For a moment there I thought I was having another hot flash but looked
over at the YoWindow display on my Acer monitor and discovered it IS 86 degrees out there and that ambient light is actual sunlight.
If three of the medications I am taking didn’t have the explicit warning to “AVOID EXPOSURE TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT” and there was any hair left on my head, I might be inclined to go outside.
Anyone who knows me would say that would be a stretch even before this whole Lymphoma thing started.
I will admit, it has always been my policy not to go to the beach. If I do find myself at the beach it is never without an umbrella of any size and a hat with a sizable brim. 
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It was when I was this size and wearing that bathing suit, I was left to sleep on a blanket at Rye Beach in upstate New York. It was under an umbrella but either the sun or I moved allowing my legs to be out in the sun for quite a while.
Look at those legs! Should they be exposed for any length of time to solar radiation???
Sun Poisoning or Photodermatitis is what they called it. Noxzema is what they put on it. As I know now, cold water would’ve been a better treatment. Let’s just say, these legs do not now, nor will they ever, be exposed to the sun for ANY length of time.
TMI, I know, but it’s Sunday afternoon & I’ve some time on my hand while Stephen Fry tweets his way from Heathrow to his London flat.
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