THIS, young ladies, is what a vas-ectomy scar looks like on THIS side of a scrotum. It has an adorable twin on the other side. It is left when the surgeon cuts one's scrotum open to find the vas deferens (spermatic cord), mash one piece of it in a hemostat and cut it out, cauterize the cut vas, and suture the scrotum shut. Sterilization is simpler & safer by far in a man than in the major surgery of a woman's hysterectomy. (I presume you know it does NOT interfere with the functioning of organs or testosterone because the man's testes are not removed as with your OTHER pets.)
Of course, my physician team worked only on one side at a time. The surgical understudy, Dr (Capt) Joann Angstad, must have made me her first guinea pig for this procedure. At least, she had an old head full Colonel urologist guiding her around MY crotch! I don't think he got her to put the anesthetic injection in the correct place in either vas though 'cause when she mangled the vas in her hemostat, it felt like the proverbial jackass had just kicked me BIGTIME in the gonads!
"JE-SUS CHRIST!" I exclaimed! That was the left side! "GOD!!!!!!!!" was my right-side response! Her clinical notes that I saw when I retired from the AF a few years later said, "Pt tolerated procedure well." Right, Doc... like u knew WTF it was all about as u gained experience for your rich, general practice in civilian life!
"JE-SUS CHRIST!" I exclaimed! That was the left side! "GOD!!!!!!!!" was my right-side response! Her clinical notes that I saw when I retired from the AF a few years later said, "Pt tolerated procedure well." Right, Doc... like u knew WTF it was all about as u gained experience for your rich, general practice in civilian life!
PS: I need help learning how to post the 2 fotos above as click-throughs for each other. If you can straighten me out (so to speak), please send me an eMail with explanation, steps, or a relevant reference. Thanks & HHNT!
