Fitness guru opens up about his battle with skin cancer after a decade of retreat from the public eye.
From the public eye, having retreated from the spotlight for over a decade, making his last public appearance in February 2014. Since then, the fitness guru , 75, has maintained a stream of updates through his Facebook page, recently creating major buzz with a statement mistakenly leading fans to believe he was "dying." "Mirror mirror on the wall, what's that blemish which is so small?" he mused at the start. "There was this strange looking bump under my right eye.
I had a tube of neosporin which I would put on the morning and the evening….it was still there. It was time to call my dermatologist." After a visit to the dermatologist, and getting a few skin cells scraped to test, he continued: "He comes back about 20 minutes later and says the C word. You have cancer. I asked him what kind of cancer and he said Basal Cell Carcinoma. I told him to stop calling me dirty names. He laughed." Richard joked that he was recommended botox in his forehead and for his smile lines, but simply responded "Not today, doctor" and left."When I got home I called Dr. Ralph A. Massey who was from England. I waited in his waiting room and said hello to all of these people who had skin cancer as well. I was shocked to see all of the skin cancers that they ha
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