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The following is an article reprinted from the July 1991
issue of the medicaljournal "MEDICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY"
SCROTUM SELF-REPAIR
by William A. Morton, Jr, MD
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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 troubles." The
patient, who was about 40, was pale, febrile, 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-zig laceration, oozing pus and
blood, extended down the left scrotum.
Amid the matted hair, edematous 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 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 and was missing.
The stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal,
debrided, and the vessels ligated proberly, though not much of a hematoma 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.
*** EOF