This woman's skin cancer selfie may have helped save lives

Her post went viral and has been shared more than 100,000 times and has received nearly 9,000 reactions.

If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go!
This is what skin cancer treatment can look like. Wear sunscreen and get a spray tan. Learn from other people's mistakes. Don't let tanning prevent you from seeing your children grow up. That's my biggest fear now that I have a two year old little boy of my own.
Edited to add: To answer a few questions and comments I've seen, I did the bulk of my tanning in high school. I sometimes laid up