{"id":215,"date":"2013-11-03T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:41:27","slug":"movember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Into Movember"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/31-Oct-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-216\" alt=\"On 31st October without 'tache, taken in St. Helier round the corner from where Gloria and I got married.\" src=\"http:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/31-Oct-13-300x263.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/31-Oct-13-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/31-Oct-13-1024x900.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 31st October without &#8216;tache, taken in St. Helier round the corner from where Gloria and I got married.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As many of you know, I am growing a moustache in November, sponsored for charity, after my brush with prostate cancer this year. I meant to do it last year before I even knew I had the disease, but other difficult family events got in the way.<\/p>\n<p>As you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movember.com\/mens-health\/prostate-cancer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is the second largest cause of male cancer deaths in UK. Every hour one man dies from prostate cancer and over 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One in eight men in the UK will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime<\/li>\n<li>The average age for men to be diagnosed with prostate cancer is between 70 and 74 years<\/li>\n<li>More than 100 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the moustache, after three days there is not much to show. There is some very light coloured stubble. I hope it is a return to my blond phase as i had very fair hair as a young chap. However it is more likely going to be grey interspersed with darker colours or ginger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3-Nov-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-220\" alt=\"On 3rd November with hardly any visible moustache, but it is there.\" src=\"http:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3-Nov-13-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3-Nov-13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3-Nov-13.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 3rd November with hardly any visible moustache, but it is there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is a slow process. Maybe I should massage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growmore.com\/products\/type\/fertilizers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Growmore<\/a> into my top lip.<\/p>\n<p>We will see. Oh, the excitement!<\/p>\n<p>I would very much appreciate your support in raising some money to increase awareness of prostate cancer and help improve men&#8217;s health. My Movember page is here : <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movember.com\/mospace\/6554081\" target=\"_blank\">mobro.co\/jonstow <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=776059e0-2179-4597-8fba-5ebd37739892\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I am growing a moustache in November, sponsored for charity, after my brush with prostate cancer this year. I meant to do it last year before I even knew I had the disease, but other difficult family events got in the way. As you can read here, prostate cancer is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Into Movember<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,14,5],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-mens-health","tag-movember","tag-prostate-cancer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Into Movember - Flotsam, Jetsam and Driftwood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is the second largest cause of male cancer deaths in UK.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/flotsam-jetsam-driftwood.co.uk\/?p=215\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Into Movember - 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