Helping to keep the men you love healthy

Women often have to keep track of not only their health, but also the health of the males in their life as many men are rarely do so themselves. — TNS

Dear Healthy Men: I love my family, but I’m very frustrated about having to manage almost everyone’s health. While my daughter and I schedule our own doctor visits and mammograms, my husband and two teenage sons never do. In fact, I just spent half the morning making appointments (physicals for my sons, and a physical, colonoscopy, ECG [electrocardiogram] and dermatology checkup for my husband). I’m doing all this because I love them, but honestly, I resent having to take care of things my husband and sons should be doing for themselves. Am I alone in this?

You’re definitely not alone; I often hear from women who, like you, have discovered that men’s health is a women’s issue and resent that the responsibility for keeping the males in their life (fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, boyfriends) healthy has fallen to them.