f1freak 0 #1 October 3, 2002 People like this make me feel so much better about myself... From the "Unusual Case" column of _Aspects of Human Sexuality_, July 1991, by William A Morton, Jr, MD. Reprinted without permission. "Scrotum Self-Repair" One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse. She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other than to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's problems." The patient, about 40, was pale, febrile [feverish], and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and black-and-blue scrotal skin. After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul- smelling stained gauze wrapped about his scrotum, which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood, extended down the left scrotum. Amid the matted hair, edematous [swollen] skin, and various exudates, I saw some half-buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several days earlier, he replied, he had injured himself in the machine shop where he worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun. The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up wallboard. We X-rayed the patient's scrotum to locate the staples; admitted him to the hospital; and gave him tetanus antitoxin, broad- spectrum antibacterial therapy, and hexachlorophene sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning. The procedure consisted of exploration and debridement [removal of dead skin] of the left side of the scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed [ripped or torn out] and was missing. The stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and the vessels ligated [tied off] properly, though not much of a hematoma [pocket of blood] was present. Through-and- through Penrose drains [?] were sutured loosely in site, and the skin was loosely closed. Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital less than a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me. An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work. I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification. Two thoughts: is this covered by Workmans' Comp? in a machine shop somewhere, somebody is asking "Hey Joe, what's the dog playing with over there"HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #2 October 3, 2002 so much for lunch... this guy sounds like a darwin award winner in training. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kinney29 0 #3 October 3, 2002 This should have come with a warning that men may experience extreme pain in reading this. From both feeling his pain and laughing till it hurts at how stupid this guy is. What the hell was his package doing so close to a saw or what ever cut him, and how much pain must you be in to staple things back together yourself? ^Go Big or Go Home^ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dp1l 0 #4 October 3, 2002 I'm not feeling very well! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meatmissile 0 #5 October 3, 2002 I wish I didn't just read this -- ZZZzzzz.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #6 October 3, 2002 Man, that is just nuts! << Runs and hides >> Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mouth 0 #7 October 3, 2002 Actually it's just NUT....he is missing one nut!!! -- Hot Mama At least you know where you stand even if it is in a pile of shit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
petur 0 #8 October 3, 2002 Oh, I did that once... really hurts!--- P. "It Hurts to Admit When You Make Mistakes - But When They're Big Enough, the Pain Only Lasts a Second." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #9 October 3, 2002 "ahhhh.... what a purdy belt sander you are, now come give daddy some luvin..."HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJL 235 #10 October 3, 2002 TRUE http://www.snopes.com/sex/penile/scrotum.htm"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brisco 0 #11 October 3, 2002 Thanks for making me laugh!! It's what got me breathing again after reading that!!! Brisco Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dp1l 0 #12 October 3, 2002 Got you breathing again!?!?! I am still feeling sympathy twinges! Especially after the doctor's response on one of the links Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mujie96 0 #13 October 3, 2002 NOT breakfast safe. Jess Just keep swimming...just keep swimming.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #14 October 3, 2002 It's just divine intervention... Something is helping us weed out the gean pool....HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #16 October 4, 2002 QuoteIt's just divine intervention... Something is helping us weed out the gean pool.... Yep...too bad it didn't get both testicles. I can only imagine that this guy doesn't date much anyway..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SanDiegoRW 0 #17 October 4, 2002 Darn and I was planning on taking a trip to the machine shop after work too.... -Kenny Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #18 October 4, 2002 eewww! Sometimes I am so glad I'm not a guy. What a friggin moron! "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites