Trust Me on this one - USE SUNSCREEN

If you're a bit squeamish, you may not want to view the picture further down the page. I don't think it's that bad, but you never know. I'd hate for someone to lose their lunch on their keyboard.

About 3 years ago, I was installing an attic staircase in the garage, and Grammy was holding it in place while I was securing it in place from below. She thought I was done and let go. I wasn't done, and caught it with my head. No big deal, just a scratch that healed in a few days. But then about a month later, it seemed to open up again and over the course of the next few years it never fully healed. Most of the time it was just a small indentation in my forehead about the size of a pinhead and occaisionally it would bleed. Finally, when I went to a dermatologist about something else on my arm, I asked him to take a look at my forehead. He said the arm was fine, but that I had a Basal Cell Carcinoma on my forehead caused by too much sun over the years. Then he said, "but if you're gonna get cancer, this is the kind to get, because it doesn't spread out of the skin and it won't kill you". He then recommended that I have it excised or it could get larger and cause some permanent disfigurement

Hence, my trip to the plastic surgeon last October who confirmed the Demetologist's diagnosis and after numbing my head (Grammy might argue that I was already a numbskull) started cutting, and cutting , and cutting and lasering, and cutting. Apparently it was larger than it appeared on the surface. When I got home I looked like this:

Move over Harry Potter, there's a new Wizard in town:



But, not to worry, the surgeon said it would heal just fine and in 6 months to a year it would be almost invisible. And now four months later I see that he was right:



So, folks, take my advice and WEAR SUNSCREEN, or better yet, BIG HATS!!!

Tune in tomorrow when Papa and Grammy's true identities will be revealed (don't you just love a little suspense? I'm sure you can hardly wait.)