Re: Man Sues Doctors After Penis Amputated

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And be thankful you're not supposed to have one, either.

When I first read the title and the initial post, I reacted the same as everyone else here. I'm a woman, but I have a superfocused (natural) fear [read: phobia] of losing body parts. Sometimes my arm rubs against my body and I have to stop and concentrate on the feeling and thank God that I still have all my parts. (For some reason, these days I've come across a lot of people with things missing...)

But then, the story reminded me of my neighbor telling me her story when she went in for a mastectomy two weeks before I moved in and met her. She said she had been given two choices: either they do the biopsy and then wait for her to wake up and hear the results of the tests and then go under again in--I don't know, maybe two weeks--to remove the breast. The other choice is to do the biopsy, have it tested while she's still under and if it is determined to be malignant to go ahead and remove the breast. She chose the latter because the biopsy could aggravate the cancer and make it spread to other sites before the mastectomy could be performed. So, she didn't know going in what she would wake up with (or without). She described feeling the bandage upon coming to and knowing from how big it was what had happened.

I don't know how I typed that... I have such a medical phobia. I think my hands are numb. As far as the original case in the article goes, it may be that there was some kind of mix-up in the doctor's understanding of the patient's choice, and considering the patient's reaction, and without knowing any other details, malpractice of some sort would seem likely, I suppose. I just thought this might help people understand how such a thing could feasibly occur.

I've been recently helping a friend whose father had major surgery to have significant portions of his abdomen removed, and I don't think that if--God forbid--I was diagnosed with cancer I could have a part of my body removed. I think I'd try holistic treatments of some sort and if that didn't work, die. There's just something so unthinkable about most conventional cancer treatments.

We can write our names in the snow with em too

But the bad thing is you guys have to deal with blue balls and when you accidentally sit on it, it hurts and it can feel uncomfortable when your underwear pushes it against your body. That's why some men wear boxers. Some wear nothing under their pants.

Well an eye for an eye...