Wear Sunscreen, the faux commencement speech popularized by Baz Luhrman’s music video, contains some good advice, which, as the speech says, "like youth, is probably wasted on the young." The advice I am focused on today is the sunscreen advice.
The source of most skin cancers, according to my dermatologist, is sun exposure, and most of the negative exposure occurs prior to the age of 18. So parents, add sunscreen to the daily routine for children who will be playing in unprotected sunlight.
Of course, I do use my cellphone near my left ear, so I suppose the skin cancer theoretically could have been caused by cell phone use or by the gamma rays that are generated by vegetarian computer users!
In any case, I am healing well from the procedure that removed my growth last Friday. I have moved into the "Golly, that sure does itch stage." One of the disadvantages of having a skin cancer removed that is near your left ear under local anesthesia is that you get to hear everything that is happening just like you have THX sound or a set of Bose earphones.
The funkiest moment was when they were stretching the skin that would cover the 50-cent piece size wound that was left after the cancer had been cut off. I am not sure that I could ever endure a face lift, but that stretching was the wierdest feeling.
In the aftermath of the procedure I have some numbness in my scalp from nerves being dislocated from the skin they were ennervating. The doctor says that numbness should go away in time. Meanwhile, I have these itchy sensations that tend to be quite annoying.
For those of you interested, here is the Wear Sunscreen video (with Spanish subtitles):
Charlie Wear's Notes 
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