“Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Hov.”

Many of you know me as this bearded fellow. I really like having a beard, it suits me. But I shaved it, it’s all gone, hasta luego, outtie 5G. I did it because I’m taking part in Movember to raise awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer.

Just about a week ago I found out my grandfather was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Just typing that was a real son of a bitch. Partly because cancer is real a son of a bitch, but mostly because my Papaw is probably the single greatest man I’ve ever known.

I’m talking about a man who was a career coal miner. A man who had the roof of a mine collapse on him, break his back, make it out of the mine alive and eventually return to earn his pension. He did this because he didn’t want to see his son or his grandsons do the work he had to do to make a living. Finding out cancer is attacking the one person I always looked up to and saw as nearly invincible was a tough blow. He deserves better.

With that thought in mind I began thinking what I could do. Everyone has told me to be positive and enjoy the time I have with him when I see him, talk to him about it, comfort him, I could go on… But I really want to do something! So I decided to become an activist.

Now I know giving is an extremely personal thing and if you have several causes you already donate to then I want to thank you for being a generous soul. I would like to humbly request any donation to help whip cancer’s ass for my grandpa. He’d like that and I would appreciate it. I will be giving to the cause too because the way I see it I shouldn’t ask you to do something if I’m not willing to do it myself.

This will be the first time I’ve ever tried to grow a mustache so we’ll see how it goes, I’m sure it will be a lot of fun. Who knows I may do something creative with my ‘stache for those who donate. If you have any ideas just put them in the comment section below.

If you would like to donate to my Movember and sponsor my mustache please click here. 

Thanks for your time and contributions,
Ben