PANAMANIAN MAN’S SCROTUM SWELLS TO SIZE OF BASKETBALL

A Panama man shocked doctors after he showed up at a hospital with testicles as large as a basketball. Their massive size was the result of a rare condition that required doctors to perform emergency surgery. The 43-year-old unnamed man had come to the hospital with a fever and two gaping gashes in his extremely large scrotum, (* Oh, it gets better…) which were leaking pus. The man had not seen a doctor in 30 years. During that time, his genitals had swelled to a behemoth 7 pounds and measured a foot around — larger than a regulation basketball (*That’s nuts!). They became so cumbersome that his scrotum dropped to the floor, and prevented him from moving without the aid of a walker. Even worse, his own mother was forced to help him perform the most basic tasks. Doctors diagnosed the man with Fournier’s gangrene, a rare and life threatening bacterial infection that attacks both male and female genitalia. Often caused by poor hygiene and sanitation, the ailment is particularly prevalent among “elderly men living in developing countries.” After surgery to relieve the swelling and several days of intravenous antibiotics his wound appeared to be improving but dressing changes and a wound vacuum were very painful. Doctors gave him scrotal plastic surgery to repair his damaged nether-regions. When doctors last saw him four weeks after the operation, he was “healing well with satisfactory functional and cosmetic outcomes.”
(Yes, there are pictures. No, don’t look: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214442019302694#fig3)
* And ladies … he’s single!
* Sounds like his basketballs were giving him the dribbles.
* Were they thrown over his shoulder like a Continental soldier?
* Fournier’s gangrene? If I had discovered this, I would have skipped the naming-it-after-myself thing.