A Pretty Serious Health/Life Update

all right team so today I thought I'd do more of like a chill out sort of Life Update Style video where I talk about what's been going on recently I've had a few issues with my health that could be potentially quite serious so I thought I'd go over that in a video just to keep everybody updated so no one gets any misinformation but the gist of things is I just want to have a little update and just have a little chat with the guys and talk to you guys about what I plan to do for skateboarding in this next year what my situation with my health is at the minute so with all that being said let's start off with the year plans now the yearly plans are simple we're flying to Amsterdam in about 5 days from now we're going to start filming the street part at the moment my health is on the outside completely fine but I had a slight issue about a few months ago because and by the way this is going to give you a great lesson to learn always wear sunscreen because when I was traveling around last year throughout the summer all this that and the other I always went out and every time I would use sunscreen it would just give me a terrible sunburn so I never used it right and then at the end of the summer a spot showed up on my face which is this spot right here you can't see it extremely well on the camera but it's been there for about five six months at this point and at that point I was like okay cool going to do a bit of Googling try and find out what it is which bear in mind you know how that leads right basically everywhere you look on Google will tell you you've got some form of cancer and that you're going to die in 3 months but don't worry it's not quite that drastic however when I went to the doctors for it they had a little look at it didn't really do much at all and it's worth noting as well I had this lump on my throat like right here you can't see it again very well on the camera but it sticks out quite a lot in person and the two Associated could be quite severe if it's if the two are associated the doctor first off told me when I went to my first appointment that the two aren't Associated which is good you could either have melanoma or basil cell carcinoma which is the two things they told me I could potentially have the first one melanoma is the more dangerous version they're both skin cancers but melanoma is a lot more dangerous for metastasizing different tumors as opposed to Basil cell carcinoma which is a fairly if not the lightest version of cancer you can get it's basically diet cancer and what they do for that one is when the spots show up they can just whip them off take a bit of the skin out so it doesn't keep growing underneath but rarely rarely ever will they ever metastasize into tumors melanoma is a bit more dangerous it has a slightly lower life expectancy rate but again it's the same sort of thing lumps and bumps appear on the skin you go to the hospital they remove it but it does have a slightly higher chance of becoming like a tumor on the inside or whatever but anyway I had this appointment they told me it could be one or the other so she was like right we're going to give you an x-ray for your chest because that could potentially figure out where this like lump in my throat is coming from alongside the spot so I got up to the I switch Hospital right which bear in mind is an hour from where I live I had to take a day off work Holly had to take a day off work so already we're out two shifts right we go up to hospital wait there for an hour get sat down get put into the gowns for the X-ray all that all the standard Hospital procedure stuff we then sit down a doctor comes around the corner and walks up to me and goes so are you here for an x-ray and I was like yeah I've got the text here that says I should be here for an x-ray at this time to which he says to me the doctor that saw you first I don't think she really had any idea what she was talking about because you shouldn't be here for a check chest x-ray you should be here for an ultrasound so already we've had two shifts wasted I'm I'm worried and boooking out about if I've got cancer or not and this doctor is sending me to the wrong place wasting days of time when if this was a real serious situation that could have been a real hiccup in the treatment process but anyway so I leave I get a phone call they say right we want to come to we want you to come to the Dermatology apartment so we can look at the spot in your face I do that I get there I explain what the doctor in L which is where I originally went told me they told me that it's not melan M they would put all their money on it not being melanoma which is cool that's a good thing right still don't know what the lump on my throat is about but the spot they've pretty much told me that it's almost anything but confirmed that it's basil cell carcinoma which is still a version of cancer but it's very very light version of cancer and I've not had the full diagnosis yet but this is what the two other doctors that I've seen most recently told me that they believe it is now I've still got to go and have checkups to find out what this lump is in my throat because I've been getting like chest pains and headaches a little bit as well so it's been quite a stressful situation when you've been told that you might have multiple types of cancer and then online it says like if this thing is associated with the spot it could be a really deadly type of cancer so my God has it been a stressful couple of weeks but anyway I'm still keeping up with the content schedule I'm still planning on uploading something every day for the foreseeable future even dur while we're in Amsterdam I'm going to do a bulkload of filming and while I'm there Holly's going to batch edit and get them up while I get to work on the street part starting in Amsterdam this year after that I think we're going to travel around a few other places but to be honest it's all dependent on how this health situation goes and by the way the one lesson you can take away from this they told me that this whole situation could have been avoided if I just wore skin sunare cream all the time so if you're out in Sun wherever it may be do not be an idiot like me and think you're invulnerable because trust me it will catch up to you and for me it certainly has and I and you best believe that I'm not going to be forgetting Sun cream anytime soon other than that my foot is almost completely better I would say it's like 99.9% fine but every time I land a bit dodgy on a trick it does hurt other than that the health situation is okay like apart from the worry and stress which I think is the main thing about like these kind of diagnosis it's just sitting there wondering what you've got I think for me personally if they were like okay right you've got this you've got even if they told me I've got a couple years to live I would be fine with that at least I know what's going on and I can deal with that as it comes as opposed to something like this where I'm like do I have this do I have not and then even then in the back of my mind because they're messing up so much already I'm thinking they could even be wrong and I could have like one of the worst ones and just becomes a negative feedback loop of you're telling yourself you're iller than you are you start to feel things in weird places anyway I'm ranting basically the gist of things are is I'm all right for now I will give you guys an information update once I know more as soon as I get this official diagnosis fingers crossed it is basil cell carcinoma so it is cancer but it's a very very minor form of cancer so we should be all right and the plans for this year's skateboarding should be going ahead completely as planned but I felt like I should give you guys an update on the whole situation that's pretty much it love and I'll see you soon