A referral can feel like a letter dropped into a void. You leave an appointment having been told that a specialist will be in touch, and then weeks pass with no word. Nobody explains who…
The medication worked. That is the frustrating part. The mornings stopped being unbearable, the constant background dread lifted, and work became possible again. Then, somewhere in the second month, a man notices that his interest…
Men who work outdoors through a Peace Country winter develop a working knowledge of cold that no article can improve on. They know what minus forty with a wind feels like, how long a task…
A man is treated for chlamydia, takes the antibiotics exactly as directed, and the symptoms clear. Six weeks later they are back. The conclusion he usually draws is that the treatment failed or that something…
Priapism is an erection that persists beyond about four hours, or one unrelated to sexual arousal, and it is a urological emergency. Blood becomes trapped in the erectile tissue, oxygen supply falls, and the tissue…
The word enabling gets used carelessly, usually as an accusation, and it has left a lot of families frightened that any act of kindness is making things worse. A father wonders whether paying his son's…
The leave itself is difficult enough. What men often find harder is the week before returning. Sleep goes again. The old dread comes back on Sunday evening. There is a specific and very common worry…
Hearing loss from noise does not announce itself. There is no pain, no single moment of damage in most cases, and no day on which a man notices he is hearing less. What happens instead…
The impulse after a worrying encounter is to get tested immediately, and it is a reasonable one. The difficulty is that a test taken the next morning is largely uninformative. A negative result at that…
Pelvic floor training has a reputation problem among men. It is widely assumed to be something recommended after childbirth, and the exercises are usually explained in a single sentence at the end of an appointment:…
