on Tanning Beds Are As Dangerous As Arsenic! at 07:11 07/30/2009 as a reply on the comment by AshPashZ

My heart aches for you all. Are you getting treatment? Where? I am all too familiar with this (see my earlier posts) Prayers to you all

on Tanning Beds Are As Dangerous As Arsenic! at 21:20 07/29/2009 as a reply on the comment by MileyCyrusLooksLikeAChipmunk

Yes, he did have a mole that began to change. Major ironic plot twist? He was in med school when it surfaced. We have been together half of our lives -- 19 years. I noticed the mole changing and urged him to get to the doc to be checked out. They removed it, and he did a year on interferon treatment, and was cancer free for nearly 6 years. Then on May 26 we got the news. That was 3 days after he had run a 10K race without knowing he had a huge mass in his lung. On two levels, I hope this story sheds some light to those young ones out there. Please, PLEASE do not take your health for granted, and if you choose not to use sunscreen yourself, at the very least, slap it on those you love.

on Tanning Beds Are As Dangerous As Arsenic! at 20:23 07/29/2009

As I watch my 38 year old husband, and father of my three children age 8, 4, and 2 battle stage 4 malignant melanoma, I am thrilled that the news about the danger of tanning beds is being circulated. What makes this most upsetting is that melanoma has the HIGHEST cancer death rate in women aged 20-25. This is no joke, and neither is the sun. I get my tan the way every fair-skinned, Irish girl should; from a BOTTLE.

on Marcia Cross' Twins, Protected! at 22:46 07/06/2009

thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU for reminding people of the importance of sunscreen. I am typing this while living in Houston so that my 38 year husband, the father of our kids 8, 4, and 2 years old, can receive treatment for his stage IV recurrent melanoma at MD Anderson. Skip the rays and opt for spray tan if you must. Don't ever take the sun, or your health, for granted. "A little color" is not worth it!!