Prostate Basics starts today, and this is the thing I keep coming back to while I write it. I read a thread in September that I have not been able to put down. A woman wrote it about her husband, who is 55. He had a blood test. Then a scan. Then a letter arrived telling him the date of his biopsy. Nobody had given him the result of the blood test or the scan. The date was the first piece of information he was handed about his own body. Another man in the same thread said the same thing had happened to him. His words: "I did not get any feedback on my MRI, I was just told they wanted a biopsy so I was having one." His biopsy found no cancer. Sixteen years ago I would not have known that was odd. A friend told me in an airport that the problem I did not know I had was my prostate. I had no idea. I looked into it, made some small changes, got my PSA checked, and that was about it for years. There was almost nothing to read back then. What I know now is that the thing a man wants is not comfort. He wants a number and a clear path forward. Comfort fades on the drive home. A number he has read himself stays put. A plan tells him what to do with it. So here is my question for you this week, and I would like real answers, not polite ones. When you had a prostate test, did anyone give you the actual result and a forward plan? Or did you get "it is fine" and nothing else? https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

Let me start the week with a confession. Sixteen years ago a friend at an airport told me I had a prostate issue. I had no idea. I could not have told you what a prostate was, never mind what it did. So today, the simplest question. What is it? It is a gland, that starts off about the size of a walnut. Only men have one. It makes fluid for semen. That is the whole introduction. No drama. Just another gland. The reason I start here is that almost every family I talk to skipped this step. They went straight from "something is wrong" to the scary words, with nothing in between. Here is your homework. Explain the prostate to someone at home in one sentence, using only what is in this post. Then come back and tell me how it went. Did they already know? https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about

Sometimes we leave a medical appointment wishing we'd asked one more question.🤔 I know I have. Sometimes we don't even know what questions to ask until much later.😕 I've noticed this come up in conversations here, and I thought we might be able to help one another. What's one question you wish you'd asked your doctor before a prostate-related test, treatment, or procedure?💡 You don't have to share your personal medical history. And if you haven't experienced this yourself, perhaps there's a question you think would be helpful for someone preparing for an appointment. We all think differently in similar situations, so lets help each other out with suggestions. Here's the part I'd especially love us to try... Read what someone else shares. Can you add another question that might help someone prepare?❓ We're not here to give medical advice or second-guess anyone's treatment decisions. We're here to help one another have more informed conversations with our healthcare professionals. You never know who might benefit from a question they hadn't thought to ask themselves. https://www.skool.com/prostate-paladin-4886/about