don't know how effective it is, yet.......
That'll learn me for getting fried to a crisp, as a kid, then working outside for years.............

Getting the freeze treatment this afternoon at 4.40, there a couple of things that need removing, even I have to agree with that. Hope it just the two, nice Dr nice Dr.....