Hello all. Well, I know you all pretty well now after 9 months of being on board , so I feel O.K. to approach this subject. This subject is a pretty touchy one for most of us men, especially those of us that have been put under the " knife" , and got to the point where we did not want any more children.
I am 48, and 8 years ago I figured after my divorce from my children's mother I would get this procedure done , because at 40 did not want to have more children after having 3 teenagers at the time. So, being self-employed did not have any medical insurance, looked in the yellow pages and found the least expensive doctor to do the procedure ! That was my first mistake ! I soon found out I should have gone for the doctor who would charge me $550.00 as opposed to the $ 300.00 charge the more " economical " doctor charged.
So, the day of the surgery arrives . I go in taking the valium pill the doctor told me to take . Now understand, I had never taken a valium pill before ! I felt so relaxed going into surgery that I felt like my jaw was dropping off my face ! What a relaxing, great feeling ! I soon would find out, I would need that " relaxing great feeling " beforehand ! So, I'm sitting there , and the doctor gets ready to numb my testicles with a shot with a needle . So, I brace myself . He injects the numbing stuff and the pain is so severe I about jump out of my chair ! I think I yelled about every curse word in the book at him, and created some new ones like, what the ^%) ing blank did you #&%*( ing hit !??? He said, " Oh. You are just going through normal pain. Normal pain. In my mind I was saying, " I'll show you normal pain you SOB !" But He had me at his mercy at that point , what was I to do? Run out of the office ? Yeah, right !
So, he finished the procedure telling me, " O. K. You will have minimal swelling for 4 to 5 days . Don't do any lifting for 4 to 5 days or no sex for about 5 days . So I figured O.K. fair enough, I can handle that ! So, after about 4 days I notice my right testicle is swollen up like a frigging apple, but the left side is fine ! Let's see he said, " Normal swelling. Right. " So after a week of this abnormal swelling on one side I called and said, " Hey, Doc. Somethin' is not right here ! " So, I went in and he continued to say, " Oh! Normal swelling. Should go away in a few days. " I said, " I sure as hell hope so, because I'm about to throw my back out from walking crooked with this oblong nut bulging out!"
So, another week goes by, and by this time , I'm starting to bleed out the bottom of the you know what . So I go back to the doctor, it's been two weeks, and I say to him, " If you say one more time, this is normal bleeding or swelling , you are going to regret it !" So then he starts blaming me by asking questions, " Well, when did you start working again ?" " Did you wait 5 days to have sex? " We think you got too active too soon !" Then he said I had a hematoma, blood clot in the area he had stuck the needle . So I had to go into emergency surgery to have it drained . What had happened as I found out from other doctors is he had probably hit a blood vein in numbing me, causing bleeding and a hemorrage . Interestingly enough, when being wheeled into surgery, he told me, " Just wanted to let you know, I'm not going to charge you for this surgery . " Well, if that wasn't an admission of guilt, I don't know what was !
Looking back now, I should have sued him , but all parts snapped back into shape within a month in good working order . ( Mrs. Flipper is thankful . ) But it was the single most traumatic physical thing I have ever had happen in my life anyway. So what about you guys out there? Any horror stories ? Or, you lucky dogs, did your operations all go smoothly? Look forward to hearin' from ya, Peace out, Mr. Flipper
