I just had the strangest event take place, start to finish in 22hrs.

At work yesterday standing at the front counter, not lifting/pushing/straining and my left testicle just erupted in pain.
No naughty in the last week either. I had a few customers in the shop new something was up straight away. I excused my self for an inspection, sure enough slightly swollen and even a paper touch made me cry. Time to get an appointment for the Dr.

4 1/2hrs have now passed I am struggling to walk, at the Doctor's and she say's I might have a twisted testicle and need to get to the hospital now. I'm in serious pain but thinking Friday afternoon Redcliffe Hospital the wait will be at least 4-6hrs but it sounds urgent so go I home get ready give the wife and baby a kiss and a cuddle and off I go.

Get to hospital, tell them what is going on and give them the paperwork from the Doc. Sit down for 30seconds and I'm in.
1min later Dr is checking me over - you need an ultrasound now. I start the questioning as I'm getting very worried.
It turns out your testicles can turn inside it's containment area and your baby making tubes can choke it to death.

Yay. 10mins later the ultrasound comes back showing it is getting a small amount of blood. Back into the big chair 3mins have passed and I am now in a surgeons room being looked over, within 5 seconds he starts getting me prepped for surgery.

I am freaked now all this is just happening to quick from normal at 10:59am to sucking on a mask 20mins after arriving at
Hospital. I wake up at about 11:15pm with a big slit down the center of my containment area and now both boys stitched in 3 places to the wall each. Just got home an hr ago with very very pain full testicle's and out of action for 3days. Not sure how many stitches not game to move to see.

The whole process was time limited and if I waited I would have lost him forever. I was very fortunate the process played out this way. I never new about this so be careful lads could happen to you.

When I was 15 I smacked myself in the nads with a trick ski doing a jump at the ski park. Pain big time but being young and stupid continued on, even riding my pushie down for a surf the next morning. Yep dumb idiot I know. Called mum to pick me up as by now swelling, severe pain and gathered it was not good. Straight to docs. Twisted teste. Awesome. Straight into surgey. I was so close to losing it as the blood supply was almost nil. So fellas if you whack yourself or something less sinister as Youngbull did head to the docs if pain persists.

I knew dogs could get a twisted stomach/bowel, but never a human teste. Eeek, my legs are crossed, and I'm bent over just reading about it!

From what I hear - this sort of injury is fairly common with bicycle riders.
I know of at least 5 that have had this op done.

stephen

youngbull said...

No naughty in the last week either.

Well there's ya problem right there....
Ladies, this is what can happen. No action and they spin out.


Seriously though condolences, I had Rubella when I was about 18 and it gets in there and makes it feel like you've been kicked in the nuts for a week. So I'm hearin' ya brother. But reckon you have it worse!

you were very lucky as you took your sweet time getting to emergency.

Be sure to tell your missus the doctor suggested cleaning out the tubes more frequently.

Sit on a bucket of iced water so they are juussst danglin' in there.

Drink enormous amounts of bourbon and cola whilst watching movies all day.

youngbull said...
You guys are right it's as bad as it sound's

Day 2. Just got out of bed and yep it can get worse. A permanent stinging pain inside to out.
Not sure about much computer time today. Not sure about anything right now actually pain is pretty bad.

So you said you weren't lifting / pushing/ straining anything etc.

Did the doc say what made it suddenly do a summersault and tie itself in a knot?

Did you maybe do something a few days earlier and it took that long to finally choke maybe?

My leftie is hurting just thinking about it. Should I go for a checkup?

The dentist doesn't seem so scary anymore

And I thought this might be about food ,
How frickin wrong was I.
Not hungry anymore

Hey, theDoc, tho I appreciate your philanthropic efforts in thirdish world countries, I cannot contribute to your foundation,
as over here in Pattaya, the locals already have an amazing ability of straightening out virtually anything at a very reasonable price.

Oh, and it's always Happy Hour

I love seabreeze. No where else can some of the reply's be ever seen or herd. Clowns and jokers - I love it

Well its been about 5 days, still walking like a cowboy, lots of lovely colours have shown up. But overall healing well underway. Its interesting having a bad back at the same time, I would hate to see me walking around, the word broke-back mountain comes to mind after a long night then going for a jog first thing in the morning.

Being a married man I thought its time to, you know what. Holy mother mary of whatever, like a 16 year old boy again. I seriously recommend everyone over 30 go out and twist your testicles, as a week of pain has benefits. Not kidding serious benefits.
Obviously not going into but yep pretty darn worth it now. So odd this whole event.

Workplace incident lol. Its my own shop so a not really worth going the owner.