Very important, something you probably wouldn't even give thought to up north:
Make an appointment to establish a patient/doctor relationship with a dermatologist, and have an initial full body skin exam with him/her.
If there are no biopsies needed, or any biopsies come back as nothing concerning (like just a pigmented keratosis), then go back for an annual skin checkup with that doctor, every year without fail. For the rest of your life.
I had ZERO suspicious anythings back in Connecticut, I'd been to the dermatologist and they didn't even do a biopsy. I've been in The Villages for over four years now. Within the last two years, I've had two malignant melanomas removed, radiation to kill a basal cell carcinoma, a "severe dysplasia" abnormal growth removed, and I'll be having another one of those taken off my nose next month - with another TWO suspicious growths that we have to watch every 3 months for at least the next two years.
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