The last few months that I spent in Australia, the government was trying to raise awareness on the dangers of melanoma. One of the ads featured this young asian girl who has been suffering from skin cancer for the last four years. Sadly she passed away last year at the age of 26. When the ad aired on tv, she had already passed on.
I always thought that white people, people with fair skin are more susceptible to melanoma but this girl - she's young, she's asian and she loves the sun. Struck a core in me cuz I see some similarities there with myself. Then I figured that it's probably the Australian sun. We've got a nice healthy ozone layer over Singapore. No worries.
Then yesterday I read an article in the papers about melanoma. Oh boy. It's everywhere now! I think I had a little panic attack. All those times when I went to the beach, went diving, went under the sun without any sunscreen on came back to haunt me. Oh no! Went over every inch of my skin and found TWO new bumps on my shoulders! I always tend to burn my shoulders whenever I'm under the sun. Oh boy oh boy oh boy! That little panic attack soon escalated to a major freakout session.
Bumps. Moles. Pigmented. Melanoma! Oh no!
So I've set up a full medical examination next week and I'm definitely get those two moles on my shoulders examined. Argh!
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