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Over the last 5 years, My 42 years of smoking started wanting payment, and I had a steady string of my body suddenly telling me I SAID, and me going oh, ok......
For all of them I was guilty as charged, didn't listen, didn't think, refused to believe it would bother me.
Now for the last 2 years I have been "healthy" well Diabetes is controlled, heart is patched up to a like new state, and doing better in most regards, my heart rate is stable, and no more dizzies all the time, or an irregular pulse. BUT, and a really big BUT. I have acquired skin cancer. Not just any skin cancer, but Merkle Cell Carcinoma. This is the stuff that killed Jimmy Buffett. Survival rate if you live 3 years with it is 50%, even after 3 years, 5 years, 10 years your odds for an additional 3 are 50%. Currently I have a baseball sized ditch in my left arm, from the first surgery. Now less than a year later, well it's back, and has been for 4 months, I have anther site on my left wrist, and surgery is next Tuesday. So my recurrence was fast, not a good sign. For this stuff my smoking wasn't a problem, just sun exposure, and for all of you older guys you will know when I say SPF has only meant something for the last 10 years or so. So most of us Boomers with it, didn't know there was something we should have been doing, but heck a tan was a sign of good health, vim, vigor, and all that stuff. Not of impending death.
I missed the call when my body was screaming protect me, on that one. Well nobody bats 1000. :-)
For me the "strange" part did occur though, it was the huge wormlike growth growing out of my elbow site, that was a certain, uhhhhhh hey Doc, WTF is that????
For all of them I was guilty as charged, didn't listen, didn't think, refused to believe it would bother me.
Now for the last 2 years I have been "healthy" well Diabetes is controlled, heart is patched up to a like new state, and doing better in most regards, my heart rate is stable, and no more dizzies all the time, or an irregular pulse. BUT, and a really big BUT. I have acquired skin cancer. Not just any skin cancer, but Merkle Cell Carcinoma. This is the stuff that killed Jimmy Buffett. Survival rate if you live 3 years with it is 50%, even after 3 years, 5 years, 10 years your odds for an additional 3 are 50%. Currently I have a baseball sized ditch in my left arm, from the first surgery. Now less than a year later, well it's back, and has been for 4 months, I have anther site on my left wrist, and surgery is next Tuesday. So my recurrence was fast, not a good sign. For this stuff my smoking wasn't a problem, just sun exposure, and for all of you older guys you will know when I say SPF has only meant something for the last 10 years or so. So most of us Boomers with it, didn't know there was something we should have been doing, but heck a tan was a sign of good health, vim, vigor, and all that stuff. Not of impending death.
I missed the call when my body was screaming protect me, on that one. Well nobody bats 1000. :-)
For me the "strange" part did occur though, it was the huge wormlike growth growing out of my elbow site, that was a certain, uhhhhhh hey Doc, WTF is that????
