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Personal lessons on dangers of sun tanning.
I wish I knew what made my aunt Edith be in the sun for such long hours. I do know I remember, to my eyes as girl under the age of ten, how leathery her skin looked. Our love for each other was sincere and deep. She could never give birth to children since her ovaries were removed. Her husband, Uncle Harry, and her treated my slightly older sister, Roslyn and I like we were her kids.
She was our second mom. Our real mother was her sister and she had no problems with a second mother. She knew she would forever be our first. From practically the very start I knew there was a connection between the sun and Aunt Edee's skin. She and her spouse would walk miles in the burning sun playing golf. They were quite good at the game. There was a good size mantel piece with dozens of earned golf trophies. However looking back decades later, my question is at what price? Even when I was little I've seen photographs of my aunt when she was in her twenties and even in her thirties. I'm not saying she would be a beauty contest winner. However her hair was the color Kansas wheat and her eyes were as blue as the tropical seas, where Harry and her frequently visited. Her body was slim as well.
Her friends thought she resmebled the Swedish actress, Mai Britt with her Scandinavian hued blonde hair, blue eyes. While, of course its true, unfortunately its not unusual for skin to wrinkle. The woman's skin was far more wrinkly than what was normal for her age. She was in her forties. It was true too, that at my age then I thought anyone over 41 was practically ancient. Now in retrospect I realize that mom's sister was way too young for such wizened skin texture. It was certainly the sun that did it. That is it ruined her skin. Plus it was not putting on sun screen and/or sun block SPF 15 or higher. On the other hand only sun tanning lotion was around back then. So it was a combination of the unavailability of effective sun protection and long hours in the hot sun. So I know from learning from my aunt, the damage the sun can do, including specifically how damaging tanning can be, if its laying in the sun, or taking long walks in it.
The results can be the same. That is, skin that can be permanately damaged, looking way too old before its time and the very strong possibility of carcinoma of the skin. My aunt Edee was lucky. She never developed skin cancer. Sadly my cousin, Deborah (Debbie) via too much and too lengthy exposure to the sun succombed to skin cancer. My final thoughts are I know from two of my relatives the danger of too much sun tanning. I miss them both and I hope I helped others learn from them.
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This intel was contributed by mugwort
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