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Misadventurous Melissa

Everyday is an adventure, or misadventure as the case may be. It is the latter that makes for the best stories, inspiring the name of my blog. I'm a nurse and an attorney (and way too silly sometimes). I am retired now. WELCOME to my blog! This is a work of fiction inspired by true events. The patients I refer to are a patchwork quilt of various patient's problems mixed together. If you think you recognize someone, you are wrong. These people do not really exist.

Friday, December 02, 2005

The Trouble With Testicles

The patient came back from hip replacement surgery in agony. That's not unusual. What's odd is that it wasn't his hip that hurt. It was his testicles causing him distress, or as he so elegantly phrased it, "My balls are killing me." Something must have happened in OR. My ideas are as follows:

1) He got dropped and that's what he landed on.

2) While hammering the hip during surgery, the doctor missed.

3) He made somebody mad in OR and they waited until he was under to kick him there.

4) He just wanted me to touch and examine his private parts.

I'm open to other suggestions. Why would a man come back from surgery with excruciatingly painful testicles?

(No photo for this post, it wasn't a pretty site.)


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6 Comments:

At 12/02/2005 03:16:00 AM, Blogger Michelle said...

Ouch @ no2!!

 
At 12/02/2005 02:17:00 PM, Blogger Running2Ks said...

Um, there are lymph nodes down there--maybe they were swollen?

Or he was secretly watching porn in his room and got blue balls.

 
At 12/02/2005 05:22:00 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

They have to position them for ortho surgery to make the site accessible. Sometimes they use props to keep them in position, maybe they got caught underneath:O

 
At 12/02/2005 05:29:00 PM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

I am never, ever, going to your hospital again!

BTW, the cure for "blue balls" is situps. Don't ask me how I know this. ;)

 
At 12/03/2005 01:11:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

Michelle, I say ouch to all of them and especially the last one.

R2ks, our TVs only get 4 channels and none of it is porn. We get so many complaints.

Sarah, I'm so glad that I'm a girl and don't have to worrry about that.

Dave, how did I know that you would comment on this on? Silly me, I thought that the cure for blue balls was sex. ;)

 
At 12/04/2005 04:22:00 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

Dk, the muscles primarily used for sit ups are the rectus abdominus and the extenal obliques, these are large muscles and require a good blood supply to perform the motion of sit ups, you are merely redirecting the blood...that's why it works:)

 

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