Kilted to Kick Cancer

[mixelito24]

I recently connected with www.kiltedtokickcancer.org.
They are encouraging anyone who wishes to kilt up every day during the month of September. As September is Cancer prevention and awareness month, being kilted gives me the opportunity to answer the question, " What is under your kilt?" My answer this month is, "Not cancer anymore because I got checked every year started when I turned 40. Because of regular check ups prostate cancer was discovered in 2006. I had surgery followed by radiation and chemo.
I now have been cancer free for more than 4 years.
Please all men get yearly prostate cancer checks and encourage all men over 40 to get regular medical exams.
Michael Boydith:

[The Monk]

Been kilted full time since Sep 1st, thanks to tolerant bosses. I have posters taped up in the clinic and I have business cards with the KTKC, Prostate Cancer Foundation and our clinic Web sites on the front and prostate and testicular cancer bullet points on the back. One of my bosses took a pic of me in all my glory and sent it to the local newspaper. They're coming to do a story next week.

The wife has even got over the shock of going with me, suitably kilted, to Wal Mart and then to dinner on Sep 1st.

It helps that the chief doc wears a kilt himself upon occasion.

[ForresterModern]

Kilted to Kick Cancer, Sept 15, 2011. Had a mostly administrative day at work so could finally don the kilt to honor my friend and old fishing buddy John Skoglund, who was just recently diagnosed with advanced bile duct cancer. Here is a pic from when I got home at the end of a long but comfortable and compliment filled day.



8yd tank in Dutch Friendship tartan made by Bonnie Heather Greene, Loden Crag tweed Argyll jacket and vest, L&M bobcat semidress sporran (thanks Rocky), pale green shirt with navy small pattern tie, olive heather hose with ancient red (orange) flashes, black brogues (honest, they were shined before I left for work). First time I ever tried wearing a sporran strap instead of a chain or sporran hangers---definitely will not be the last time, though.

Also honoring both my parents(mom--kidney, pop--prostate and skin) and my uncle Charlie (colon) who are cancer survivors, my cousin Lisa who succumbed to advanced colon cancer just over two years ago, and my wife's first son Codie who succumbed to leukemia 10 years ago this past May. Cancer touches all our lives in many ways. Get your routine screening done as scheduled, be that prostate, colon, PAP, breast, skin or other. As a physician who sees a lot of people with cancer in my work (mostly children in my case) I can attest that screening works and is a minimum of discomfort by comparison to the alternative. When my cousin was diagnosed (2 years younger than me) it probably saved her younger sister's life as she was found on screening prompted by it to have a precancerous polyp, and my uncle's life too, as he also prompted to be screened by it was found to have a moderately advanced stage of the same colon cancer that took my cousin Lisa.

jeff

[DScottHunter]

Yesterday I was looking at a site called "Kilted to Kick Cancer" where they were encouraging men to wear their kilts every day this month, since September is Prostate Cancer awareness month and when questioned about why, they could tell them how important it was to get their PSA's checked. So I wore my kilt to an Irish music session at a local coffee shop and then to my weekly Christian mens meeting and at both I was question why and was able to share that I was a prostate cancer survivor and the importance of getting checked. One of the men in the mens group carried this forward by wearing his kilt to a movie later in the evening. He too was question and given the chance to "pass on" this information. One of the responses he got from a guy was that he was turning 50 soon and the time was right for him to get checked. So for all you guys in the rabble, is it time for you to get checked? Pass it on it could save lives. Peace and Good, DSH

[sevenoaks]

Thank you from another Prostate cancer survivor. We should start something like wearing a kilt during our prostate awareness month in Canada.
I will support you in that and if asked will inform them I am supporting The USA Prostate awareness month.
All men over 45 need to man-up and get this test done. The sooner it is caught the easier it is to treat.

[Jay]

Sadly, prostate cancer has always taken a backseat to more "glamourous" cancers.


Kudos to you, Brother.

[GMan]

Sadly, prostate cancer has always taken a backseat to more "glamourous" cancers.


Kudos to you, Brother.

I agree.

[DScottHunter]

Thank you from another Prostate cancer survivor. We should start something like wearing a kilt during our prostate awareness month in Canada.
I will support you in that and if asked will inform them I am supporting The USA Prostate awareness month.
All men over 45 need to man-up and get this test done. The sooner it is caught the easier it is to treat.

Thanks for carrying the torch in Canada. May you stay cancer free!!

[KenB]

Happy to kilt up and support the cause in Toronto.

[The Monk]

Made the local paper:

http://www.chronicleonline.com/conte...rp-dressed-man