Wednesday, November 17, 2010

History - Why Surgery was needed

I have always been prone to cysts ,boils and abscesses . Even when i was 18 years old and in the Army I had a very very bad pilonidal cyst that required surgery. But this is a story for another time.


     The Current Problem Started about 6 years ago with a tiny bump the size of an eraser on the side/edge of my scrotum. It would come and go swelling to the size of a almond sometimes but then would go away . Finally one day it swelled and kept swelling until it was half the size of a small plumb. It was very painful to say the least. I went to my family Dr and she immediately made me an appointment with a urologist and he scheduled me for surgery.  This in tailed cutting a hole at the bottom of my scrotum , Draining and cleaning out the cavity that remained followed by a nurse coming to my house for 3 weeks removing the stuffing from the small hole and inserting new stuffing. All seemed to go well and i went back to work .


   Fast forward 8 months and i started noticing a spot or two of blood in my underwear. The spot got bigger and bigger with time and would come and go. Sometimes the tiny hole in the bottom of a my scrotum ( which i appropriately called the Drainage hole ) would clog up and my scrotum would swell on the bottom then would go higher then higher.Over time it started swelling near the top , to the side just below my penis. Or Cock for any of you  that cringe at the sound of the word PENIS in your head.
    What had happened was the abscess at the bottom had worked its way way up essentially creating a tube from the top to bottom. This would fill up create pressure then the drainage hole would finally release and make an awful mess. I cant tell you how many pairs of underwear I went through or how many possible romantic evenings never happened for fear of being gross down there.


   Three years ago the drainage hole completely clogged up and the top portion swelled enough for a trip to the emergency room. The Doctor that came in numbed me up and cut another hole , this time at the top part of the scrotum. Over time it would now drain from both top and bottom. After fighting this thing for another 3 years i finally ended up in another Dr office that swears he is going to fix it once and for all ..  Next post .. getting ready for surgery  on OCT 26th 2010 and yes you will finally get to see the gross pics .. 

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