Ice skating party, 1/28

Please join us for some wintertime fun, outdoors on Sunday late afternoon/early evening, January 28 from 5:30-7:30pm at the Winter Lodge, 3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. This will be a child-friendly (encouraged) event. We'll provide cider, cocoa, cheese and crackers and patgreene's brownies (any potluck contributions of other food or drink are welcome, but not necessary), and cheery people gliding around in their winter outerwear... I'll cover admissions and skate rental for RSVPs before 1/24 (free for non-skaters, in any case).

[Poll #909177]

No, it isn't measles...

I went to the dermatologist today for a follow-up... being middle-aged and a redhead with pale skin, inevitably I'm prone to keratoses (precancerous small rough patches) which I get occasionally burned away with LN2. Today, I'm getting a different treatment... I've been doused in some amino acid, told to wait 3 hours, and then will get irradiated with blue-spectrum and UV light. Which will blister and burn the latent keratoses under the skin that haven't appeared yet. Sort of like getting 5 year's worth, all zapped at once. The downside is pain, and that I may look raccoon-like or like I have measles, until these heal and the skin peels in a week or two.

And some women apparently *volunteer* to have this procedure done as a way to peel away wrinkles... (scratches head). Still, I may be reclusive or cranky for a few days.

Otherwise... I took Kevin in this morning with me. He had a suspicious 4mm mole behind his ear biopsied, and he was nervous about the procedure and needles. But he was brave, and didn't faint, even when they cauterized the spot afterwards and he could smell the smoke...

sweet support :)

Yeah, the photodynamic skin therapy today was unpleasant... 16 minutes of bright blue through closed eyelids, feeling heat on my face and scalp and with stabbing needle-like sensations while I sat there in the machine. Afterwards, it has felt like a bad sunburn, with some blotchiness. Still, way better than possibly getting skin cancer in ten years.

But I'm touched and happy by my support... tenacious_snail lent her apartment as a kid-free quiet place to lay down and rest, afterwards... cyan_blue moved our scheduled lunch date from the East Bay to nearby, and picked up takeout food to bring back for me to said apartment... and patgreene went out and bought topical lotions for the pain and swelling, and quietly left them for me outside while I was having lunch with Geri. Awww... :D.