O/T: Anyone Growin' a Mo for Movember?

Sorry dude.  I read it, and as you know from Facebook I too am growing out all facial hair for awhile.  I don't know that it will do any good, but I'd feel better about myself if my older friends would bother to see a doctor and get a prostate check.  How hard can that be?  Well, if you make it too hard for yourself apparently it will kill you.  Go get a checkup.  We like you.  We'll miss you if you are not around.  So, if for no one else, at least do it for us.  The guys with scraggly facial hair.

Your state of health could just as well kill you.  Seriously, we mean it.  We like you.  Stick around for awhile.  Go see a doctor and get a checkup.  Now.

I already need to shave. However, I look like a dork in order to get your attention.  Yes, I mean YOU. 

Despite the absence of any significant head hair, otherwise I'm already a hairy bugger !

I donate generously to mens' cancer programs as my family has had it's share of dramas recently but the program is in full swing here in Australia. As part of The Relay for Life, Movember brings with it many fundraisers. I for one host an annual work trivia night late in Movember to assist in raising funds. Over the past three years we have bettered our best takings of $1000+ which for a small contracting firm with its' fair share of economic difficulties in these times, is pretty outstanding.

Dan. I agree wholeheartedly with you. I had the test earlier this year and at 44, I wasn't the youngest one there, which was actually a good sign... the message is getting through. Sure there were mostly the older men in there but the split was about 70/30.

Invasive? Hell yeah.

Necessary? Your life may depend on it.

Consequences? Legacy for the family.

For the sake of a 30 second examination, it's inane why men don't ALL have the check.

But why stop there? Blood tests, chest examinations, urine checks and other simple measures will keep the GP alerted to sudden changes in anything that can be monitored. Personally I make a habit of going to see the GP every flexi day (once a month) even to just check my weight and BP and glands.

Ang

Sounds like a very worthy cause.  After losing both parents to cancer, I am a yearly recipient of several forms of cancer screening and several quarterly exams.  All the checking is a means of prevention which may turn up a problem that might not show in a single annual checkup.  I regularly donate to several cancer charities.  Also, I already have a mustache.  I will look at your site and see what I can spare for a donation.

Chris 

Dan, Of course this is a noble cause.

The day that you wrote this post I lost a childhood friend to prostate cancer. It was too difficult at that time to respond. My friend Carl Parisi introduced me to 1/24 slot cars back in the 60's. We raced slot cars, flew Estes rockets, played Little League baseball, Wiffle ball, rode bikes, played two hand touch, ran track, participated in school plays, went bowling with girls, attended High School dances, cruised main street.......... !

You get the picture!

GET A CHECK UP!!

58 is too young to die.

Serge

From just a few comments, it's clear that everyone is affected by the big "C". Just recently my much older sister has been given the all clear after 5 years incidence free following a benign tumor removal from behind her left ear... but she fully knows this is just the beginning, because it never really ends. The risk of complications after 5 years is far less but it isn't conclusive. Still, there was a time to laugh and a time to cry, now is a time to laugh thank God.

im in. kinda funny looking tho. oh well

My Dr. Eugene Day in Oxford, North Carolina did the gloved finger sweep this Monday-no enlargement noted. Bloodwork revealed a cholosterol lever of 266 which is quite alarming and a uric acid level of 13-way beyond the norm let me tell you! However-I am well on the way to loosing more weight and lowering the numbers as I have lost around ten pounds since having my wisdom teeth yanked out two Mondays ago and have changed my diet for the better as well. Purine baths at Mazatlans has taken a toll which I am determined to correct in time. Suprisingly he placed me on red rice yeast, which has been shown to clinically lower cholosterol by sixty or more points, and I have been on fish oil for a decade. Celery seeds in tablet form have also proven effective for gout relief. Even though I am a ground pounder at work-averaging around four-to-five miles daily-I was unable to loose weight which carries a host of problems, including an elevated cancer risk. Of course poor diet choices over a lifetime as well as certain genetic factors and a general lack of exercise has helped contribute to mild hypertension as well, and I have been on the mild diuretic HCTZ for around ten years. The rapid fluid loss generated by the diuretic was the catalyst for my gout. If you think things were bad now-when my hypothyroid condition was discovered in 1987-my cholesterol level almost put me in a coffin at 800! Cancers do carry an environmental and hereditary component, and are fed by diets high in sugar and low in protein. Sharon Ann said "absolutely not" when the mustache and beard subject was breached, but suffice it to say she is right there. I'll cheer you hairy guys on! I tip my controller to you! God Bless! Tony mgbbrown

I dislike doctors with fat fingers.