Back from the doc
Blank-firing adapter successfully installed. All went well. I got a shot of happy stuff, which the doc said was like six beers in 30 seconds. Clearly, he’s never seen me drink and another half dose would have been nice.
Interesting note is that your vasa deferentia are white. Yeah, I watched. Even more bizarre, so did the Mrs.
Be in bed most of tomorrow. Maybe blog, may not.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Did that myself after my third was born in ’75. Took 15 mins on a Friday and was back at work Monday.
The worst part was the hair growing back and I took out the stitches myself.
I was admonished to masturbate 2 dozen times and come back for a test…the nurse even told me I was now shooting blanks.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Best of luck in your recovery. A word of advice: tight drawers or a jock for a few days. I actually wore one for about two weeks afterwards and it helped with the discomfort tremendously.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Not me, dude. I had full anesthesia for the big V. I had a local for shoulder surgery and the smell of my own flesh being cauterized was enough to put me off that shit forever.
Words of Advice: Frozen peas in the bag are better than ice. Shapes against the wounded member better. If the doctor said “Nothing strenuous for X days” then stick to that. You will find how the littlest things are the ones that hurt the most. The only eye popping pain I had after mine was pulling too quick on the toilet roll. Also, they give you pain meds for a reason. Take them. Too many people worry about getting “hooked” or try to tough it out. If your pain exceeds the pills when you are doing some physical activity, its because you are doing to much exertion.
Rest easy.
PS. I checked with my surgeon brother about the vasectomy pics showing wood. He said that was for illustration purposes only.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Well, congratulations. There’s no round in the chamber but still … don’t point it at anything you aren’t willing to destroy!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Glad everything went well.
Haven’t done it myself. I’m holding out for the whole “repopulate the earth after the end of days” scenario.
That, or I’m chicken.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Metulj, I alternate between peas and corn. So far, it only hurts if i cough.
Yeah, my, uh, you know was taped to my belly. Guess they don’t want pics of that.
Cam, I bought a jock but for now the couch with peas seems to be working.
Yeah, they told me to bring back the 20th and 35th specimen. I looked at the wife and said that puts us at, what, June 2016? Not appreciated.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Firstly; Eugh! Secondly; Glad to know the procedure went well. Mozletov?
that puts us at, what, June 2016?
ROFL
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Boy, I’ve got some great stories I could tell, if only they wouldn’t come back to haunt me. Well, not even come back. They’d haunt me instantaneously.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Just don’t do what I did. I thought the day after I felt fine enough to try out my new industrial strength, 3000 PSI pressure washer.
Guess who didn’t have a tight enough grip on the wand when I hit it for the first time?
Guess where said wand decided to put its equal and opposite reaction?
Yup.
And the work up to the correct # specimen was fun. Almost like being back in high school again!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Wow – the comments for this post are very, ummm….educational.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 am
Breda, my words exactly. Isn’t the gun blogosphere a great macho boys club? Clearly, gun owners are all insecure wimps… heh.
As far as the snippity snip… I know I’ll go down this road eventually, but I’m a young buck yet. No kids, and I plan to stay that way for the next year or two. I’m pretty damn sure when the time comes for the ol’ clip, my wife will be safely in the next county. The last time she watched a doc take a scalpel to my skin, she almost passed out… I can’t imagine what she’d do if a doctor started poking around my naughty bits.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 am
Y’know, I have no idea how people watch themselves get cut on under local.
If I could have left the room while they did my ingrown toenails, I would have.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 am
I always watch when the stick the big needle in my arm to drain out a pint of blood every few weeks.
I watched my knee surgeries too. The high point of the first one was when the doctor told me they had the tendon out now, “Would you like to see it?” “Sure!” So he held up one end of my tendon that was going to be rerouted through the center of my knee to replace the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.
I asked for a mirror when the dentist cut open the gum near the tip of my tooth root and use the power saw to remove said tip which was infected. He said in 10 years I was the first person to ever ask to watch that particular operation.
I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s my body. I want to know what they are doing to it…
Ask Barb or me sometime about the pictures I took of her C-Section with her uterus laying on top of her stomach being cleaned out before putting back inside her, or maybe I’ll just post them sometime…
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
I thought they always did those on Fridays? To save the embarrassment of either taking time off work or walking bow-legged at the office.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Congrats on a great decision. I took myself out of the gene pool and to the vet back in 86. Best part was after getting the valium and then the numbing shot, the doc poked me with a scalpel and asked, “Sharp, or dull?” My response was, “Use a sharp knife if you’re going to cut me!”
But its great being a training device instead of a breeder.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
A fifth of Jack, a frozen bag of peas and 24 hours of HBO and you’ll be just fine
January 24th, 2008 at 12:46 am
My vasectomy is also one of my brush-with-fame stories. I know it sounds weird, but it’s true. My vasectomy was performed by the cousin of actor James Garner.