yys

It's a story few men can hear without scrunching their faces, crossing their legs and gasping.

A man from Pickering, east of Toronto, fresh from his 46th birthday party with friends, returned home to meet his live-in girlfriend around 3 a.m. yesterday. But, according to police, his night was far from over.

The two began to fight, said Sergeant Paul Malik of Durham Regional Police. During the fight the woman got a hold of her partner's testicles and yanked so hard she tore them from his scrotum.

"Last we heard, last night he was at Pickering Ajax Hospital waiting for surgery to have them put back in," Sgt. Malik said. "That was quite the birthday present he got."

The woman, who was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, was in court for a bail hearing yesterday. The hearing was stayed until today. The extent of the damage was unclear and there was no word last night on how successful the surgery had been.
Police are withholding the woman's name to protect the identity of her partner.

An injury such as this is very rare, especially at the bare hands of another person, said Philip Klotz, a urologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

"It must have been one hell of a pull," Dr. Klotz said. "I've heard of the slicing off of a penis but the pulling out or off of testicles by a spouse or a human is pretty uncommon. I've never seen one and I've been in practice for 50 years."

The lasting results of injury to the scrotum or testicles depends largely on how much damage was done, Dr. Klotz said.

"If the testicles are pulled right off then it's goodbye Charlie, they're gone. He's not going to have any testicles," he said. "If, on the other hand, the scrotum was pulled off -- that's the bag that holds the testicles -- and the testicles are intact then its not a big deal to sew the scrotum back on, depending on how badly it was wrenched off."

But, Dr. Klotz said, if the scrotum were to be torn off, the skin would die very quickly.

"What would happen then is, he would be operated on and the testicles would be put into the thigh temporarily while the scrotal area heals and then, depending on how much of the scrotum is left, they can be transplanted back up and covered over with a [skin] graft or something like that.

"If it was just torn it would be a matter of sewing it back up."

Dr. Klotz said injuries to the scrotum, while not at all common, usually happen around machinery.

"If it got caught in some machinery and avulsed [torn off], then, depending on how much damage was done, if there is enough skin left living, it could be sewn back up."

While the technology may exist to reattach a testicle, Dr. Klotz said, he has never heard of a successful case


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Tam

OH GOD!!!!! I am a woman and that fucking made ME flinch and scrunch my face........good grief.

Although it does bring to mind some ideas on my next pms, better start growing some fingernails fast, no? LOL

OUCH!!!!

Tam

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Maybe that's what LisaMarie ment when she told me to 'get some balls'!

Makaveli

I would be going to jail for murder.. I would kill her and anybody that looks like her.. Dumb bitch..

eRock

OUCH! That was a tough story to finish...