WHEN Married At First Sight’s Ryan Livesey wet the bed he blamed it on having too many beers. But the 29-year-old ‘went instantly numb’ when he finally addressed the health issues he’d been ignoring for seven months, being told he had cancer . Just 22 at the time, and with a baby on the way with his ex-partner, Ryan was terrified that he wouldn’t see his son grow up or even be born.
"I started wetting the bed, it was really embarrassing but I put it down to having too much to drink and of course, I didn't tell anyone and hid it,” Ryan says. “I’d go to the toilet and not feel like I was emptying my bladder properly. “I’d have to go again 20 minutes later because I couldn’t hold it in Read more on real life “Looking back now, I should have known something was wrong but because the increase in frequency happened gradually, I was able to ignore it.
“If I’d gone to the doctors when I first experienced symptoms in 2016, things could have been different. “Every bloke reading this will know there are posters in public toilets with health messages on them but we tend to ignore them.” Ryan, now in remission, urges men to pay attention to their health and believes most men put it off out of embarrassment or pride.
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