afraid of skin cancer

I just looked at all my sun damage and premature aging and realized I am going to get cancer and look like shit when I get old if I keep tanning. I am cancelling my membership tommorow. It never clicked that being really fair and tanning almost everyday is a combo for skin cancer. I can't believe how much sun damage my body has. I have permanent tan lines that never change. This is wrong man. What's wrong with my priorities. i swear it's this county, bad for your brain and your soul.

 

I was talking to Chris on the phone the other week about an article I read about how if you have one or two blisters from the sun growing up your risk of the deadlist type of skin cancer goes up by an insane percentage.... I forget what but it's high and having just three sunburns ever it goes up by 30 percent or something. I'm not sure of the numbers and I'm too lazy to look them up right now but it's outragerous.

It seems like when we were growing up they didn't know just how dangerous the sun was.... mad people were still laying out in baby oil and nowdays it seems the risk is more known but who knows what some of us will have to deal with later from when we were small kids.

I've had a couple CRAZY, HUGE blisters from burns growing up myself and I'm freckled so... Idk, the thing with skin cancer risks is you gotta watch your skin. Any changes and get to the doctor right away because skin cancer is very curable if caught early.

 

i for one welcome it...

 

Oh shit!
I got blistered up so severe one summer when I was a kid that I couldn't even stand to throw a towel over my shoulders.
I wasn't trying to tan though. Had simply spent all day out in the sun while swimming.

I remember my mom and her friends used to use baby oil mixed with iodine back then.

 

i've blistered before, nice quarter sized blisters all over my back when i was about 10 haha

i actually just bubbled up from getting burnt this past week

was planning on going to the beach today, but with it being so hot out today, i dont' think its a good idea since i'm still a bit burnt and dont' want to damage my skin moreso right now

 

I grew up in Florida and have been burnt to a crisp a million times. Mostly, we surfed at least one day a week, and a lot more if the waves were good or there was a hurricane coming. In that case, we'd stay for hours, often being swept 15 or 20 miles downshore, hitch a ride, and do it again and again. I've fried my back beyond belief more than I care to count.

 

Haha Chris.... Yeah, I'll be at my friend's pool probably tomorrow..... me pretty much staying out of the sun yesterday and today though is probably a good idea being that I'm still peeling a bit myself.

 

ive never had sun blisters or a sun burn. ive seen them and they look terribly painful. even though i have dark skin and wont burn i should still be wearing sunblock..im a slacker when it comes to that stuff

 

good for you, lyns. while i'll always talk about the emotional assistance of uv rays, i LOVE LOVE LOVE my sunblock. mind you, i'm not really all that fair skinned, though.

 

Since genetics has given me a natural tan I do not seek out the sun, I allow it to find me.




Hotwater

 

Everything in moderation. If you're still craving the tan look--sunless tanning products have gotten a lot better over the past few years. NOT that spray on mystic-tan shit either--brands from Hawaiian Tropic to Clarins have really good sunless tanners now that finally don't make you look orange; might be worth checking out.

 

I personally don't really get the whole point of tanning. I don't really think being tan makes you any more attractive than if your not tan. When I was 8 my mom had a Basil cell and I watched the skin doctor take it off it was pretty gross. Skin cancer is bad shit, you dont want it

 

given my genetic background, if i don't get enough sun, i look and feel ill. i do, in fact, look better tan. i feel better when i've gotten enough solar rays. but i'm a HUGE fan of sun block and tan in a can.

 

Tanning has two great ironies:

1) while tanning has always been associated with health and vitality, the long term effects of exposure to the sun is detrimental to overall health.

2) the darker you are, the quicker you tan


Hotwater

 

it's true. i tan so fast even under a thorough slicking up of spf 50 several times a day.

 

Genetic Background?


Are we talking Procol Harum's A whiter shade of pale here :H


Hotwater

 

nah. native american, portuguese, black irish (celtic), the white comes from the german side of my family. even the english side was heavily influenced by portuguese.

 

yea, i look much better when i get some sun...usually i'm not already this dark, but i like it...i think i'll be a beach bum until work starts

 

i'm a nice red/bronze. it looks RIGHT.

 

i get to a nice tan that makes me able to look wicked good wearing orange