One of my sisters has been dating a guy for a little over a year. She is a recent college graduate, but he is a bit older...36 years old.
All my sister has ever wanted in life is to be able to have children. She talks about how many children they are going to have, etc.
She came over last night for dinner, because I'm starting school again soon, and said that they were talking about getting married, and I was very excited for her.
Then later on in the evening she explained to me that her boyfriend used to be a smoker but "ever since he got throat cancer, he quit". I was drinking my coffee, and I said, "OH, did he have surgery," She said, "Yes, and radiation."
She must have saw the color drop out of my face.
She asked me what was wrong and I said, "Honey, I am not 100% sure, but I am pretty sure that radiation leaves a man sterile...he may want to have a sperm count if you two decide to get married, so you'll both go into it knowing if it's a possibility."
Now I feel bad because I probably shouldn't have told her that. She spent the rest of the evening in tears. I started thinking about it, and if he had radiation in the throat area, would that be far enough away from the testicular area or does it really matter?
