Trying my best to follow the GTD rules and doing stress free productivity, but last night I was getting ready to pause work long enough for a respite of food, marriage, dogs and sleep, when I just had to read that last email, and it was from my “boss!”

This year I have 186,000 “bosses.” That’s how many American men will be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2008.

My “boss” was a 58-year old man I’d met kayaking at the beginning of the summer. He saw the Athletes for a Cure logo on my boat, told he’d had a prostatectomy and did I want to hear his story? I said sure and gave him my email address.

His story arrived in my email box last night, and like 186,000 other men who endure mostly in silence, he asked me for two things. The first was, after reading his email detailing the all to common prostate cancer story, for me to understand why he’d kept silent for almost ten years. The second thing was for me to help him tell his story, so I’m going to in the next few posts.