I’m kind of horrified at the amount of people reblogging the sunscreen poll saying that they flat out refuse to wear sunscreen??? I completely understand that some people have sensory issues with it and I know that it’s a pain in the ass and I know it can be expensive but holy melanoma you guys, skin cancer is no joke. It’s one of the most common types of cancer and it can absolutely be deadly if not caught early. And it’s something we can actually take fairly easy preventative measures against.

So please, for you own sake and those who love you, wear sunscreen or cover up in the sun. It doesn’t matter if you don’t tend to burn or if you have dark skin - you can still develop skin cancer (in fact, darker skinned patients are more likely to only be diagnosed in the later stages of skin cancer because many doctors don’t know how to properly check and diagnose skin cancer in dark skin). Wear the stupid sunscreen. Or the sun hat or whatever, even on days that don’t feel particularly warm. Minimise your time in direct sun if you can and have no other options. Check out sunscreens in your country that don’t leave a gross feeling on your skin, they do make some good ones now. If you wear makeup, make it part of your daily routine - sunscreen, then makeup. Everybody messes up or forgets on occasion but any step towards protecting yourself is a good step. Take care of future you, they really do deserve it.

Okay, getting off my soapbox now. Kindly, someone who has had both friends and family affected by skin cancer.

Getting a skin cancer diagnosis sure wasnt on my new years bucket list…

Inspired

sketch from the lab : ORL

i remember my mum telling me men can’t get breast cancer, because i didn’t know any better.

i remember my mum telling me women have babies regardless of whether they have sex or not, to scare me when i first admitted i don’t want children.

i remember my mum telling me men cannot get STDs, despite the AIDS crisis.

i remember my mum telling me that if i kept picking at scabs and such, i’d get scars, then nobody would love me because nobody finds scars attractive.

i remember my mum telling me if i keep eating ‘the way i do’, i’ll gain too much weight, and again, nobody would love me.

never. EVER. lie to your children about serious medical issues and similar dangers in today’s society just to make them conform to your ideals. it is never fucking okay.

men can get breast cancer. men can get STDs. men can get abused. men can get raped, plus without ‘asking for it’. women are not required to reproduce. scars do not make you less attractive. weight does not make you less attractive.

i could go on, but we’d be here for a long time. my point; do. not. tell. cruel. lies. to. your. children. it is sick, and twisted, and disgusting.

if that angers you, DNI.

tws in the tags

my skin picking issues have gotten really bad recently and i think that its because ive kinda had like this sudden wave of grief just coming at me from out of no where and its really stressing me out. i dont even know what triggered it but ive just been feeling the absence of people i have lost so much recently which is causing me to wash my hands more often (something i do when im greiving i dont know why) which is making my skin really dry and now the skin on my knuckles keeps splitting open and then i pick at the scabs and its just a really painful cycle but i cant stop and i dont really know what to do

i usually have it under control but i have bitten my nails so short that there is literally nothing left to bite and ive started chewing on my shirts. i am just so angry that i just let myself do shit like this. like its not gonna help. washing my hands isnt gonna bring them back. its not gonna magically wash away the cancer and have my grampa and my uncle in my life again, its not gonna wash away this curse that i have that apparently makes my best friends parents kill themselves. first carrie, now scott. and then the friends seem to pick up on it and dont want to be around me anymore.

:(

Welp time to eat and shower and get ready to get my fuckin mole biopsy. Literally pray for me/keep me in ur thoughts I am sooo stressed.

Guess its' my turn to have a cancer scare, huh?

Just found out my stepdad has cancer :))))))) awesome amazing and incredible I love how stressful this week has been

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I have an emergency appointment tomorrow at 7am to see my obgyn because my mom is worried I have inflammatory breast cancer :(

the first sign that I was trans as a kid really should have been the moment I learned that cancer ran in my family as a "family curse" where every family member would die of a different kind of cancer, and I was hoping that I would get breast cancer so I'd have a reason to chop my boobs off

enrique and takuya getting their face moles removed .. skin cancer awareness icons

This is gonna be a medical update so read with caution.

I had a derm appointment two days ago to go over the results of a biopsy I had done several months ago (before I moved which is why it took so long to go over the results - had to get scheduled with a derm and all that jazz) Anyway, turns out that I have a type of melanoma in situ. Which means I have a type of melanoma that is just on the surface of my skin and hasn't metastasized to deeper layers of my skin or other organs. Which is good, and at the same time, I also just kinda like....just got diagnosed with skin cancer. ✌️ I don't think I've quite processed all of that yet. I'm going to have a small procedure done to remove the surrounding area of skin to hopefully avoid the spread of the cancer, which is gonna suck but I'm just glad that I noticed the spot and took initiative to have it get checked. I'm going to have to have frequent skin checks now, and already have some spots that we're keeping a closer eye on. I dunno. 🤷 it just all feels pretty surreal. Anyway, on another subject since I'm posting medical things, I also got my first bone density scan done, which was fine - the scan, don't know the results yet - because I might also have osteoporosis or at least osteopenenia (sp?) So that's just another thing to add to my list of things to be stressed about. Okay, that's all for now.