Frank Reid wrote:

We spend a lot of time outdoors. We wear baseball caps, bandanas, and,
occasionally, a broad brim hat. Well, I'm paying for it.
Right now, I'm on something called Efudex. Been smearing this cream on
for 5 days and I look like a zombie outta the night of the living dead.
My face is covered with red blotches that will turn into sores. It
feels like its been hit by a cheese grater. Face is swollen like a
rotting corpse. I'll be on pain killers soon. I've got at least 2 and
1/2 more weeks on the stuff, could be as much as 4 and 1/2. Hopefully,
it will get all of the cancerous and pre-cancerous cells. Hopefully.
Wear a broad brimmed hat, SPF 300 cream (multi spectral), sun gloves,
long sleeved shirts. Get checked by your dermatologist annually. Be
mindful when you go outside before your only view of outside is through
a hospital window.
Frank Reid

Best wishes for a quick and complete recovery. And good advice.

Scary stuff skin cancer....

My father, a long time fisherman and radio control model airplaner, wore
a baseball cap on his outings and ended up losing part of his ear to
basal cell carcinoma. Fortunately it was caught early enough to have
not developed into something worse. He's still going strong at 84 and
loves fishing the Russian River and Montana Creek, neither of which is
far from his home in Anchorage. Wears the ugliest hat for protection
and greases up with sunscreen.

IIRC, Curt Gowdy had a bout with skin cancer and always recommended a
hat and heavy sunscreen. I'm not sure whether he attrributed his
leukemia to his life outdoors, but he eventually lost his long battle
with cancer a few months ago. But he was active throughout his life
including those years he was being treated and held on to a long life
into his mid-80s.

I hope we all can last as long as these two gentlemen.