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DURING show season, you may have found sunglasses among the pamphlets and information given away in goodie bags by Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the eyewear isn\u2019t just another trinket added among the pens and other ephemera. The decision to include sunglasses comes from a deeply personal experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Several years ago, Ms Chesters noticed a brown spot on her eyeball which progressively got worse.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her eye became so inflamed she kept having people come up to her asking if it was alright.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Initially, an eye specialist told her it was nothing to worry about, but\u00a0Ms Chesters said she was lucky she got a second opinion.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, she had the spot removed, and testing revealed it was a melanoma.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat prompted me, post that experience, to give out sunglasses, red sunglasses with my name on the side as a way to start a conversation,\u201d said Ms Chesters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI give out pens, but I also give out sunglasses because it\u2019s a great way for me to start a conversation about being sun-smart, particularly this summer because we know we\u2019re going to have hotter days, brighter days.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMelanoma on the actual eyeball is really rare, and so I used it as a way to help raise awareness through my own experience.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis show season, we\u2019ve handed out hundreds of sunglasses, and what I\u2019ve used it to try and do is just prompted to say how important it is that we remember to slip on our sunglasses as well as slap on a hat and slop on some sunscreen.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the first operation, Ms Chesters said she needed several more eye surgeries. She also gets regular checkups every two years to make sure the cancer hasn\u2019t returned.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I wasn\u2019t prepared for was the amount of times that I had to go back after the first surgery,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was the ongoing treatment that comes with the cancer diagnosis.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was very lucky that because it was a melanoma on the surface we could localise the treatment, where I know other people who\u2019ve been diagnosed with similar conditions haven\u2019t been so lucky.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis sun damage was done when I was little, when I was in school.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sun damage can be a ticking time bomb, you may actually have developed skin cancer when you were a kid, but it\u2019s only later in life that it manifests.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where we\u2019ve always got to be vigilant and if a spot starts to change, go see a doctor, get the referral, get it taken off if in doubt because it is about that early detection,\u201d said Ms Chesters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DURING show season, you may have found sunglasses among the pamphlets and information given away in goodie bags by Federal Member for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters.\u00a0 But the eyewear isn\u2019t just another trinket added among the pens and other ephemera. The decision to include sunglasses comes from a deeply personal experience.\u00a0 Several years ago, Ms Chesters […]<\/p>\n

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