Have you had a skin cancer check lately? If that answer is no, there’s a free skin cancer check event happening in Rockford soon that you need to put on your calendar.
The Importance of Skin Cancer Checks
If you had asked me years ago how important it was to get my skin checked every year, I probably would have said, “It’s probably something I should do eventually,” which is pretty ridiculous coming from a pasty, strawberry-blond-headed woman.
I’ve had more bad sunburns than I care to admit, although I have always known skin cancer is a serious thing. I guess I thought I was too young to worry about skin cancer, and I never treated yearly checks as a priority… until I had a suspicious skin cancer spot removed from my body.
There is something about hearing the words “this spot needs to come off” that makes you look at your skin a little differently…