Well it involved rude bits and it bloody hurt!
Not an injury, but surgery to correct a very common birth defect that doesn't get any publicity because it involves 'your rude bits.'

The condition's known as hypospadias and varies in severity. I got off fairly lightly, but the down-side was that they didn't bother to fix it when I was a kid, and I had to start getting urinary infections when I was in my 20's before they did anything about it.

So what do they do? Well it varies, but in my case, it involved slicing my bell-end down the middle, doing a bit of re-plumbing inside and then sewing it back together again. Genital piercing? Pah! That's for wimps (though to be honest, I was out cold when they did it.)

The most painful part was waking up with 'morning wood' with a catheter and stitches in. I was plumbed in for over a week after that.

On my 6 month post-op visit, my surgeon told me it was okay to start having sex again. He'd never told me I couldn't in the first place, and I'd waited less than a month.

Oh and I got to pull out some of the stitches myself because they didn't dissolve properly.
( Horatio P Lemming, Tue 18 Jul 2006, 14:54, Reply)