What have you personally done to improve the well being of a man in your life?

lazlounderhill · 2014-05-29T03:01:41+00:00

I took in my friend and let him live with me for several months - rent free - after he caught his fiance cheating on him. He was essentially broke, out of work because he had a dislocated shoulder (biking accident) and would have certainly been living on the damned streets if I hadn't.

2014-05-29T03:34:08+00:00

I volunteer at a men's homeless shelter, donate to vasagel, and give up part of my thanksgiving to help at a boys youth sport event that raises money for child burn victims. These are my big three.

2014-05-29T02:56:24+00:00

There are a bunch of guys at my work in their fifties and sixties that are beginning to get prostate related problems. It's not something they spontaneously bring up but at least if I initiate conversation most are willing to talk about how it's affecting their lives. A couple months ago I networked them all together and it spontaneously became an informal support group that allowed them to open up. Now I've got a new problem, everytime they walk past my desk they stop and have a 5 minute convo about how good it is to pee again. This problem is one I'm glad to have - even if it is about the strength of a pee stream 5 times a day.

rocelot7 · 2014-05-29T07:31:43+00:00

I volunteer at a homeless shelter. I also volunteer at a hospice for severely disabled youths, not excursively males but I spend most of time with the guys since I'm like on of five guys who either work or volunteer there.

rapiertwit · 2014-05-29T14:09:16+00:00

I drank a pot of coffee and stayed up all night reading to him to distract him from his immense pain, on what turned out to be the last night of his life. This guy was three inches taller than me, robust and fit when I met him a few years previous, but now I was carrying him back and forth to the bathroom. When I picked him up most of what I felt was bones, it was awful. In the wee hours he cried with me although his body couldn't produce tears anymore, and I gathered the courage to tell him something I thought he needed to hear, and that I was pretty sure his wife and daughters wouldn't say: that it was OK to die, OK to quit fighting and let the suffering end. I felt weird telling him that since he was only a distant relative through marriage and it's a very intimate thing to say, but I really felt like nobody else was going to, all he had was women around him, and although they had been absolute champions through it all I felt like they couldn't understand this last moment, that he was dragging out a death that was at that point inevitable because that's what he thought he was supposed to do - that he needed someone's permission to quit the fight. I don't know if what I said had any impact but he was gone early the next morning.

MRSPArchiver · 2014-05-29T02:39:42+00:00

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Title	What have you personally done to improve the well being of a man in your life?
Author	Norph00
Upvotes	0
Comments	9
Date	May 29, 2014 2:39 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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