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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Why we are bigger fans of Sunscreen



Clay had to get a few stitches on his face after they removed a basal skin cancer from his left cheek. They say some of it is hereditary, but it is mostly from lots of sun exposure. The surgeon said that he mostly sees...pilots, who get sun exposure through the cockpit; farmers, who are exposed to a lot of sun by working in the fields; and I honestly can't remember the third.. but whatever it doesn't matter. The first two were the ones that caught our attention because BOTH of them applied to Clay...he is a pilot and he grew up on a farm, plus he spent two years in the Philippines, where he was exposed to a lot of sun too. But thank heavens, we got it taken care of now and not later....after removing a silver dollar size piece of skin they were able to declare that it was all gone. Clay is doing really well, we can't believe how quickly he is healing. What a blessing to have modern medicine and insurance! We also just bought Clay some SPF 70! And he is faithfully using it!

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Runs in my family, I know- take care Clay!

CamilleJohnFam said...

I live in Melanoma county (really it's maricopa county but it is in Sun Valley). Sunblock-don't leave home without it! We've got a bit of melanoma in our family too!