The perils of baseball caps

Back again, almost three years to the day.

The Efudix as predicted was not totally successful. I suffered none of the monstrous disfigurement I feared in my wild imaginings. One small spot disappeared and has stayed disappeared--hurrah--but I was left with three red patches on my nose.

My nose changed shape and the bone was more-than-sensitive. The only happy outcome was losing a stone in weight as I could not eat chocolate or sweets without feeling ill. 

"These will go in time," said my consultant airily studying the patches with an air of surprise. The obvious conclusion drawn by someone who predicted 100% success. Sadly they did not go and now three years later, they are larger so back to the medical center.

This time I am not sent to the consultant. We are going to try a combination of cryosurgery and Solaraze. "Not so toxic," says the doctor cheerfully although the warning signs are there.

"Be careful," warned the pharmacist. "Don't use on unaffected skin." I'll be applying it with a pin-head, then.

" ....hmmm didn't realise you had to carry on the treatment for three months..." murmured the doctor.


Hmmm indeed, compounded by the fact that I seem to have every problem the instruction leaflet warns against. High blood pressure: tick...don't remember the others as I threw the leaflet away or I'd never have started.

 Now on Day Two. As usual already looking worse not better.

The Perils of Baseball Caps

I have had it drummed into me ad nauseam, so much so that I do feel physically ill if I find myself outside even at night without my baseball cap. Not a drop of sunlight must hit my poor face while I'm undergoing this treatment.

So far today I have stood on a hen, walked in to a string fence and from experience I know it is only a matter of time before I concuss myself by battering my head against a closed top door as I limbo in and out of the stables.


Baseball caps certainly restrict the sun but more lethally they restrict vision  to danger levels. No more will I scoff at senior citizens in baseball caps. Anyone in a baseball cap must be in extremis.