I see lots of broken stuff. Noses, hips, fingers, toes, wrists, ankles, necks: all of which suck in their own unique way. Still, when it comes to flat-out squirm factor nothing tops the broken penis.
Just getting the story is awkward. I put up the professional facade, pretend it’s business as usual, but there’s no getting around the uncomfortableness that hangs over the room for both me and this poor unfortunate dood. ”So the two of you were having intercourse? And she was on top of you…no…oh ok missionary style. And you’re saying you came out, missed on the way back in, bumped up against her and felt a pop?”
Gah! Enough talking, although pulling back the sheet isn’t any better as I see what appears to be a giant eggplant sitting between his legs. ”Holy bejeezus!!” I think. ”Well that appears to be a bit swollen doesn’t it?” I say.
There’s no actual penis bone to break, instead an erect penis has a markedly thinned and relatively unelastic tunica albuginea. With enough force this tears resulting in damage to the underlying corpus cavernosum, aka a penile fracture. The treatment is a trip to the OR, and off he went to have the underlying blood clot evacuated and tear sewn back together.
Pretty big mood killer, to say the least.
November 4, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Oh, I get it. A double entendre.
November 4, 2008 at 5:30 pm
OUCH!
Haven’t cringed like that since the rodeo cowboy with the penile degloving injury rolled into the ER during my residency.
OUCH!
November 4, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I don’t even have one and it still made me cross my legs.
November 4, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Well I guess that answers the question about whether you can die from embarrasment. Whew!
I think that even beats the “lost tampon” you know where.
November 4, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I’m sitting here, crossing my legs, whimpering after reading that. Poor guy, that really is a mood killer!
I guess raccoons actually do have bones in their penis though!
November 4, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I really do need to get some sleep. I thought you were going to write about femur fractures. At least they don’t make a traction splint for EMS to use on that.
November 5, 2008 at 10:20 am
Sounds painful. With treatment, does the penis return to its pre-injured state?
I once had a boyfriend whose penis seemed to consist of two parts, in that it it was totally bendable in the middle of the shaft, even when erect. Is that most likely a normal variation, or a sign of an unrepaired injury, or the result of a repaired injury?
Sorry for the TMI.
[Blush at question]
November 5, 2008 at 11:48 am
Owie owie ow ow ow…
November 5, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Yikes! I hate slipping out and the resulting shaft bend. It does kinda hurt. But I didn’t know it was possible to “break” it when that happens! Thanks for the warning. I am now going to slow down with my girlfriend!
November 5, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Im new to this blog and found it by chance but count me in for reading this in the future. Great stuff and really funny as well.
Thanks
June 16, 2009 at 6:32 pm
gdgddg
November 5, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Yeah, we had two of those over the last few months. The one guy went to the OR. He was one unhappy camper!!
November 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm
What sad is seeing this happen to a poor little 70yo male and every nursing student feels the need to come “observe’
November 6, 2008 at 9:11 pm
How pleasant…
November 7, 2008 at 2:23 pm
The only guy I’ve seen with this took 18 hours to come into A+E and then failed to attend for a review with the urologists. At least he was honest – he admitted it happened during wild sex.
November 7, 2008 at 3:59 pm
”Holy bejeezus!!” doesn’t seem to cover it
November 8, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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November 9, 2008 at 9:25 am
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November 10, 2008 at 3:22 am
wow…no sex from now on
November 10, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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November 12, 2008 at 2:01 am
Oh my! That tops them all!
November 13, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Holy shit. I am a woman, and reading that made ME cringe. Urgh. What an awful thing to have happen. Damn.
November 17, 2008 at 7:48 am
Uggh……..I’ve had several come through the ER and surgery over the years. More than one had taken erectile dysfunction meds recreationally. And one was a bipolar who was switched to Geodon, which happens to cause the woodie that won’t quit-even after surgical decompression! I had to wrap my best pediatric BP cuff around said body part and decompress it manually.
I love my job.
July 14, 2009 at 8:45 pm
i broke my femur i hurt bad but not like that ewww
August 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hey, great post, very well written. You should blog more
about this. I’ll definitely be subscribing.
Cheers;
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