He had no symptoms. He was healthy, in good shape, and the only reason anyone tested him at all was a routine physical he needed to renew a racing license.

This week my husband Jay sits down with me to talk about prostate cancer from the patient's side. Not the clinical version, not the tidy version, but what it actually felt like to hear the word cancer when nothing in his body had warned him it was coming.

We talk about the diagnosis that hit us from the blind side, the before and the after that every family knows when something like this arrives.

And Jay does something many men are uncomfortable doing. He talks openly about the parts men keep to themselves, the parts that make so many men avoid the doctor in the first place.

There is a reason men don't live as long as women do, and a lot of it comes down to what we are taught to ignore, to blow off, to handle alone. Jay was raised on that same script. This is him setting it down.

If there is a man in your life who tells you he's fine, this is the one to send him.

This is the second in a three-part series for Men's Health Month. It follows "There Is No Small Talk in a Cancer Waiting Room," and leads into a conversation a clinical expert to answer our questions from screening to treatment.

Show Notes: https://drloristevic.com/prostate-cancer-one-mans-honest-story/