Discussing charity drives is something we like to do from time to time around here at the South West Voice.
Movember hasn’t come under our microscope before so when this photograph of Campbelltown Emergency Department doctors and nurses landed on our desk we just could not resist the temptation.
Nor did we need the sort of punning prompting that came with the photo: “Staff from Campbelltown Hospital’s Emergency Department are putting in a mo-mentous effort to grow their mo and change the face of men’s health’’, wrote the funny health service media guy who sent it out.
No, being a man myself what I find interesting about Movember is that those who take part in it risk being ridiculed.
Around the office just before Movember there are always conversations about facial hair growth.
Not that Movember is a competition as such to find the biggest moustache, but the conversations will take place anyway.
It’s a fact that some men can grow a thick mo in a few days or a week, while others can take weeks or months.
But what I found was interesting was that the thought of being exposed as less hirsute than your male colleagues did not stop too many men from taking part in such a worthwhile cause.
Movember is all about men’s health of course and money raised goes towards the mighty effort to reduce the number of men who die prematurely from things like prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health issues that can lead to suicide.
So good on all of the men who every year grow a mo in November, but especially those who need a lot more than a month to do so.
It takes a real man to do that.
One mo thing: If you want to support the doctors and nurses from Campbelltown Hospital emergency department or find out more about their cause visit their Movember link here.
