Digital Journal — It’s hard out here for a prick. A transplanted penis, that is.
The world’s first penis transplant had all the making of a medical success story: Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a new four-inch knob to the 44-year-old patient after “an unfortunate traumatic accident” left him with a stump in his groin. Surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the transplant using a member donated by a brain-dead man’s parents.
It’s bad enough to get an organ transplant, and it’s even worse to get one in an area representing masculinity. The post-operative trauma hit the patient and his wife so hard, doctors had to remove the transplanted penis only two weeks after surgery.
The surgeons report in the medical journal European Urology that the recipient and his wife requested the organ be removed “because of the wife’s psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis.”
Swollen shape? Ugh, poor unnamed patient. Not that penis transplants should be flawless, but it’s understandable to be traumatized when an attached organ looks like a mangled squash. Especially, um, down there.
What can be learned from this scientific experiment? As successful as the surgery had been, doctors weren’t prepared for the mental anguish afterward. A more sympathetic staff could’ve offered counselling to the patient so he could get better acquainted with his new one-eyed trouser snake.
Instead, he’s back where he began. And millions of guys reading this are squirming in their seats, praying they never have to go through any of the insanity described above.
