Playing golf today with my sister she tells her bosses son - he is 28 yrs old. He awoke one morning last week with an erection. Not uncommon among those in that age bracket. But it persisted. He went to work, and it persisted. He was in pain all day, but it persisited. Finally -after returning home, and continued pain, he went to the ER.
He had, by this time, had a full erection for 17 hours. The ER staff had to 'drain' his penis of the engorged blood. They tested the blood and found it to be leukemia. He was told that another 3 hours would have required AMPUTATION. This form of leukemia will force him to have chemo for the balance of his life - there is no cure. With chemo he might live 20 years they said - but it would eventually kill him. He has to avoid contact with illness - he won't be able to work due a compromised immune system.
If she hadn't told me this story I would be writing it off as 'Urban Legend'.
A google search for 'leukemia erection' gave me hundreds of hits - here is one of them that confirms this presentation of leukemia;
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijs/vol8n2/priapism.xml
Anyone ever hear of such a thing?
Jeff