Amazingly, two weeks after surgery for prostate cancer, Carl Engle hiked five miles in the Boise foothills. To his buddy, who also had prostate cancer surgery, and has a 4-inch scar across his belly to prove it, that was a miracle. To Carl, that was only part of the miracle. It was a day in 2001, when he heard Saint Alphonsus announcing free prostate screenings. A native Idahoan, and co-owner of CJ Precision Machine in Boise, Carl is a baby boomer who, like many of his generation, spent most of his life taking his good health for granted. But on this particular day, he felt urgency from within to take up the free offer and have a prostate check-up. Being an active kind of guy, Carl expected a clean bill of health.
