After 40 years of freckles and fair skin I had my first encounter yesterday with a dermatologist. His advice? Wear a hat and use sunscreen. This after removing a recent sun related growth for a biopsy and freezing several other spots on my head and face. Talk about a brain freeze. That stuff is cold. You should get to eat ice-cream while that is happening. If you’re going to have a cold related headache you might as well have the calories to go with it.
My dad has these things frozen all the time. When I wanted to be like him it was in other ways. Well, at least I still have my hair (on my chest anyway).
I’m glad of course that nothing was serious. So I’ll pass along his advice to you. Wear a hat and use sunscreen.
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November 30th, 2005 at 10:57 am
Bro:
We’ll certainly pray for you and the spots.
On the mention of personal chest hair:
1. Too much information.
2. I’ve seen it.
3. Too much information again.
4. I’m in the club.
5. Again, too much information.
6. We’ll probably see it again at Pepperdine this year.
7. Steve, “see” what you’re missing by not coming to “Jerry’s (Pepperdine)Place.”
All of this talk about chest hair is a bnlann subject.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:02 am
I’m glad the news was good. I hope you won’t have any family portraits until the face-freezing marks have subsided.
Didn’t Kurt Vonnegut supposedly make a speech advising the audience to “wear sunscreen”?
vduip: French slang for SPF 40
November 30th, 2005 at 11:18 am
I should probably not comment here, but hey, why not!?
Wa-a-a-a-y more information than necessary!
vmmqxv: feeling about too much information about chest hair!
November 30th, 2005 at 11:19 am
P.S.
I’m also glad everything’s okay.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Yes, that stuff is COLD. My first trip, I thought the doc would never stop spraying it. My most recent trip, the doc sort of hit the place for about 3 seconds. I wonder why the difference?
Glad it was all benign. Not only do you have chest hair, you also have barnacles! Welcome to that part of life known as “geezer”! You may be just a geezer pup, but the end result is the same. BARNACLES and loss of memory! As for theh chest hair, you can always wyywzrpp it out.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:39 am
I have an African hat that I wear outside… It covers all the bald spots And the shoulders, which have very few hairs.
Soon, I know, you will try to outdo Greg and write of nasal and ear hair. But thanks for sparing us this time.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Glad you’re okay.
Note to everyone: commenting on the chest hair just makes me visualize it again.
And now I’ve done it too.
Xocxfvc.
November 30th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
Glad all spots were “spot-less.” As I get older I worry about the barnacles as Greg calls them. Growing up in sunny Florida, we never thought about using sunscreen.
I can remember getting sunburned so bad in 2nd grade that I couldn’t wear clothes for a couple of days.
I could have used the copious amounts of body hair I’m adorned with now.
Too much 411 again!
afyynnu (”a fyy nnu” Southern for “If I knew.”)
December 1st, 2005 at 12:50 am
I had my first skin cancer removed (from my face - ack!) in my early twenties. And I’ve lived in Oregon all my life - must be that rare rust cancer!
ltxgqijv: the technical name for rust cancer