that time in my life. and then as he s going through the exam, he s talking about family history. he noted that my mother had breast cancer, was still recovering, and toward the end of the exam, he said, now it s time for me to do a testicular cancer screening exam and then a prostate cancer screening exam. and at 18, i didn t even know what a prostate was, but i knew what cancer was. i was terrified of it. and how it had been positioned that everything at michigan was different in that we had the best medicine, the best coaches, the best living, the best food, so on and so forth. so i just thought this was a part of the process of becoming a michigan man. and then i turned 50 in march