Saturday, March 22, 2008

My bleeding penis.

So since I was over in Iraq, I have been having trouble urinating. It had been getting worse, and I saw a doctor about it in January. The Army doctor was an idiot, and she gave me some antibiotics without really doing any tests. Nevertheless, the antibiotics did not improve my situation, and it became harder and harder to pee.

Finally the Army permitted me to see a specialist. The great thing about Sierra Vista is that it is a retirement community, as well as an Army community. So the average age of the people waiting at the doctors was about 80, with my age factored into the equation. There was also a large section of the questionnaire for new patients about ED. According to one of the old men waiting with me, the doctor I was seeing was notorious for giving out lots of Viagra and Cialis. Sweet, I can't pee but I will have a boner all the time.

So after a 2 hour wait, I see the doctor. He was a dick. You are what you do I guess. Anyway, he had me pee into a machine to calculate how fast I was peeing. I peed at about 3 ml per second; normal rates being about 21 ml per second. The doctor then TOLD ME that I was having trouble peeing. My response was, "I KNOW, THAT'S WHY I CAME IN." I was not happy with his obvious prognosis. He told me I had to go to surgery that afternoon.

So basically the surgery involved boring out my urethra with a laser. Scar tissue had built up from me being thrown around so much as a gunner in Iraq. Surgery went well, and they gave me lots of sweet drugs.

Now I can pee like a pro. It comes out like a super soaker or something. The problem is that I am still bleeding out of my penis. I have to wear a maxi-pad on my penis. Hopefully it will stop bleeding soon. The great part about all of this are the drugs. One makes my pee bright orange. Awesome. Percocet is fun too.

I wanted to post pics of the bloody pads, but Cat wouldn't let me.

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