
Tell HN: Yesterday I found out I have skin cancer23 days ago, this story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43917855 was posted on HN. As a 43 year old, I enjoyed skimming the comments and relating to all the various things that start popping up as we get older.This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43918368 however, just jumped off the screen at me:"My skin, with the help of the sun, has twice tried to -KILL- me."For whatever reason, that specific phrasing just stopped me in my tracks and stuck with me a few days. I even bookmarked it.I have lived in Southern California and now Arizona for close to twenty years, and like an idiot I've never taken sun protection seriously. I noticed some new spots on my face over the past few years, and just chalked it up to aging or dry skin from the desert climate. But after reading that comment and thinking about the possibility of those spots being out to murder me, I finally decided to visit the dermatologist for the first time in my life.The dermatologist took two biopsies and sent
