Re: OT Not everyone eschews older viewers

In rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:02:23 -0500 in Msg.#
<54ednULpo4en4aranZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dana Carpender
<dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How about if you want the sun exposure? I know we've been told to
feeeeeaaaaar the sun, and either cover up or wear SPF 473 every time we
set foot out of the house, but I don't buy it. There's considerable
evidence that sun exposure (without burning) is healthful. Some
researchers now suspect that for every case of skin cancer we're
preventing, we're causing ten cases of prostate, breast and colon cancer
from vitamin D deficiency.

I sit in the sun for an hour every morning that the weather permits,
because I have a sleep disorder for which sun exposure is very helpful.
And I expose as much skin as the temperature allows, though I do keep
some clothing on, even on hot days.

Well, I will only say that I hope you do so fairly early in the morning, and
I say that without knowing diddly about your coloring, since you really
can't tell that from pictures. And, I say that as someone who had to have
surgery 3 times & reconstructive surgery annually for several years after
that due to malignant melanoma at the age of 28.

Yes, I am as fair as fair can be. And, I think it's totally obnoxious that
so many people have for so long tried to make it some kind of illness to be
naturally pale. I don't know where the American Indian portion of my
heritage decided to go when it comes to my looks, eyes, coloring (or some
would say lack of) and pigmentation, but SPF is a necessity to me.

I'm a mix of American Indian, English, German and Scottish, blue eyed, fair
with a tendency toward reddish tones, already have osteoporosis, and that
American Indian genetics is apparently hiding out somewhere, while petite
fair female tendencies win the day. I was a cornfield yellow or lighter
blonde as a young child, and as a young child I was completely free of any
blemish, no mole, no freckle, no birth mark. By adulthood, though, I had
brown hair & many moles, a few freckles. As a child, just during normal
ordinary time playing outside in the South, I would burn. Sometimes I would
burn on top of a burn. Oh, and since adulthood, I've had hideous problems
with glare. I think I may BE a patterned stereotype. LOL

I welcome the fact that the SPF products have been created. Sure, I find it
a pain to try to make sure I always have SPF on, but I am not ready to be
dead. And, I don't want to suffer through hideous cancer on the way out,
either.

But, I agree that vitamin deficiency due to a lack of 'good' sun exposure
(when during the day & for how long & how near a reflective surface, how
intense the sun is where they live) is a real problem. However, I do believe
that we all have individualized body clocks of sun exposure & that it is all
cumulative, so people should also be aware of how much sun they've gotten in
the past. If they were ever a sun worshipper, it may catch up with them
years later.

If people understand their skin & what happens to it, if they have been
completely evaluated for all moles, freckles, etc., and if they are super
careful not to burn, then they can do more in the sun than some others can,
and are only risking the drying out, thinning & wrinkling of their skin
*earlier* by getting more sun.

If I didn't hate mornings so, ... that would be an excellent time for sun
for me, I guess.

And, oh, yes, if you have anything going on with your skin, see a doctor. It
might not be any kind of skin cancer. Or it might simply be basal cell,
which is easy to fix. Most people aren't going to have malignant melanomas.
That's just statistics.

This ends the Gospel of Donna's Skin Cancer.

--
DonnaB shallotpeel

"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true." - Bayard Rustin
.

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