BBCA woman from Guernsey has urged people to “live for today” after surviving a skin cancer scare.
Suzanne Lucas noticed a reoccurring lump on her foot, which was initially treat as a verruca, and was even frozen three times by her doctor, yet it kept coming back.
She spent a number of years trying to find an answer until she was referred to a specialist who sent her for treatment in Southampton a few weeks later.
Ms Lucas is now urging people to apply sun cream when heading out in the heat.
“I was in Southampton and they took a chunk of my foot away.
“They then put in artificial padding and then I had to have a skin graft a few weeks later as well – most of last year was spent with my foot up.
“All the years I’ve been to the beach I don’t think I’ve ever put sun cream on the bottom of my feet – you just don’t think about it.”
Cancer free
She added: “Touch wood, I now seem to be cancer free and good to go.
“It makes you feel you have to live for today and do what you have to do.”
She said she had given up her job because she did not know how long treatment would take as well as healing, “but now I get my pension and I’m retired”.
“All I’d say is live for today and apply sun cream.”
This story is part of BBC Guernsey’s Sun Safety Campaign.
