A WORK IN PROGRESS

Now That I Have a Bucket

Reflections on Spending Time with Prostate Cancer

by Sandy Block

"First [support] group—online, of course—was mostly 80-year-old straight men talking about what gave them erections. A few wives joined in on camera, nodding. Several men couldn’t unmute or mute, let alone get a boner. I don’t think I’d even had surgery yet. I was just exploring. Mostly made me feel 80, and I hadn’t even been petrified about impotence yet. Are these my people? Am I now one of them?"

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