Just got news from home that grandma is not doing too well, again. Her health has been deteriorating every week. Well, with skin cancer, it could only get worse. She was diagnosed with the disease in the first half of last year. Melanotic melanoma. From what we were told by the oncologists, it's one of the rarest forms of skin cancer and does not respond to radiation nor chemotherapy treatments.
My parents are worrying for me, so am I actually. You know, about the hereditary part. As much as I've been denying it, it remains a fact that I have fair skin, just like grandma. Not so much to be jealous of (or proud about) when I have someone in the family who has skin cancer, does it now? And to know that Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer, and that Perth is the country's sunniest city doesn't make it any easier. Leaves me no excuse to not adapt to the SunSmart behaviour.
My parents are worrying for me, so am I actually. You know, about the hereditary part. As much as I've been denying it, it remains a fact that I have fair skin, just like grandma. Not so much to be jealous of (or proud about) when I have someone in the family who has skin cancer, does it now? And to know that Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer, and that Perth is the country's sunniest city doesn't make it any easier. Leaves me no excuse to not adapt to the SunSmart behaviour.
I know it's wrong to say this, but it haunts me to think that this summer might be the very last time I see my grandmother; that is, if I even make it home in time...
1 Strikes:
hope your grandma'll get through this, and live long to see you get cute little Vinnies! =)
in the meantime, start taking care of your skin.. australia's a pretty cloudless country, so sunlight radiation is quite direct.. so pile up on the sunblock!
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