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But first, another visit to the dermatologist:\u00a0seven new freeze blisters on my face plus a bloody spot\u00a0below my eye where he cut out\u00a0a divot to send for a biopsy.\u00a0It’ll likely turn out to be a basal cell skin cancer and have to be cut out. More stitches, another scar. This will be number six. So far they’ve all been on my face or scalp, never anywhere else on my body, and we always check. So there’s that.<\/p>\n

My father had several skin cancers removed during his life, and now my younger sisters are beginning to experience the same thing. Donna, like us, is fair-skinned, and she just got a call from her dermatologist: a sample they cut off the tip of her nose last week turned out to be skin cancer and she has to go in to have it cut out. Her dermatologist is sending her to a plastic surgeon, though, so she probably won’t be showing a scar. Meanwhile, I’m walking around looking like some seatbelt scofflaw who’s been through the windshield once or twice.<\/p>\n

All this panic over Ebola. I hope my previous post<\/a> didn’t sound panicky; I wasn’t so much concerned about\u00a0the disease as with\u00a0the human propensity to ignore or actively sabotage\u00a0preventive procedures meant to keep such diseases out of the USA. Or maybe there weren’t any preventive procedures. It’s beginning to look that way, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Anyway, have we forgotten about AIDS? For the first few decades, AIDS had a 100% mortality rate. Compared to that, Ebola is weak tea. And how about TB? The only cure for TB, back in my mother’s day, was to go to a sanitorium and hope you got better. And contagious? I’m 67 years old and they still<\/em> test me for TB every year just because my mother had it when I was four years old.\u00a0There are lots of things\u00a0more panic-worthy than Ebola.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there’s a racist ooga-booga element to the Ebola scare, and I\u00a0don’t expect the panic to die down anytime soon.<\/p>\n

On to happier things: suddenly it’s nice outside and we can open the windows and turn off the air conditioner.\u00a0Last night I actually had to close the sliding glass doors in our bedroom and living room because the air coming in was too cold. Luxury!<\/p>\n

And here is possibly the happiest thing of all: doggie drive-thru!
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\nClick on the images to see ’em full sized on Flickr. And don’t say that didn’t cheer you up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But first, another visit to the dermatologist:\u00a0seven new freeze blisters on my face plus a bloody spot\u00a0below my eye where he cut out\u00a0a divot to send for a biopsy.\u00a0It’ll likely turn out to be a basal cell skin cancer and have to be cut out. More stitches, another scar. This will be number six. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,16,2,1601],"tags":[871,1677,1679],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-current-events","category-media","category-personal","category-photoblogging","tag-dogs","tag-ebola","tag-panic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15420,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}