A Family Marked By Cancer

Neville Brewster 0:01

As I grew older and I start having children, I recognize that if I don't get it, my children will get it.

Grantley Martelly 0:08

Yeah, so that would be the next generation.

Neville Brewster 0:10

And I asked the Lord to let me take this courage so that my children would not be afflicted with cancer. Right. Because cancer is genetically ingrained in my family. Right. Imagine the others already died from prostate cancer. I come in off of cancer surgery. And I gotta go to the hospital to see my two sisters. One, fighting terminal breast cancer. The next one, mere dinosaurs with a rare form of noise cancer. Wow. She was given five years to live. Two sisters in the hospital belf. Wow. And I going back to the states and I check her. And I begging my sister the whole on till I get back.

Grantley Martelly 0:46

Three of you with cancer at the same time. Three siblings with cancer at the same time.

Neville Brewster 0:51

At the same time. I have two siblings alive, two brothers. One does not have, he's older, they're older than I am. One has not had. The next one has never been tested. So he doesn't know.

Show Open And Guest Intro

Grantley Martelly 1:15

This is the Real Health Black Men Podcast, where we empower men to take control of their health. We provide vital information and build community support. Join us as we discuss everything from major health challenges to mental wellness to physical fitness. So if you're ready to level up your health and your life, you're in the right place. Let's get started.

Neville’s Background And Health Baseline

Grantley Martelly 1:46

Welcome back to Real Health Black Men Podcast. Today I'm happy to be sitting here in Barbados with a friend, and we're going to talk about his health journey. So my friend is Neville Brewster, and I'm going to have him introduce himself and then we're going to get right into the conversation. So Neville, tell us a little bit about yourself, your name, if you want to share your age, your occupation, a little bit about you.

Neville Brewster 2:09

My name is Neville Brewster. I'm 69 years old from Barbados. The world's paradise. But even though it's the world's paradise, in the caribbean, we still have our health challenges, as you know. Former corporate exec in Barbados, a former Barbados national athlete as well.

Grantley Martelly 2:27

Okay.

Neville Brewster 2:28

Track and field athlete. Very healthy, very conscientious, but still a myriad of challenges which I've faced, which I will detail to you very shortly.

Grantley Martelly 2:37

Well, thank you, Neville, for that introduction. So we're going to talk about your health journey today, your health story. So you you faced a number of challenges over the years. But did you have any indicators that anything was wrong? Anything that was telling you you need to go to the doctor, or it was it just part of a normal routine, normal medical system that you had you found out that there were some concerns?

Neville Brewster 3:00

Well, I lived a very healthy lifestyle

The Executive Physical And Red Flags

Neville Brewster 3:04

all my life. In July 2013, I actually was feeling the best I've ever felt. Working in corporate Barbados, a good family, very good career. Everything was going well. But I had to go for my executive medical. And I went for my executive medical. Normally checked out everything would check out good. The year before, everything was great. And after the medical, about two weeks later, I got a call from my doctor. I need to see you immediately. I said, okay. But when he said that, I knew what had happened. Because let me preface this and let you know that I knew that I would have prostate cancer. The question was, then you let me diagnose.

Grantley Martelly 3:57

How did you know?

Neville Brewster 3:57

I knew because my family have a history of cancer.

Biopsy, Diagnosis, And Shock

Grantley Martelly 4:06

Okay.

Neville Brewster 4:07

My dad got resting in his grave. He had from prostate, but he had he had prostate cancer. He died from prostate cancer. Okay. He had one brother. He died from prostate cancer as well. My two older brothers, three older brothers, they died from prostate cancer as well. So when I got that call, I left the office. He said to me, You have to see an urologist immediately. That started my journey consultation with the urologist. I went, I saw one urologist. Then I called a personal friend of mine, good old buddy of mine, senior in the medical field. I explained to him my position. And he said to me, I want you to see a different urologist. I said, but I don't want to because I've got experiences. He said to me, Give me 10 minutes, I'll call you back. Call me back in 10 minutes. Your appointment is tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock with a urologist. I went and he did regular tests again, finger tests as usual, PSA. Then he called me back next week and tell me we've got to do some biopsies quickly. My PSA had moved from 1.25 in one year to 8.24. Wow. I had to work quickly. We did the biopsies. Two weeks later, biopsies came out. Kind of my 12 cells already had cancer.

Grantley Martelly 5:35

Wow, 10 or 12. Yeah, both left and right.

Neville Brewster 5:38

I didn't had already cancerous. I had already made up my mind that I did not want to know how long I would live with cancer in my body. Wow. So I decided I would get it out. Okay. I would get it out. The then was this was okay. When I went for the results, I was hoping for the best. Okay. Hoping for the best. Expecting the worst. And even though I was hoping the best, when the doctor said, Nev, you have prostate cancer. As big and as strong as

Securing World-Class Care

Neville Brewster 6:10

I was, my knees buckled. Wow. It felt like a death sentence. I was 56, going 57, then it was 57 in October. And as strong as I was, I cried like a little I felt hopeless. Knowing what my brothers, father and uncle had gone through. I felt hopeless. My wife was with me. And I remember when I left the doctor, they had a lot of people in the waiting room. Tears were still streaming on my eyes. I met a good old friend over there and he said to me, Brewster, fucking good. He said, Don't worry, he will get through this. I left there, determined that I would get through it. I went back to work. Had to break the new set office. He said to me, and there's a senior company in the Caribbean, but I was working with them. Caribbean company, not Barbie, Caribbean Company. Caribbean Company, regional, yeah. Regional Company. He said to me, um, we gotta give you the best care possible. And he asked the folks to search for the best hospital that I can go to. And they came up with John Hopkins. Oh. In Maryland. In Maryland, yeah. In Maryland. Yeah. And we started making all the preparations to go to John Hopkins. Send them information.

Surgery Day And Faith

Neville Brewster 7:25

And then one Wednesday afternoon I was on the golf course and I got a call. Neville. Voice a strange voice. He said, Good evening. I said, who is this? He said, I'm your chairman.

Grantley Martelly 7:36

The chairman of the company.

Neville Brewster 7:37

Of the regional company. Okay. He said, I heard. I said, is this? He said, yes, yes, yes, yes, this is. Yes, this is me. I heard. But I call you to let you know that I'm gonna personally look after you. I have two of the best in the entire world. You can choose which one, but I will look after you. And he gave me the name of the first. I said, but if you give me the name of the first, I don't need the name of the second. And that ended our conversation that evening. I came home, I told my wife. Sat down, had dinner. Eight o'clock. My phone rang. Can I speak to Mr. Brewster? Strange voice altogether. He said, I got a call from your chairman who's my friend. And he told me about you. He is your friend, you are not my friend. And that night, that night, that same night, after uh 20 or 30 minutes conversation, I set the date for my operation. The 19th of November 2013. Never saw him before, never heard him before, but it was confident. And I went ahead and set me date with him. November 10th.

Grantley Martelly 8:51

So you where did you have your surgery? Did you end up having it at John Hopkins?

Neville Brewster 8:55

No, he operated out of Miami, Florida.

Grantley Martelly 8:59

Miami, Florida, okay.

Neville Brewster 9:00

And Houston, Texas.

Grantley Martelly 9:01

Okay.

Neville Brewster 9:02

So I had to make a choice. I decided Miami is close to me. Well, Miami. So my surgery was then I went up on the that was scheduled

Recovery, Lifestyle, And Side Effects

Neville Brewster 9:10

for the 19th. He sent down all the information that we needed to get done. Somebody kept doing it. I had to get urine culture, etc. But I did all those things. I went up on the 15th. It was Friday the 15th for November. Met with him on Monday 18th for one hour. And the conversation wasn't even about prostate cancer surgery.

Grantley Martelly 9:30

Yeah, surgery, yeah. It was.

Neville Brewster 9:31

Was about cricket? It was about cricket?

Grantley Martelly 9:35

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 9:36

He's Indian by the way. He was 46 at the time.

Grantley Martelly 9:39

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Neville Brewster 10:09

So we set the date. I stayed in a hotel about 200 yards away from Jackson Memorial Hotel. That's where he did my had my surgery. Everything was divine interfing was divine intervention.

Grantley Martelly 10:24

Yeah, it sounds like you're from the very beginning. You have the radical prostatectomy?

Neville Brewster 10:29

Yes, I have. We'll come to that shortly. I had an experience one Wednesday morning. I was in my yard cleaning my dogs. Six o'clock, around six o'clock. And it only dawned upon me, Nev. I asked the man, why you? You need praying of life. Everything is going great. Why you? Right. And that moment I asked the Lord with me.

Grantley Martelly 10:56

Mm-hmm.

Neville Brewster 10:58

I asked the Lord with me. And he said to me, Dadon.

Grantley Martelly 11:03

You gave your heart to the Lord, praise God, yeah.

Three Siblings, One Battle

Neville Brewster 11:05

After that. So I remember that Tuesday morning, my wife drove me down to the hospital. I had to get there for nine o'clock. My surgery was scheduled for 2.30. Got there for nine, went upstairs, put on your gun, put you in the bed, meet four or five different nurses asking the same questions in different formats. Just the issue.

Grantley Martelly 11:33

Right person, the right thing. You're here for the we're gonna we're gonna do the right thing. To the right person.

Neville Brewster 11:39

The right person, the right thing. Then then came the anesthesiologists.

Grantley Martelly 11:47

Same thing again.

Neville Brewster 11:48

I told them, right questions, again questions, right thing. Then came the doctors, junior doctors, for the many junior doctors.

Grantley Martelly 11:55

Yeah, teacher in the hospital.

Neville Brewster 11:57

Same questions, same. And then around 10 o'clock or so, the boss came in. I was there laying down. My wife was holding my hand and said good morning to everybody. He asked the folks where he's must have been back and said he's over yon. He said, What time is surgery scheduled for? I said 2.30. He said, We're gonna change that. We're gonna do him by 11:30 instead. Then was the time for the anesthesiologist to do his work. My wife was crying. I I said to her, Bills, don't cry. Because when I said my prayer that morning, I saw the angels that told me everything was gonna be okay. I said it's gonna be okay. And the anesthesiologist said to me, How did you get here? Did you come on the I-95? I said, no. Why that's a strange question. He said to me, Because the procedure that you're undergoing this morning is safety than drive it on the I-95.

Grantley Martelly 12:52

Wow.

Neville Brewster 12:54

I went in. That was all I remembered after that.

Grantley Martelly 12:58

Yeah, yeah. They put you out pretty fast. That's all I remember after that.

Neville Brewster 13:03

I got up,

Coping Through Faith And Gratitude

Neville Brewster 13:05

I had the surgery. I came to around 3:30, 4 o'clock, screaming, asking for food.

Grantley Martelly 13:12

Hungry, yeah. I was hungry. Yeah. I was like, can I get something to eat? The doctor.

Neville Brewster 13:23

Okay, so the next morning I met with the doctor. And it's much different to how we do in Barbados, but because you discharge the same next morning.

Grantley Martelly 13:30

Yeah, yeah. One overnight. Overnight.

Neville Brewster 13:33

Overnight. So I met with the doctor. And he said to me, Nev, everything went well. We got everything. I said, thank you, Jesus. And he got my discharge. But I had several questions for him. Lifestyle.

Grantley Martelly 13:49

Okay.

Neville Brewster 13:50

Eat him. And he said to me, You don't need no special debt. Eat everything that you can eat in moderation. Right. Do not overdo. Right. If you feel it having super brand, you can have a sip. You don't have to have three or four. Right. Everything in moderation. And I have practiced that. No special debt.

Grantley Martelly 14:15

How long has it been?

Neville Brewster 14:16

No radiation. No chemotherapy. Twelve years. Twelve years. 19th of November, 2025, I celebrated 12 years. Cancer free. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you so much. But that was a great journey. I have these cars approved. Right. But there's a little downside to it. Some of us are left a little less than perfect. Right, yeah. If I sneeze, if I laugh, if I run out of jerk suddenly, I may leak.

Grantley Martelly 14:50

May I get a leak, yeah. You get a leak. Yeah.

Neville Brewster 14:51

A leak.

Grantley Martelly 14:52

Yeah. You get a leak. You're still practicing your kegel exercises and stuff sometimes, don't you remember?

Neville Brewster 14:57

I don't practice kegel exercises anymore.

Grantley Martelly 14:59

Okay. I get a leak. Yeah, same thing happened to me. You get up too sudden, or yeah. Yeah.

New Health Issues And Perspective

Grantley Martelly 15:05

Or if you oversleep, you get a leak. Uh-huh.

Neville Brewster 15:07

So I wear a pad. Just to ensure that I'm not embarrassing myself in the open and public. And just make sure that I do what I know best.

Grantley Martelly 15:19

It's best, yeah. What I know best for yourself. You have to know yourself. You have to know how your body recovered. So that was one of the lifestyle changes you had to make because of this. Because of this.

Neville Brewster 15:31

And particularly when you're swinging playing golf.

Grantley Martelly 15:33

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 15:33

Gotta make sure.

Grantley Martelly 15:34

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 15:35

That yeah.

Grantley Martelly 15:36

Plus, you're on the you're on the course for anywhere from two to four hours. Two to four hours. Two to four heads. Yeah.

Neville Brewster 15:43

Now, now getting back to the family side. Yeah. And why how I know that I would get cancer. Growing up as children, they had families that had cancer. And you always hear, you know, people have different stories, but how cancer skips a generation? So when my dad was there and I was with cancer, I said, yes, it skips a generation, I can get it.

Grantley Martelly 16:07

You are in the right generation.

Neville Brewster 16:10

I said, I'm not going to get it. And um, he was there and those in 76. 1976, intermission. He lived 10 years later, he died in 1986. I said, I'm not going to get it. But as I grew older and I started having children, I recognize that if I don't get it, my children will get it.

Grantley Martelly 16:28

Yeah, because that would be the next generation.

Neville Brewster 16:30

And I asked the Lord to let me take this courage so that my children would not be afflicted with cancer. Right. Because cancer is genetically ingrained in my family. Right. Imagine the others already died

Movement, Work, And Service

Neville Brewster 16:45

from prostate cancer. I come in off of cancer surgery, and I gotta go to the hospital to see my two sisters. One fighting terminal breast cancer. The next one, being a diagnosis with a rare form of nose cancer. Wow. She was given five years to live. I was going back to the states with checkers. This is January 2014. Two sisters in the hospital belf. Wow. And I going back to the states of my checker. And I begging my sister to hold on until I get back. The one with breast cancer died, told them it's two months later.

Grantley Martelly 17:16

Wow, sorry to hear that. So it was three of you with cancer at the same time? Three of us with cancer at the same time. Three siblings with cancer at the same time. Wow, that's a heavy burden.

Neville Brewster 17:25

Yeah.

Grantley Martelly 17:26

That's a heavy burden.

Neville Brewster 17:27

My other sister died five years afterwards.

Grantley Martelly 17:30

Okay. The one with the nose.

Neville Brewster 17:32

The one with the nose. Five years afterwards. I have two siblings alive, two brothers. One does not have. He's older. They're older than I am. One does not have. The next one has never been tested. So he doesn't know. But in doing research and things like that, you come up with all types of things. You know, there's there's this Englishman who had a theory that cast is bad luck. You get it because of bad luck. And and you know, in reading it and trying to understand it, he conclusions he has a point, you know. Okay, well, my brother's not got it. Yeah, yeah.

Grantley Martelly 18:09

You got it,

Myths, Manhood, And Choosing Life

Grantley Martelly 18:10

yeah. Yeah. In science, they call that random selection. Lil Monsterman bad luck.

Neville Brewster 18:21

So I don't think it's I I just I just think that it's part of my lot. Part of your lot. I had tremendous support for my wife, some immediate family, pouring a love for my my friends, my staff. I could not have asked for greater love for my staff.

Grantley Martelly 18:39

That's good, that's a blessing.

Neville Brewster 18:40

I never I will never forget, and I would always say that, you know what? When you live good with people, people will be good to you.

Grantley Martelly 18:51

People will be good to you, yeah.

Neville Brewster 18:53

My directors, marketing director, my operations director, my finance director. Even when I was leaving to go for my surgery.

Grantley Martelly 19:04

Wow.

Neville Brewster 19:05

It walked into my tears.

Grantley Martelly 19:06

Wow. In tears. Not not knowing the future, yeah. But then they got to welcome you back. When they came back. Yeah. Neville, it sounds like you, your cancer journey has been quite blessed. Good support system, good family system, but you also have the genetic predisposition of it. And sounds to me from your story that there was some emotional experiences with the whole thing. Yourself, your sister, two sisters going through it as at the same time. So, how do you how do you deal with the emotion? How did give us a little bit about how you deal with those emotions or did they have how did they affect you? And how did you keep yourself on a positive vein?

Neville Brewster 19:48

Dealing with cancer is not easy is not easy. It's not easy. You have to be strong. And above all, you have to be blessed. Faith is what gets these type of situations.

Early Testing And New Diagnostics

Neville Brewster 20:05

Faith in the Lord, knowing that he will be there for you no matter who you turn. Because it comes. It comes. And you have to be constantly reminding yourself that there's a greater good. And this is what is all this is what it's all about. It can be emotionally draining or depend on the individual. And there's no greater place or no greater place or person in which to place your trust than in Jesus Christ. And he will bring you through. He will bring you through because he will be there for you. As he said, he will never leave you nor forsake you. And you hold on to that. Hold on to that, the understanding that you know what you're gonna be strong. Yes, there comes a time when all of us have to go. That's part of life. But the time that you are here, you have something to look for. That helps you with a lot of emotions that you'll go through. Be toxoter. If you feel a pain in your side, you feel the cancer coming back. Isn't that something in mental anguish that you're experiencing? Right. Always go back. Always refer back to the one who would keep you and keep you going. And say your prayers and give give thanks. For every minute, every moment, every day, every month, every year, give thanks.

Grantley Martelly 21:39

Thankful. A heart of gratitude. Attitude of gratitude.

Neville Brewster 21:42

Attitude of gratitude. Be great be grate be grateful and be thankful.

Grantley Martelly 21:47

So as we were talking, you were talking a little bit about going through some other health challenges now, in addition to your cancer. Your cancer is under control. Correct. But you have some other health challenges. I mean, do you want to share anything about those or do you just

Men’s Health Habits And Family Legacy

Grantley Martelly 22:00

Well, I mean, think about our listeners as uh and as we talk about the emotions as well, right? Not just how many details you want to share, but the emotions can also come back, right? Because we say, why me again? Right? Why am I going through this again?

Neville Brewster 22:14

That I know, the last four months have been a a very testing phase for me. Um health issues, stomach-wise. Unfortunately, I've lost a lot of it. Or fifty pounds already. Um but I've done all the requisite tests, now we'll have to get a a bit more done, like colonoscopy, endoscopy, CT scans, etc. Um no cancer at the moment. Thank you, Jesus.

Grantley Martelly 23:12

Thank you, Jesus, yes.

Neville Brewster 23:14

Thank you, Jesus. But still trying to find out what is causing and giving me the trouble. But I look on the brightest side of things all the time. I already have 12 years. Twelve years. Not that I haven't greedy. But every person would want more.

Grantley Martelly 23:35

But we all want to have some more, yeah.

Neville Brewster 23:37

Every person would want some more.

Grantley Martelly 23:38

You're still pretty young.

Neville Brewster 23:39

I really have I really had 12 years, and I'm happy. I'm happy. I look on the brightest side, I'm happy. I would do whatever is necessary to get back to good health again. But if that isn't to be, I've had 12 good years. Okay. And I'm thankful.

Grantley Martelly 23:56

So what do you do to for to maintain your mental health and your physical health? We talked a little bit about you playing golf, but what things do you do to to just keep yourself energized and healthy and being like you said, being able to face life and enjoy life the remainder of the life that you have?

Neville Brewster 24:14

Well, um I I was always athletic, so even before golf I would walk. I would walk daily to make sure that I get in my um my walk and I I have a small consulting company, but then I get the opportunity. That keeps me busy in terms of work doing business plans or going to someplace in the Caribbean and doing a little bit of work, etcetera. And then

The Cost Of Delay And Final Call

Neville Brewster 24:46

going with the brothers on Sunday at church, and then going to men's fellowship and and giving talks sometimes to men on health issues, particularly prostate cancer. Because I find that a lot of men shouldn't die from prostate cancer.

Grantley Martelly 25:03

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 25:03

They should not.

Grantley Martelly 25:04

That's one of the reasons for this podcast. Most men should not be dying from prostate cancer. With early detection.

Neville Brewster 25:11

If you could live without a prostate, why not live without it? Right. But they have big egos. A lot of men have big egos. And uh they believe that losing their manhood is gonna be a dung on them. I say to those men, don't wait and get six months or a year or two years. Think of life. Use the greatest avenues available to you and you can extend your life by years. You know the other things that life can bring You still have joy to have a good surgery surgery and the nerves aren't damaged, you can still get an erection.

Grantley Martelly 26:01

Right, you can still have it, yeah. You can still have sex.

Neville Brewster 26:05

It is different, but you can still have sex, right? As a matter of fact, there's a school of thought that that you may even get a better erection. But the difference. But sex isn't all.

Grantley Martelly 26:18

Sex isn't all there is to life.

Neville Brewster 26:19

It's not all there is to life, particularly, particularly when you're within the all the range. Sex is okay, but life is important.

Grantley Martelly 26:28

Life is important, life is more important.

Neville Brewster 26:30

Life is for living. Live life. Get a live life. Life is for living. You know that singer? In 1982, I know what it was in Jamaican singer. You say life is just for living.

Grantley Martelly 26:42

Life is just for living, yeah. I was just thinking about it. I was just thinking about it.

Neville Brewster 26:47

Right? Don't worry about sex. Don't worry about those things. Those things are ancillary.

Grantley Martelly 26:54

Get information, right? You gotta get the information so you know what's going on inside your body. You can make wise decisions.

Neville Brewster 27:00

Make wise decisions and live. That my decision was based solely on extending my life living. I didn't want to know how much time I would have got that inside my body. Right. I want it out. Let me see how much time I get, but it'll fit it out. And I can tell you I got 12 years already.

Grantley Martelly 27:18

Yeah. So some of the guys in my my prostate cancer support group that I attend, and they have this saying that prostate cancer is no longer a death sentence, it is a life sentence, right? So life means that once you get the information, you make a wise decision, you deal with it, you can live a long life like you have. You can have, there's a couple of guys in our group who were diagnosed with stage four and are still alive 12 years, 15 years later. Because technology is improving all the time, science improving all the time, treatment all the time. So you to be afraid to know doesn't help you. Knowledge, knowledge is what helps you make the right decision. And and the other thing is getting away from these old wives there, right? That you're not going to be able to have sex, you're not going to be able to do that. The technology, even there, is increased is improving every day, right? And so what are some of the, what are three things that two more things, you already gave us one, two more things you could give to men to take control of their health. Like you said, you know, appreciate life and make wise decisions.

Neville Brewster 28:25

Early testing. Early testing. Offset cancer is prevalent in black males. I don't know if because of our sexual progress or what, or proclivity to to to to to to to to to to have sex regularly, but it's very prevalent in black males. Right. So as long as you know that you are at risk, any person in your family, I urge you to get tests early. A lot of people talk about finger tests. The finger test tells you the process is large. But yet there are blood tests now that you can do. I mean, I my doctor is there's one accredited with the K2, I think it's a K2 score of one of those that that that can tell you now if you have cancer.

Grantley Martelly 29:09

Yeah, there's a new blood test and there's a new urine test that can tell you if you have cancer. Correct. Yeah.

Neville Brewster 29:15

My doctor was one of the doctors that credit with that score.

Grantley Martelly 29:18

Yeah, so that that that helps with the argument and not knowing, right? Because you're here thinking that something's gonna happen, but you don't even know that there's a new test out there that that isn't even what you're thinking. Right, right. If you don't expose yourself to knowledge.

Neville Brewster 29:32

But but but still, if the finger test works, it works.

Grantley Martelly 29:35

It works, yeah.

Neville Brewster 29:35

And and understand, I mean, but you have to you have to find out. Right. The thing is to get tested.

Grantley Martelly 29:39

Yeah, get tested.

Neville Brewster 29:40

And don't wait until it's too late. If you have any symptoms whatsoever, don't wait. You know the problem in men, and it's unfortunate. Do you know that if a female gets sick today, she goes to the doctor? But if a male gets sick, you say I can get better?

Grantley Martelly 29:57

Yeah. I can be alright. I can be alright.

Neville Brewster 30:00

I give me all right. I can be alright.

Grantley Martelly 30:02

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 30:03

I give me all right.

Grantley Martelly 30:04

Yeah, to this bend over, till this curve bend over and pay and it's like to your wife, take me to the hospital.

Neville Brewster 30:10

I can be alright. Yeah. It doesn't work that way.

Grantley Martelly 30:12

It doesn't work that way.

Neville Brewster 30:13

You have to see doctors, but your body is the same.

Grantley Martelly 30:15

Yeah, it's the same body.

Neville Brewster 30:16

You have to look after that temple.

Grantley Martelly 30:18

Yeah, temple.

Neville Brewster 30:19

Go look after that temple. Make sure that you get your checks and regularly. Yeah. Get your checks. Get checked early. If you know they are, and if you know you're at risk, don't ever forget to get them checks.

Grantley Martelly 30:32

Don't ever forget and get your annual physical. Get your annual things. Get your annual physical.

Neville Brewster 30:36

I mean, I had to do mine as a senior exec.

Grantley Martelly 30:37

Because that helps you know also helps you get familiar with your body.

Neville Brewster 30:40

But yeah, I had I had to do mine. I had I had high blood pressure for years. That's controlled by medication. I had a, you know what I mean? So therefore you had to get heart tests. Every test that you could think of, I had to get.

Grantley Martelly 30:51

Yeah.

Neville Brewster 30:51

As a senior, as a senior, senior.

Grantley Martelly 30:54

That was that's similar to my story. I also had to get a physical, annual physical. So it was part of my requirements to go to the doctor, which in a way it helps us a little bit. But for the fellows who don't have that, you got to make the choice to go. Correct.

Neville Brewster 31:08

My brother's in father, they have that. So they had to make a choice to go. Yeah.

Grantley Martelly 31:11

Or you or one of my friends says, uh, let your wife remind you. You know, and let her make the appointment. Because he was telling me about 70% of the appointments that come to him are made by the spouse, yeah. But not not by the guy. And you there's nothing wrong with that if you want your wife to remind you to do. But you get back to what you were saying. The choice is living. So if your wife has to help you to live longer, then let me. Then let our egos go aside and say, yeah, let help me live longer. And think about your children. You know, the other factor is your children. You know, you may say, I feel all right, but think about those children who who you have as well, who are looking up to you and want to want you to be around.

Neville Brewster 31:55

That'd be there to be a good thing. They want you to be around.

Grantley Martelly 31:57

And they want you to see your grandchildren and stuff. So, fellas, we just want to say to you, you know, take control of your health. Don't just wait and say passive, yeah, we want to be tough, yeah, we want to say we can do it. But there's certain things in life that are happening inside of us that we need to know what's going on. And the only way we know what's going on is by getting our physical checkups, getting early detection testing, knowing our family history, and being informed. You can always make decisions where you're informed. Not being informed is where we get into problems, because then we wait for pain. And many of us know when it comes to things like heart disease, cancer, those kind of hypertension, pain, you don't want to wait for the pain because pain means that something has already gone wrong.

Neville Brewster 32:44

Yeah, it's gone wrong. And I I am not not aware if you if you know the um when prostate spreads and goes to the bones, it is one of the most painful deaths.

Grantley Martelly 32:57

Once it metastasizes. You could ever you could ever win. Yeah, it goes fast too.

Neville Brewster 33:02

It goes fast and it goes to the bones. If the rain blows, it hurts. Yeah.

Grantley Martelly 33:07

Well, thank you for your time. Really appreciate it. And um, guys, I hope you find this episode to be really enlightening and encouraging. And remember, we can take control of our health and we can make wise decisions without fear, and we can be around to support our family and our children and our grandchildren. So thank you for listening and see you the next time.

Neville Brewster 33:28

Thank you.

Grantley Martelly 33:29

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