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This week I had a mole checked on my leg and my doctor quickly agreed it should be removed. While I contemplated the anxiety of what that could mean I did not sit there wondering which day it was that I got sunburned which caused the corruption of a cell that has started to turn the mole abnormal.
Was it from the time I spent summers working as a fruit-picker during university? Or those many afternoons down on the banks of the River Murray swimming with friends during high school? Was it the time I got absolutely burned to a crisp on an overcast day holidaying on the Gold Coast in my early 20s?
We don’t ask this because it is in essence unanswerable, but we also know that – as the advert says – every tan is doing you damage. And I know that my lack of care during my youth while out in the sun is the reason I am going to get the mole removed (and hopefully will not require much more surgery after that).
Read the stray from The Guardian by Greg Jericho - “Don’t politicise the bushfires? The alternative is to sit back while more severe events happen.”
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