I saw a picture of an ostrich with its head in the sand this week and it made me think.
We all know the image. The ostrich hides its head so it cannot see the danger. And we laugh, because the danger is obviously still there. The ostrich with its head in the sand still gets eaten.
Then I remembered that is exactly what I did for years.
I was getting up all night. My stream had slowed right down. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew something was going on, and I just... did not look at it. Head in the sand. If I did not think about it, it was not real.
It took a friend in an airport telling me straight before I pulled my head up.
I think a lot of us do this. Not because we are stupid. Because looking feels harder than not looking.
So I am curious about this group.
What is the thing you kept your head in the sand about - prostate or otherwise - until something or someone made you look? And what got you to finally look?