Ken Carpenter, Dr. Terrell Carpenter, Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas

We're talking Prostate Cancer with Ken Carpenter, Dr. Terrell Carpenter, and Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Time with this talking and home away.

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Speaker 4 (00:39):
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
We are rocking and rolling on this Monday, December first,
twenty twenty five. Enjoyed this fabulous day to day. As
I said earlier, this day, me and I want you listening.
You need to listen to this back again, my very
special guest in the studio, mister Ken Coppenter, doctor Terrell Coppenter,

(01:09):
and my bishop is here from the first Episcopal District,
the sixty second Bishop of the c Church, Bishop Marvin
Frank Thomas. And let me say good afternoon to you,
lady and gentlemen. How y'all doing good? Heaven y'all here. Hey,

(01:31):
we're starting the season off right right right. Ken. I
am so glad you're back with me because I know
this subject is so important to you and it's important
to me because we need to get our men out
of when we talk about prostate cancer. You know, I
want you to begin by telling our listeners a little

(01:53):
bit about your story.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Okay before I do that, Yes, before you do, yes,
you can said thank you to Sheila Homer and my
g w C Carport classmates seventy one for actually connecting
us and bringing this show to the light here. And
also the men of Alphabai Alpha Fraternity. Okay, we have

(02:16):
joined Founders Day there, you know, we're found a December
fourth and we'll be celebrating at Oak Grove Baptist Church
this Sunday.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh good.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Thanks to our presidents of Alfadeltha Lambda, Devin Pattison and
Sigma or Lambda Alex Marshall for making all that happen,
for joining us all together. So well, you know my
story I started when I first got diagnosed and kind

(02:44):
of tough. You know, you were diagnosed with PRIs State Council. Yes, yes,
it's kind of paralyzing. Therefore, with their she doctor Carpet
and my wife really started me to go into patient's
rooms and told me said, look, you need go here
and talk to these guys. You have a story to tell,
you know. And I did. And so that's what advocacy

(03:07):
actually started. And we took that advocacy from our clinic
carping to primary health care into the community where we
uh then ninety three men, ninety three men screened. Wowety
three was there okay? And so that was done on
the carpro and primary health care. So we decided to
open up our five O one C three because we

(03:28):
knew more it needed to be done and couldn't be
done on the carbon and primary health care.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
And that foundation is the Prostate Education Awareness just.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
The five one C three PIAK, that is the ACADYM.
And we've had so much support with what we were
doing and we've been out screening the big things that
we were able to partner with Quest Diagnostics.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Wherever we go, they go.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
They believed in our mission and we asked them to
and they said, yes, we will. They have made it
easy for us by you know, we ask, look how
much you know it takes about seven six hundred and
twenty five to seven hundred dollars to scream a men
one man with all seven point testing.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, ma'am. Wow.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
They have made it, you know, at a rate where
we can go into the community and ask why and
they say, well, we want you to scream more men,
and so we are able to do so and so
men must take advantage of what we're doing because we
want them to show up. We don't want to have
Quests to bring out all their resources, which doctor Carmon

(04:33):
can tell you a lot of what they do and
what they.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Bring to the table and not show up.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Now, what would happen at that point, Well, I mean
they may not or may decide it's not worthwhile their time.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
But right now it has beened and we want to
keep it that way.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
And that's why I wanted to connect with all the men,
men of organizations.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
The bishop.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
I mean, we can do a lot and we have done, yes,
and that's as we're leaving, young ladies were congratulating us
on the work that we've done right, and we have
screened in the twelve month period over two hundred and
three men free of charge free fr yes, ma'am free.

(05:15):
So we have made an impact, a quick impact. But
thanks to Quest being our partner, yeah, and we are
able to make this happen. So we've been after all
zip codes, at least three of them with our third
zip COLDE because that's what we'll decide to do, go
around the different zip codes. That was suggestion Trust Marketing
one of our partners. You've been helping us with this

(05:38):
and through this. So we are now running going to
the three eight one four. That's how the lunch man community.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh good, good Saturday.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
So oh I love that kid. And how are you
doing today?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm fine, I really am good.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Well, first I have to say that, you know, I,
like most men, I have a doctor.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
You have.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
You have a doctor in.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Your mil with one, so I have guidance. I'm doing fired.
I really am you look well, thank you. Well, I'm
seventy one years of age.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Oh brother, you're looking younger than that. Well you better
watch out, watch out, he's looking you out. Watch.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm pleased. I didn't supposed to be here because we
have so many deaths. I stay cancer in our family.
Oh really yes, yes, yes, and my mother you know
I met my mother, yes, on ninety seven. She told
me back when I was sixties, say the carping them
boys don't usually live or get out of their sixties
and so, and that's true because on my side, cousin side,

(06:42):
I mean, yeah, a lot of death, cancer deaths period.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you for explaining. I'm blessed.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
You are blessed, you are blessed. I want to bring
in doctor Carpner. Move that, so Doctor Coppran this, this
is so important for these men to get tested for
if I state cancer.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yes, ma'am so so important. So being our primary health
care provider of Carpon and primary health care, one of
the things I focus on is making sure men and
women get come in and get their physical exams. So
important once a year, come in and get your physical
So for a man, I usually start at the age
of forty, especially if you have a family history of

(07:22):
prostate cancer, and making sure that they get their PSA
numbers checked. And unfortunately, if I get somebody who has
an elevated PSA, of course I have to have that
conversation with you, okay, And so normally how that starts
is I have you come back into the office, we
discuss your results. You know what the next plan of
care is. And usually if your a PSA level is

(07:43):
elevated and the Norman let me say this, and the
normal PSA is zero to four, So anything over four,
you know we need it's time to refer you to
a specialist, which is called the urologists. Yes, and the
urologists that I use, you know, ninety five percent of
the time. And you probably know this is doctor Walter Rayford. Yeah,
and yeah, and doctor rafferd. He is our director of

(08:06):
our board PX board as well. So, and how this
all started. Men will come in with an elevated p s. A.
I have that conversation and I'm telling them what their
results are. And then of course the first thing is
they have that deer in the head like, look like,
I don't want to talk to you about this. And
so that's how I ended up getting kin involved him
having him go into the room and and have that

(08:27):
conversation somebody. They will they will feel comfortable with all.
They always feel uncomfortable with the female. Yeah, so this
is kind of how our mission started. So, and I
just know a lot of men, you know, they kind
of suffer in silence, and so our task is to
get them to come out and to be screened and
and get tested and to find out what the plan
of care is. So you'll feel more comf comfortable with

(08:49):
this because you don't have to you don't have to
you don't have to be silent.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
You don't have to be sided, and you don't have
to suffer.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Exactly, yeah, exactly, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
You don't have to suffer. I love that doctor Coppley.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Early early detection is the key to survival.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Early detections.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Man.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Okay, So I want to see can how we get
our bishop involved, Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas, who is the
first episcocal district and Bishop Thomas, how you get involved
in and the seeing me church?

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Well, let me let me if I can sure tell
my story. Okay, Yes, I'm a prostate cancer survivor.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh I didn't know that, Bishop, Yes, And.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
I think that's why, probably why I was home and
invited you to invite me to be a part of
this conversation. And back in two thousand and four, two
thousand and five, I was pastoring a church in Chicago
and I would pick my son up and he may
have been maybe ten years old. I would pick him

(09:57):
up from school and Marvin junie, you're in and out
of nowhere, he would He would asking this question, Dad,
you've been to the doctor. I said no, He said
you're going. I said well yeah, he said well when?
And you know and that quot that that that that
set of questions would would come randomly for a period

(10:19):
of time. So at some point after that, my mother,
uh and I grew up in tulscal Loose, Alabama. My
mother I was having surgery. So I left Chicago and
went to Tuscaloosa for a couple of weeks to kind
of be with my mother. And as I was getting
ready to leave, I told my mother, I said, well,
I want to go see doctor Hill.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Uh. He was a member of the church I.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
Grew up here in Tuscaloosa, and uh he was my
primary care when I lived in Tulcaluser, my primary primary physician.
Inside somehom go see doctor Hill, and I'm gonna get this,
uh this exam, this physical. So when I get back
to Chicago and Marvin said, Dad, you've been to the doctor,
I'm going to say yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
And here's what the doctor said.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, I got the The day before I was to leave,
I went to see doctor Hugh. And then because of
the family relation and his connection to our family and
to our church, he called my aunt, my mother's sister,
late that night of my appointment and told my aunt
to tell me that I needed to come see him
before I left Tuscaloosa that morning, and don't worry about anything.

(11:20):
Just when I come to the office, say he's already.
He would alert his staff to just put me in
his office and as soon as he gets a break
between a patient between patients, he would come in and
see me. So he did that. He came in and
told me my PSA was elevated. And as soon as
I got back to Chicago, he said, go see a
urologist as soon as you get back to Chicago. It's

(11:40):
when I got back to Chicago, I noticed a hospital
in the Western suburb area where I was living was
having prosed cancer screening. So I said, well, I'm save
some money, I'm gonna go over here. And I went
over there and had to screen it. And they called
me and asked me to come immediately to see them,
and cancer was just reading and he said, you know,

(12:01):
it's it's it's a good thing that you've come and
said that. You know, we don't have any options. We
got to go radical, the radical away and uh. And
I thank God to this day that my son, the
God used my son ten years old at that time
to start putting into me this awareness of my I

(12:24):
need to care for myself and so he if I
had not been going to be smart and to get
ahead of him, then I would probably not be here today.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Wow. And so for for a number of years.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Then you know, when I had the surgery, I you know,
they ripped my rectum, so I had to wear a
colossomy bag. But sometimes stuff happens, and and so and
and and the church that I served, I you know,
I was transparent, let them know what was going on.
They took good care of me. And and even one
of the members called and said, uh, because the doctors

(12:58):
then my eurologists said well, you know, we're going to
do some radiation. And I was sharing with the congregation,
and so one of the members called and said, would
you consider before you get the radiation, would you consider
another opinion. So a russ Hospital, Rush Hospital, that was
a a doctor there, urologist, doctor Laverne. I went to
see him and he said, no, we're not going to

(13:20):
do them ready, We're gonna do something else. And so
I started going to see him every six months, and
for about two or three years, and even after I
moved from Chicago, I came back every six months to
see him. And then at one point of a couple
of years and he said, you're cancer free. And so
that was the same from two thousand and eight till

(13:41):
about two thousand to twenty one, twenty two, had no problems,
and then all of a sudden they start rising again.
When I got to Memphis, I ended up having to
my insurance.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Stuff was all.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
Mixed up and bobulated, and I went to one hospital
and they wouldn't see me because of the an insurance
here in Memphis. And then a friend of mine who
used to work at Methodist Hospital, doctor Albert Moseley, he
saw what was going on with me. I was sharing
because I share a lot of stuff on Facebook, transparent
and invite people to share my journey. And uh, he

(14:17):
called and told me he was going to call somebody,
and they got to see me. They saw me, you know,
and blessed me in a lot of ways. And so
I went through. I was scheduled for thirty five treatments
of radiation. At number twenty four, they told me I
don't have one more, and so every and then that

(14:37):
was in twenty that was in the first of last year,
and I got I finished just in time to go
to Rome to meet the Pope. I mean just in
time to go to Rome to meet the Pope.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
And uh and as a result of that, I mean,
I just I mean and all of my follow ups
have been.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Known that detectans whatsoever.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
Sorry, you know, I'm in I'm in this room, and
I tell my story and I shared it on Facebook
because I won't. I want men to understand that you
this is important, this is your life. Yes, you know,
there's some things that happened to you in this process,
and I can understand you know why. Uh, you know,
men may not sometimes you know, I want to talk

(15:23):
to a female, but I've learned now that you talk
to whomever God places in your in your in your
view to be a part of your healing processes.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
And uh.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
And I've had female and collegests and urologists who shared
my journey.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
You know, I'm done with all that other stuff. I'm
trying to be well, right, I'm trying to be well.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
And so I would encourage every brother who's listening, and
I would encourage every sister to tell every brother, yes
that you know that their health is too important. And
prostate cancer in terms of how it how it is
prevalent in the African American community, I did not realize
and I don't want to take up all the time,

(16:04):
but let me just say one more thing. When I
woke up from my surgery in two thousand and four,
two thousand and five, in Chicago, my uncle, my dadd's brother,
my dad died when I was a kid. My dad's
brother was standing in the room. But the interesting thing
is before I left Chicago the next year, I buried

(16:28):
him and didn't know until then that he had prostate
cancer and how prevalent that is in our community and
then in our family. And then after I got it,
my oldest brother got it. And so the other thing
I want to say is we got to tell our

(16:49):
health history to our family. Yes, and because it's important,
because I'm sitting around here didn't even know that this
was running rapid in my family because we we talk.
We talk about everything. We talk about the Chicago baths
and the New York jets, but we don't talk about

(17:09):
us in terms of our health.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, I'm sorry, No, you Bishop, I'm glad because I
didn't know your story. And I'm sure a lot of
us who are seeing means don't know your story if
we haven't looked on Facebook or no. But thank you
for sharing that, right, And so, doctor Carpenter, So it is.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Runs in families exactly, and that's why we need to
stay on top of it. It's the second leading the
second leading cause of cancer.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
And African American African American.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
And one in every eight men would be diagnosed with
prostate cancer and one in every six black man.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
So that's how prevalent it is.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Wow, So ken what you all are doy that I
love this. The free screening you have one coming up?

Speaker 5 (18:01):
We do That is Saturday, December sixth, from ten to one.
We'll be an ounch mawn Community Center. Oh yeah, no,
I'm sure that's the three eight one one four.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
The co Okay down the street from my church, right church?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah, and we've you know, we're jumping around. We've been
to uh three eight one one six twice for screening.
We went to three eight one oh six. Now we're
three eight one one four and twenty twenty six. We're
want to be moving around Shelby County. I need help though, Okay,
excuse my boys. That's okay, a holiday weekend, got no,

(18:43):
I know, I know we need I wrote and I
sent it to the bishop some things that would be.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Helpful, okay, to keep us afloat, okay.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
And to keep me in Afloat and their families, because
it's just not a man's thing, a family thing is
You'd be surprised of the people I have to advocate
and talk to. She sent women in to talk and
one lady a couple of weeks ago, I had to

(19:13):
talk to her because her husband just took a one
hundred and sixty degree term when he had prostate cancer.
He didn't trust her. She said, I can't hardly go
out of the house. He called me every time. I mean,
just the lack of trust he didn't. It just changed him.
And so that's a family thing, you know, she's suffering.

(19:38):
So family, yes, And so she said, I'm to my
wits end. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
She said.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
I told him I'm not going to leave him, but
that didn't matter. So those kind of things the conversations
I have to have with me and I do on
a frequent basis because she sent them to me.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Because, believe me, the numbers up.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
I mean, we have look there when we look at
African American means, we have risk factors. We're talking about
well for me, age okay, okay, but then there's the genetics,
there's the race okay, we're the most likely to get
prostate cancer and the most likely to die from it. Now,

(20:20):
if you ask some other factors that you call was
the COLN, worbid or whatever they may look, Yes.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
All those other things you deal with.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Ye, yes, I talked to the guys and you know
they ask me, well, I can't be intimated.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Your blood pressure high? You know you've got diabetes. You know,
are you drinking?

Speaker 5 (20:36):
All those other factors that go into all of that.
Smoking is another one. Yes, So yes, we're doing what
we can. Okay, and but you need help.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
We need help.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
And here's some things I wrote, and I even sent
to the bishop and asked him to, you know, to
share it with him. And if you lead an organization,
I mean you can build male or female, you know,
if you me and we are everywhere. Yeah, okay, encourage
your members and men to get tested. Be an example

(21:11):
and get tested yourself. Invite an advocate to speak to
your organization like us. Now, what's good about us is
that you're going to get a medical perspective along with
a living survival advocate experience. And so we team up.
I always make sure she go with me, because you

(21:33):
know it's going to turn to the diabetes.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
The questions I can't answer. You know, another fact that
it's medical. So that's what we get. Host a free
screening event they should host. We need locations like one
we have coming up.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
Now at the Orange Brian Harris Youth Service Division with
the City of Memphis.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, I feeled out a paperwork. He took care
of it. You know I need that kind of help.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
You know, identify the survivors in your organization because they're there. Yeah,
they're there. There are a lot of them too, believe me. Okay,
you're African American male.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
If he's a Harold Scottie Scott Scotti.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
I will bring some names up at a ball But
and you have let us come here and have a conversation.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, ESPN J.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Harris, you've invited with doctor Rayford, you've been so good
to us. Organized survivor family meetings because women are suffering,
families are suffering.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Let them share, let them talk because they have something
to say.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
That's if I told you a moment ago about the
about the Lady Memorialized Parsonally cancer deaths in your family
or organization.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Just don't let them pass away and be forgotten.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah, and educate yourself on the importance of getting tested.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yes, if a man needs if you're a man, you
need to know, Okay.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
And also to donate port to support we have a
campaign to support free testing. Okay, donate give us some
money so we can you know, continue testing.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
So this is free.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well, yeah, because because a lot of men, Bishop, like
you said, insurance, they don't have insurance, they don't have money.
And so that's that's why I told my men listeners,
listen today, get that free screening. And Bishop, I want
to ask you, how how would you put this out
to our members of the Seeing Me Church.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Well, I mean I was just sitting here thinking I would,
first for Saturday, I would, you know, from my office,
will send out a good communication really encouraging men in
the West Tennessee region to go to be tested and
uh into and to share that they've been, so that

(23:52):
we will know that they've been. The other thing I
was thinking is we've got to find a way in
which two wholesome maybe one or two testing events at.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
A couple of our churches, you know.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, And I mean I was you know, probably Seeing
Me is on this listening to us.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
They don't know that.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
I come up with stuff when I get inspired, and
but I've heard some things. I mean, you know, a
gathering of men where you know, we have the conversation,
you know, and then you know, I think the other
piece to to you know, that might be helpful is

(24:39):
having someone who can talk to brothers, you know, because
you're gonna run into some brothers who are single and
how they're going to navigate on the other side of this,
you know. And then you know the mental health piece,
you know, because it it affects one.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean it you have to decide on the other
side of it.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
Because when I when I tell you back when I
had had the radical surgery back in two thousand and four,
two thousand and five, got back home, it seems like
every time I picked up the newspaper reading about somebody
who died of prostate cans, I like, Lord, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
But but celebrate people who live, who.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
Who survivors, and then memorialize, as you said, persons. And
that's something we we we probably should do, is to
celebrate I mean memorialized persons. Have a memorial, you know,
like we do people who died in the war, you know,
because you know, it's it's a part of our journey.

(25:47):
And then it brings awareness to the seriousness of prostate camps.
And then it also it gives persons an opportunity to
remember to live and to say, celebrate the life of
one who has passed away as a result of prostate
And then it may be the illest for that kid,

(26:10):
that that nephew who was twenty years ago old when
Uncle so and so died, Now he's forty five or whatever.
And and and for uncle, I'm gonna go do this,
you know, because I realized this is this, this is
in my family. See, and so anyway, and I was

(26:33):
just thinking about anyway in which the first Scopal District
can partner and make this for the awareness. But we'll
get we'll get the notice out about Saturday, but there
will be some other kinds of things intentional that we'll
work on together. And I have a friend, a colleague

(26:55):
who's an a designing bishop and I'll see I'll see
him in a couple of weeks and talk to him about,
you know, how to get the thesions in this area
involved as well.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah, we get that microphone over and it's so important.
We've got to get the women involved.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I mean, yeah, women.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
I mean, ye, dad, get.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Your dad, you're your brother, your nephews. I mean the
women need to be yes involved as well too. Sure
a lot of times we're the ones they can get
the men into.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
The doctor and then the women and usually have to take.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Care of them.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Hern doctor Carpenter Hunt, exactly, exactly true. I love Bishop
what you just said. How the see of me church
couldn't get involved. I love that, and and and and
I'm sure doctor Carpenter and kid loves it when you
said partner with them. Another kid. That's another blessing, another one.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
You had so many, and you have been one of them.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
I mean, seriously, Bell, you really have When I call
and reach out and say, look we need to I'm
having a screening like with this one. I really needed
you this time, and just so happened we have another blessing.
And the reason I say this time is because we've
been advertising. Okay, we only have nine men. Oh no,
we only have nine Come on in, now, come on

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in now.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I don't know how to face quest diagnostics.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, you just only have nine men.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
So why they bring to the aid to the table
with quests when they come out.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
They do so much.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
We are blessed because Quest when we presented our proposal
to them in terms of what we were trying to do,
they were just elated and said, we want to partner
with you because they've never done it before. Nobody's ever
approached them ever before on anything reaching out to the
community of this magnitude. So their account executives said, we're

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on board with you. So Quest is housing our practice.
So we have a good relationship with Quests. So they
bring so much to the table. They're bringing their phlebotomists,
the account executives are coming. They come to each green
and we have like four phlebotomists that come. They're spending
their time. Coming on a Saturday, right, wants on a Saturday,
most people want to stay home and relaxed. So they're

(29:05):
actually coming out. They're bringing all of the equipment. Yeah,
the blood to spin down, the blood infuge, everything.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
That goes with that, the packaging, the courier piece. I mean,
all of that is in house.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
And and least Ken said that's an expense, Oh sure,
then itself okay.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
And so we don't want to disappoint.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, question, I don't want you to because I said
that the last numbers of the men out, that's what
the last screening, how many menuing you had?

Speaker 2 (29:35):
We had eighty two.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Eighty two, So we need we need to come on
Saturday and Orange Mound Rich, Bishop me, you all get
tested men. So Ken, do they have to register? Can
they walk to the door?

Speaker 2 (29:49):
All right? I can they can walk? They can walk. Yes,
our volunteers would be there waiting register them. Okay.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
They can also go online, and that is we do
have a We have a website.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
They can go to.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
It's secure website. Okay, so you know you have to
do the HTTPS and all of that. But it's pack
dash Memphis dot org.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I got it.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
That's our website. Do it again, pac dot Memphis. It's
not sorry, let me repeat that, pac dash Memphis dot org.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Okay. And they can go to on the home page.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
They scrolled down far enough, they'll see a big page
they're a flyer.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Or they can go to event registration and just sign
up themselves.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay. If y'all can't do that, don't have a computer.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Walk on in. Then walk walk on in.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Because after Saturday, I want Ken to call me and
tell me he had Bishop these many numbers. I want
more than nine.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Every time I've been on your show, a number of
spiked every time. Well, I hope they spoke with eighty
two last time. I mean, look, I can't say enough
for what you've done for us and the men in
this community.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
And I'm looking at you all to prostate cancer survivors
in the room with me, that's a blessing.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Another blessing is men Saturday. It's free. You don't have
to spend any money, right, doctor Carpenter, it's free. It's free.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And also the registration is not a long process.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
A couple of.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Email address just in case we're a long time, and
one thing to let me say.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
We do statistics, okay, on our events, and we look
at the numbers. We track the numbers, we checked the
elevated PSA levels, Doctor Carpenter, when quests and those evaluations
after her, she make notes on them and we get
them back to the patients.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
And our last screening that was at Saint Augustine Catholic Church,
and let me say thank you father, which is my church. Okay,
Hunt Stephan Brown, you know he told me prior to
the screening he said, I have a story to tell,
and he said, I've never told anyone. He said, I
want to do it at your event, because see we

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I went to the church, to the to to our
parents that say, look, we want to have the bend here.
But I had no idea what he's gonna talk about.
He said, I do have a prostate cancer story. I said, wow, wow,
And he did, and he shared it among all the
We had one hundred some people in there.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, this was the this was the screening.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Event, screening events, and he said it was the first
time I've shared this story with anyone.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
He I've held it.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
His numbers he doesn't have cancer. His numbers elevated though, yeah,
and so he's got a scare where he has to
now make sure at track his number. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
so you know those kind of things. But on the
statistics part, we screen eighty two, we had over about
twenty three twenty four meion.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
With elevated wow yeah PSA levels. So that's true to
the statistics.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Okay, say one and six, one and four okay for us, Okay, okay,
I love it. I love that many elevated PSA. So
we get it back to them and say, look, Stipp
you to go sererologist. Okay, And it is at that
point I love what you're doing. Can in your foundation? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, So the.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Results come come to me, okay, Carpenter. So I review
all the results. So everything is confidential, and so what
I do is I put my little informational on the
relab results.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
So that if it's if the test is elevated, then.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
I will say look and we need to go back
to your PCP, follow up with your PCP, or you
need to be referred to a neurologists. So there is
communication in terms of even if I have to make
a personal call, I do.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
That as well.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Sounds good, good, good free at free.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I love how you all have shared the information. Uh
that's coming up again on Saturday. Ken tell them where
you all gonna be the.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Free testing testing.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
We'll be at the Orange Man Community Center and that
would be in the Starting community.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Across from the stadium.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Merye there you go?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
What time again? Ten to one?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Ten to one? Can I say one thing?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah? Before you do that, let me get I want
to get Bishop Marvin Frank Thomas, last words, Bishop, you'd
like to say to our listeners about this again.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Let me encourage all of our men and and women
go and take your men. Uh if you have to
hook tie them, take them. It's too important that they
missed this opportunity to be tested. The statistics are there,
they're not in our favor, but we can change the narrative.

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And we can change the narrative by being proactive and
to be and and to discover that you may have
an elevated PSA score does not it's not the end
of your world. It just means that you've got to
create a plan to address the challenge, the health challenge
that you have. I'm a living example of what happens

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when the community works together, when you take care of
yourself in terms of responding to devastating news that you
do not run from it. You face it head on.
And then you're blessed to have people professionals, urologists and
all doctors and agencies who are there for you and

(36:04):
will share the journey with you. I mean, I've been
blessed with eurologists in several states and including here in Tennessee.
Person to take your care to heart, you become a
family member. And so I'm reaching out to my brothers
as a brother, please Saturday, and especially the men and

(36:25):
the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, please show up for the
screening on Saturday. I'll be traveling, but I'll be praying
for the success of this. And God has provided an
opportunity for you to address to know because it's one thing.
I mean, if I had not gone because trying to

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be smart and get ahead of my son, I may
not be here, you see. And so here's an opportunity.
So I strongly encourage you with every fiber of my
being to be present on Saturday and to see the test.
God bless you and take good care of yourself. We're
a village and this is just one of those village moments.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Yeah, I know, Dot pull that over the microphone over there.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Just wanted to say we're all members of the Divine Nine.
Yes to Alpha man. I'm a Delta woman.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
And you know what our mission and all of us
have our own mantra motto follow and that is community service. Yes,
and that's what we're doing. Yes, And that's exactly what
we're doing. And we're trying to make this our life
mission to gi back to our community.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Dr Coppenter at my my sor R too. All right, Ken,
I'm let you have these last words you will say
to our listeners.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
I do want to at least acknowledge a couple because
I'm gonna a couple of people I need them next
year West Cancer Foundation and uh, that was zero Prostate
Cancer with Man and Man Support Group. They were ours
presenting sponsors for the event. Okay, that that was Helly
Saint Augustine thanks to carry Burnett there and Clarence Williams

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and Man the Man.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
So I need them.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
But I also want to recognize other guys that Howard Robertson.
I I can't say enough of this guy. He was
with us from the very he and his wife, Beverly
we've sat down at the table. They the reason we
go through to not to all aspects, all areas of
nine on one is something that they said, Okay, and
there is a little scribbling somewhere, a little statement that

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on one of.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Our brochures that says, uh, and I quote.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
From him, say, we won't meant to understand, okay, what's
going on in their bodies so they can keep living
for themselves and their families. Howard Robertson okay, author of PAK,
part of the website. Why PAK is important. They have
been there for us. I have to acknowledge him. And
also Derek, doctor Derek Page, he's been there with us too, okay.

(38:58):
So yeah, and he helped us get out that we
was in his hip coat. Yeah at doing San diegustline.
That was a one oh six U and I needed
him and he brought guys out and to get tested.
So being an example, yes, that's the main, main thing,
an example, that's right, help us outright, help yourself out,
to be honest, that's right.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Exact yourself out.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
So I just wanted to say something to uh and
also the volunteers, because we have a group of volunteers
that have now latched on and said what you all are.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Doing are important. It's important. We're going to be there
with you whenever you need us. So we'll be calling them.
I love it.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
And again tomorrow Saturday, Orange Mound Community Center and you're
starting at ten o'clock, ten o'clock, and y'all heard heard
Kennon says, if you don't don't know how to register,
walk on through and walk on through. And again, Doc Carpra,
I'm glad you said, we're we are all part of
the Divine Nine. And all those fraternities Alpha and and

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Sigma and Kappa and Omega and Iota, come on in,
come on out, support this brother, these brothers right.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Thank you, Thank you all for being here, having.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Bishop, Thank you for sharing your story. We never knew,
but now we know. Now we know, and so can
you know. And so the bishop told you, I'm gonna
hold him to it, say you gonna partner with get
get I seeing me church involved.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
We gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Brother, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Ken Coppenter, Doctor Terrell Coppenter, and my bishop, Bishop Marvin
and Frank Thomas of the First Episcopal District of the
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Thank y'all for being here. I
appreciate aid y'all.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Thank you Bill.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
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cool head, y'all, and don't let anyone steal your joy.

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Until tomorrow, I'm Bev Johnson and y'all keep the faith.