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Speaker 2: Hey, I have a bit of an update for you
Speaker 2: on well.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say a health condition, but I
Speaker 3: guess it is in a way a health condition. But
Speaker 3: I think it's a really important PSA for literally everybody
Speaker 3: listening right now. Like if you guys have been following
Speaker 3: along with me personally or the radio show or the podcast,
Speaker 3: you know, I would have spoken about it. But a
Speaker 3: few years ago, I basically like I had to burn
Speaker 3: my whole face off with this topical chemotherapy for a
Speaker 3: pre skin cancer.
Speaker 2: So I went to the doctor.
Speaker 3: About these like tiny little spots on my face, Like
Speaker 3: there were just two that I thought were funny. They
Speaker 3: wouldn't go away. One was on my lip and one
Speaker 3: was on my forehead. I'm talking like just.
Speaker 2: A bit of discoloration really, but it.
Speaker 3: Was also quite dry, and I just thought, just weird,
Speaker 3: it's not going like I was doing all the moisturizer
Speaker 3: and whatever else. And I went to my skin doctor
Speaker 3: and I ended up going through some testing, but I
Speaker 3: got diagnosed with something called solar keratosis, which a lot
Speaker 3: of you might have heard.
Speaker 2: About it's essentially called pre skin cancer.
Speaker 3: So if left can and probably will turn into a
Speaker 3: skin cancer.
Speaker 1: How do they have any idea of how long it
Speaker 1: takes to transition or is it just one of those
Speaker 1: things where you're like, it's some people, it could be years.
Speaker 1: For other people, it could just be like unlucky and.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, depends how long it's been there for. So
Speaker 3: it essentially will transition, So you need to deal with
Speaker 3: it basically, And I guess this is why it's so
Speaker 3: important to get an early diagnosis before something can spread
Speaker 3: or turn into something nasty. And so the treatment for
Speaker 3: that is what I just said. It's a topical chemotherapy.
Speaker 3: So it's this like it's so cytotoxic. You have to
Speaker 3: put gloves on, you have to specially order it, and
Speaker 3: you cover your face in it, and your whole face
Speaker 3: is like the most red, raw, burnt scab, Like it's
Speaker 3: so painful.
Speaker 2: Your whole face is basically is being killed, I guess
Speaker 2: for want of a better word.
Speaker 3: And essentially it takes a couple of weeks, it scabs over,
Speaker 3: peels off, and the idea is the bad part to
Speaker 3: go and you regenerate with nice skin again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I remember when you did it because
Speaker 1: we were on radio at the time and you were
Speaker 1: a bit like turn the cameras off, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't I want to be careful with because I
Speaker 1: think even the way you explained it then could scare
Speaker 1: people away from doing it, like it was nowhere near
Speaker 1: as bad as you probably felt like it was.
Speaker 3: Well, my update is I went back for It's been
Speaker 3: two years actually, which is probably too long.
Speaker 2: It definitely is too long. I just sort of put
Speaker 2: it off.
Speaker 3: I went back on the weekend and I have to
Speaker 3: do it again, so I have two spots again, and
Speaker 3: I have to do this whole treatment again where I
Speaker 3: have to burn my face off with this chemotherapy. So
Speaker 3: I'm I mean, we joke about me saying turn the
Speaker 3: cameras off last time, but I still went to work,
Speaker 3: I still put on my socials. I wanted to advocate
Speaker 3: for it, but I think I'm going to do it
Speaker 3: even more so this time because it's really scary and
Speaker 3: like two in three Australians are going to get skin
Speaker 3: cancer in their life.
Speaker 2: That's the stat Yeah, the stats so crazy.
Speaker 1: But also I mean, I feel like if you've grown
Speaker 1: up in Australia, if you spent anytime out in the sun,
Speaker 1: just remember to go and get checked, because like you
Speaker 1: can go and do your mole mapping these days, you
Speaker 1: can go. And it's the consistency because unless you know
Speaker 1: what's changed half.
Speaker 2: The time, you don't actually know what's wrong.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I think I grew up really just
Speaker 1: thinking that having things burn off you was pretty normal.
Speaker 1: Like my mom, my grandparents, everyone has had different skin
Speaker 1: things burn off them over the years. It's funny now
Speaker 1: looking back because it's so not normal, but it's just
Speaker 1: such a condition of being in Australia and the fact
Speaker 1: that for so long we had such a crazy tanning
Speaker 1: culture and I know some people still still subscribe to it.
Speaker 1: But we were kids of the eighties and the nineties,
Speaker 1: like we were outside hardly any sunscreen, sun baking all
Speaker 1: the time. And now it's really come out, like just
Speaker 1: how damaging that's really is for you.
Speaker 3: Part of me is like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 3: be any to do this again, But the other part
Speaker 3: of me really wants to advocate for you to go.
Speaker 2: And get a skin check.
Speaker 3: Like if this is your reminder right now, if you're
Speaker 3: in the car and you're like, oh my god, I've
Speaker 3: been putting that off for so long. Do not put
Speaker 3: it off. Go and book your appointment now. When you
Speaker 3: pull over your car, go and call. Remember to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on everything on your body. If it's changed,
Speaker 3: if it's gotten darker or drier, if it's a regular
Speaker 3: you need to go and get a check.
Speaker 2: No, I know, Bri.
Speaker 1: And that also is like the reminder I need because
Speaker 1: it's been a couple of years since I've been. And
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you're like, ah, I'll
Speaker 1: go where it happened to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean two and three probably means there's
Speaker 1: a likelihood it will happen.
Speaker 2: To you anyway.
Speaker 3: You're going to see it all play out because unfortunately
Speaker 3: we do film everything.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, guys, Well that is it from
Speaker 1: us today.