Friday

the room where testicles go to die

Someone very close to me had a vasectomy this week. He says it hurt(s) about 100 times worse than "they" said it would.

I'll have to ask him if this RATHER AMUSING DESCRIPTION of one guy's snippage is accurate.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ouch.

karrie said...

I'd like to feel sorry for him--he's entertaining--but I just do not. When he's had a needle jabbed repeatedly in his spine during contractions and c-section following a couple days of labor and 6 hours of trying to push out a 10lb baby, then he can bitch. ;)

Anonymous said...

they should never have left the 'stuff' there for him to see! Isn't it standard medical procedure to hide all that from the patient?

Anonymous said...

ZERO sympathy for any man getting a vasectomy. Life is easy when you are a man unless you have prostate problems, then I feel bad.

Anonymous said...

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senormedia said...

>He says it hurt(s) about 100 times worse than "they" said it would.

He's a wimp or they did something wrong.

I was doing the post op therapy within three days [ask him :)]

Anonymous said...

What is post-op therapy for a vasectomy? If it is what I think it is and you could not resist doing "it" even three days after having your balls crushed cut and and burned, you were probably a good candidate for sterilization. You go boy! I am glad you are man enough to mutilate your man-organ and claim it felt like cherry pie!

Anonymous said...

gosh what a bunch of man haters. I feel sorry for your husbands. especially Dewis. my gosh..I cant believe someone can claim to love a man yet say something so incredibly hateful like that. now THATS "hate speech"!!!!!

Anonymous said...

And then there's this: http://snipurl.com/qteo

I don't feel sorry for them either.

senormedia said...

>your balls crushed cut and and burned... mutilate your man-organ

Wow, you don't know shit about what a vasectomy entails, do you?

Anonymous said...

Life is NOT easy for all men. Try being a young African-American man. Try being a gay man. Try being a man who is not as big and strong as other guys and gets pushed around by them. Life is hard for many, many people. Men are not the enemy--the way our society is structured hurts them, too. You can assert they get more of the 'goodies' but at what price to many men's emotional well-being? When my father was working 60-70 hours a week to support 6 kids, a sick wife and both sets of grandparents, he had NO ONE to turn to to talk about how hard it was.

Anonymous said...

totally right person above. I was absolutely appalled that a woman who is "supposedly" happily married to a man could say such a thing.

Anonymous said...

I have a buddy who got the traditional cut, tie and cauterize type vasectomy. His Dr. slipped and dropped the vas back in and had to go fishing for it. The ensuing trauma left him with internal bleeding that didn’t stop until two weeks later when he found a new Dr. to go back in and fix things up again. He was telling me he could hear conversations out in the hall, "Hey, you gotta see this guy. His scrotum looks just like an avocado." There was an endless parade of other doctors interested to inspect and offer a second opinion.

His story was influential in my decision to pay the extra $400 for the vasclip type vasectomy (see www.vasclip.com) when I had mine done. For me, the whole surgery was completely bloodless and there was no discomfort in recovery at all. I did sit on a bag of frozen popcorn kernels, but I don’t think I needed to.

The new nurse at the office sat down with me and gave me the post-op consultation. She presented me with a couple pint-sized specimen jars. Although she seemed uncomfortable with the topic, she proceeded to instruct me, apparently by reciting her instructions from rote memory. "After one month and at least 14 ejaculations, you need to produce a sample for this jar..."

I took a look at that giant, pint-sized jar and replied, "Is this going to be big enough?" I gave her a look as if to say, [What if I overfill it?]

It took her a few beats to gather what I was talking about. Of course, I was just kidding, but she didn’t get it. She got a little flushed, and visibly embarrassed. She stuttered, "Well you don’t need to fill it. Just a little is plenty. If you have extra, just put it somewhere else."