Healthy Valentine

Getting older pretty much sucks. Not only does all of your favorite music get played on the "oldies" or "classic rock" stations but your body starts to fall apart to. After a soccer injury last week I was asked (or nagged) to go get a physical. I'm near that age where a "physical" for guy means, well, THE TEST that no guy looks forward to. I think Mark Cuban can relate, although I didn't have to "take" his kind of test.

My physical will be done on Friday and I'd bet that everything is OK. The fact that I went for almost six years without a physical gave me reason for concern. I'm a busy person but is what I'm doing that's making me busy worth the risk of taking two to three hours each year and getting those screenings done? How would I feel if, God forbid, if I have something wrong that I don't find out about until too late. Could I look my son and daughter in they eye and tell them, I was too busy to get it detected early?

We don't highlight all the client work we do but this case deserves an exception. The company I work for recently completed a site to send a different type of valentine. It's a site where you can go and write a message to your loved one asking them to get either their prostrate or mammogram screening.

It's an important message. Prostrate cancer is the second deadliest cancer among men and is known as a silent killer because it often lacks symptoms. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women. Take a second today and send your loved one a valentine asking them to get their screening.

- Paul Herring

Comments

[Tony Chimento]

Why is it everytime I think of "that kind" of exam, I think of Chevy Chase in the movie fletch where he has this wonderful exam?

Thanks for the convicting nudge. I guess it's time for me to go too. blechchhc.

[Paul Herring]

Hey it wasn't Cam it was ----

"Moon River, silent as breeze..."