How long did you wait before you decided on getting the AUS?
Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer
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Get well brother
I wish you the best my brother
Although I did not regain urinary continence after my radical prostatectomy and the urologist recommended the implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS), I was "gun shy" about more surgery. I waited 10 years before I agreed to have the AUS implanted. As I said in my original post, I should not have waited that long. However, now that I have the AUS, I am very happy with the way it works.
Yo blessings fam
I mean if you don't want kids and want to nut in these hoes then it's best to get a vasectomy.
Most of these dudes pushin 60, have fun , fuck, go raw
No.
thats great news, bro. So relieved to hear that,
your BGOL family are still right here to help you through your recovery too.
That's good shit man. I know we give each other shit here, but when a black man feels comfortable enough to talk about some real shit, we are all here to support you through it.
The same idiots who believed it would cure a person with COVID.
Doctors like him should get their license revoked.
You sure it's not the Cubans?
The PSA is a simple blood test. Your doctor should order it along with tests for anything else. The finger wave is not as bad as it sounds, and could save your life.
Shannon Sharpe Opens Up About His 2016 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: 'I Didn't Tell Anybody'
"What I want to do now is break down the stigma," says Sharpe, who wants to start the conversation to eradicate health inequity in prostate cancerBy
Natasha Dye
Published on September 18, 2022 06:09PM EDT
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On a Thursday afternoon in 2016, Shannon Sharpe went in for "a routine" screening that would later reveal the NFL Hall of Famer's prostate cancer diagnosis. Now, the 54-year-old athlete is cancer-free and ready to share his story to raise awareness around prostate cancer.
"Once you hear that 'C' word come out of their mouth, okay, damn," recalls Sharpe, who was diagnosed just one month before he was scheduled to relocate to Los Angeles, where he had just landed a co-hosting gig on FS1 alongside Skip Bayless. "It was difficult..this was my dream job," he tells PEOPLE.
"I had been wanting this job for so long and I had been given an opportunity that Skip believed in me. I was going to be a co-host of a daily debate show that we talked about football, basketball, track and field, golf, tennis, social issues, I was the first athlete to do what I do full-time."
Sharpe and Bayless, 70, co-host FS1's daily show, Undisputed: Skip and Shannon, where the analysts discuss current happenings across the sports world. "I didn't want this opportunity to go away because I wanted to show that athletes could do more than talk about their best sports. I felt that there were a lot of people counting on me to be able to go fulfill this obligation that I had been given."
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Sharpe reveals, "Only four people knew at the time – my brother and sister and my girlfriend at the time. I didn't tell my mom, I didn't tell my kids. I didn't tell anybody." The father-of-three, who "didn't want to worry" his family, says it was "at least a year" before he "felt comfortable enough" to tell them. "The last thing I need you to do is worry about something that you can't control. You worrying is going to make me worry and that wasn't going to help our situation," he explains. "They did after a while. I think they understood that Dad is strong. Dad can do it. Dad does a great job of compartmentalizing. And the thing was, I found out I had just got the job at Undisputed."
Sharpe had been getting screened for prostate cancer since he retired from the league in 2003, mainly because of his family's history. "My dad died at 39. Another brother, he died in his mid forties. And the other died in his late 40s, early 50s. So all that's going through my mind. So absolutely, I'm getting checked out all the time."
But Sharpe says "everything felt fine" when he went in for the screening. "I felt fine. I was exercising, eating right, drinking plenty of water, no really bad habits or anything. I thought it was going to be routine," says Sharpe. "I've fractured my eye socket, broken my collar bone, dislocated my elbow. I tore a rib cartilage, separated both of my shoulders. Those are things you can feel...I felt normal. There was no transformation in my body, I didn't lose weight. There was no pain, no nothing, and if you had just looked at me, I looked like the picture of health."
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The scariest realization for the three-time Super Bowl champion however, was the possibility of missing out on future generations of his family, like his own father and uncles had. "Like I said, my dad died at 39. He had another brother that died in his mid 40s. Another brother died in his late early 50s. That's direct. That's my dad. That's my two uncles. I mean, he never got a chance to see me and my brother play in the NFL. The only thing I could do is give my son my dad's name and tell him about my dad. I tell him about his granddad or tell him my daughters about their granddad. So they never got an opportunity to sit on my dad's lap, to go to his home and get candies or have him take them somewhere. They never got that opportunity. Well, I wanted that opportunity for my grandkids."
Sharpe, who has two daughters and one son, will become a grandfather in 2023. "I'm going to be a pawpaw!" The future "pawpaw" tells PEOPLE he's excited to give his son "a little dose of his own medicine" as a grandparent. "When you get the kid back, the kid isn't going to be the same as when you brought them to us because I'm probably going to let them do a little bit more than you did. I remember the way you behaved when you were with me," he laughs. "I'm going to let him jump on the bed! I'm going to let him be a kid."
Now, Sharpe is partnering with Janssen Oncology's Talk That Talk to to help start the conversation about prostate cancer screening that will help to eradicate health inequity in prostate cancer.
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His own experience opened Sharpe's eyes to an alarming statistic showing the disparities between cancer diagnoses among different races. "At the time, when you get diagnosed with something, the last thing on your mind that Black men are two times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. At that time, I didn't know if it was two times, five times, six times."
"What I want to do now is break down the stigma – do not be afraid to go to the doctor," says Sharpe. "We need to give Black people more access to healthcare, and then once we get better access to healthcare, don't be afraid to go use it. Do not be afraid to just ask questions of your doctor. Do not be afraid to get screened because it could save your life. Now they mentioned there's a 96% survival rate if you get screened and it gets detected early. I'm a part of that 96%. See, I can speak this. I'm not a paid actor. I lived this. I've been there. I can tell you that this could save your life. Saved my life. I'm living proof."
Now that he's looking forward to spending time with his grandson, Sharpe says, "At the end of the day, really all I have now is my health. It's the most important commodity that I possess."
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Thank you for sharing brother. I get checked twice a year because I request it.
Praying for a speedy recovery!
Praying for a speedy recovery!
In short, the answer is no. Here is an article that is good to read:
Prostate Exam: Age, Procedure, What To Expect & Results
A prostate exam is a screening test to look for prostate cancer. It typically includes a PSA test (a type of blood test) and a digital rectal exam (DRE).
my.clevelandclinic.org
LOL I remember when I was stationed in Germany, a female warrant did that without fore warning me... Now I see there's was a male doctor out at JBLM (Old Fort Lewis) has been inappropriately touching mail service members for years up there. You're suppose to trust certain professions to do the right thing.
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Get well brotha! wishing for a speedy recovery.
Man...I just got back from my biopsy... This crap went south from the time I check in to the urology clinic front desk. This clown says "sir you're a day early. My reply was "today is the 22nd my appoint is on the 22nd". Oh Sir i'm sorry I got my days mixed up. I get to the back and the nurse who's filling in for someone goes over the procedure. The doctor who explains the process again. They go back and forth how to mark the six containers to make sure the specimen goes in the right container. This son of gun in the middle of the procedure ask the doctor says "how do I put/release the sample in the container". Man I'm pissed, and my ass is hurting like hell! Then a nurse who had earlier ask this individual did he needed help, and replied "no I'm good" steps in to get things right. I had to go through the process of taking samples of my prostate twice. Now I'm home pissing blood, and hoping I don't get sepsis...
Pissing blood only last a day or two. Just to give you fair warning, the first few times after you ejaculate, is going to be quite painful. Just like the movie title, "There Will Be Blood.