SUN SCREEN? “BUT IT’S SO MESSY.” SO IS SKIN CANCER

Do you think sun screen is messy?

Too runny, too pasty, too this, too that.

Besides, you life in a rain shadow under cloudy skies.

What do you need sun screen for?

I noticed a spot on my face I hadn’t seen before.

Me: Does this look funny?

Wife: Make an appointment and get it checked out. It does look funny, but not ‘ha ha.’

Me: Okay.

Wife: They’ll do a biopsy.

Me: And then they’ll tell me it’s nothing too worry about, everything is normal.

Wife: That’s the plan.

Me: Probably need a tiny bandaid for the punch.

Wife: Probably.

 

About That Little Bandaid? It Grew

Well I got the little bandage, then went back for this.

It was a few years ago in my youthful 60’s.

That little bandaid grew into a big fucker.

 

Me: Does anyone remember the Beatles?

Staff: No.

Doctor: Yes, of course.

Me: Do you remember who was called the ‘Cute Beatle?’

Doctor: The cute one? No.

Me: It was Paul. I’m the cute one in my band and I’d like to stay that way if possible.

Doctor: We’ll do our best.

 

Their Best Takes Time

I walked out to my car and drove home with this on my head.

It seemed a little dramatic from where I started, but that’s what using sun screen may help avoid.

Is it still too messy?

 

That evening we all went out to the movies and saw 1917.

I sat there feeling a little like a conspicuous cosplayer watching a movie with a lot of guys patched up.

It was a movie, not the real thing.

 

We don’t get drafted for skin cancer; no one volunteers for skin cancer.

But there are steps to take.

Try not to fuck around with skin cancer, or any other cancer because you don’t want to find out you waited too long.

The choices I felt available were be stupid and die, or get it checked out.

I’d felt it before.

 

Avoidable? Yes, Avoidable, Except . . .

Except:

 

 

No one wants to walk around with a face full of bandages, but it happens.

 

 

Unless you like answering the same question over and over use caution, and sun screen.

Understand?

“What happened to your face?”

 

Sun Screen And Regular Skin Exams

A recent visit, where I expected to get in and out unscathed?

I was wrong, but not like other times I’ve been wrong.

Instead of a big wrapper I got a little bandaid that didn’t interfere with my Fu Manchu because that’s important.

Call it my yearly wrap on cancer, or a reason to give yourself a good going over.

Get naked and ask your partner to scope you out.

If there’s anything new, or changed, you know what to do.

Do it sooner than later and let the healing begin.

You might get a little freezing, a little scraping, a little digging and burning.

Ask for the fan to clear the smoke of you getting toasty.

 

 

Make 2025 the year of the ‘pretty boy.’

I might make it?

Yes, I will. And so will you.

It just takes a little more time for us geezers.