So, I’m watching the Eco-Challenge last night on the Discovery Channel. I was exceptionally impressed. Apart from focusing a little too much on “Team Playboy Extreme,” it was really cool.
One of the creepiest parts of the show was the trek over 40 miles through the jungle in Borneo. The leeches did abound. Anywhere from 1 inch to 5 inches long. The creepiest thing was that they moved around inchworm like. I didn’t know they did that. I’d only seen them on people who were emerging from a swamp or lake. These suckers were on the jungle floor, on the trees, seemingly everywhere. The competitors would get several on them, pull or flick them off, and blood would flow.
The rest of the show was hardship, exhaustion, and a guy on a mountain bike, hitting a tree branch, and punturing a lung. Ouch.
This is a 4 night show and they were showing highlights from tonight’s show. They have a radio transmission from someone, saying “I just saw a leech disappear up my urethra.”
OMG! I was speechless. I grabbed a hold of Mr. Happy, doubled over, and tried to purge my mind of the mental image that was now coursing through my head. Up his urethra! A leech!
::Shivers uncontrollably::
Although, you better believe I’ll be tuning in to see how this all plays out.
Up his/her URETHRA? I find that a bit difficult to swallow! I mean, is that possible, and if so, WHAT would make a leech crawl up there when it could easily attach itself elsewhere to get a meal? And wouldn’t you feel it heading towards your most private place?
Please give us updates on this (it ain’t on TV here!)…
They just had that radio conversation on the show.The guy said in maybe an aussie accent" I felt a pain in my willie" and i broke down.I never want to know that kind of pain.
Mnementh, struck speechless, manages to wiggle into a dark corner, pours salt on his groin and curls into the fetal position, sobbing softly and mumbling ‘The horror… the horror…’
First, a correction. I said that I was watching The Discovery Channel. The Eco-Challenge was on USA. I had been watching The Discovery Channel earlier.
Second, an update. Well, the actual incident wasn’t as exciting as I thought it might be (big surprise). But, it all started with a guy calling in on the radio, saying “I felt a bite on my willy and saw a leech disappear up my urethra.” Surprisingly, the doctors weren’t at all worried.
“Once it’s full of blood it’ll come back out. ( :eek: ) Then, it’ll just heal naturally. Until then, just drink plenty of water.”
Just the thought of this made me cringe. Still does.
Good lord! How’s a guy supposed to function at all knowing there’s a leech up there?! If I was a guy in that situation, I think I’d be curled up like Mnementh over there!
This poor bastard needs prompt medical attention from Team Playboy Extreme. If the resulting engorged erectile tissue doesn’t crush the leech, then Nurse Bunny will need to perform some external massage. There will be a massive build-up of pressure, followed by the expulsion of said leech at projectile velocity.
All you male Dopers doubled over in mock agony should consider the potential disaster awaiting a woman…another orifice, and a lot more plumbing. Much more navigable too!
Uhm, that would only work if said parasite was either lodged in the urethra below the point where the ejaculatory duct connects or if it was able to make its way up through the urethra and into the ejaculatory duct itself.
I don’t know about you but either possibility sounds worse than having it in my bladder.
Although, it does give a whole new meaning to the phrase “there’s a monster on my pants”.
I discussed this tidbit with my mom for a while and discovered to my surprise that this happened to my uncle as a small child. He was swimming and did, in fact, get a leech in his urethra. :eek: The doctors folded the skin back as much as they could and pulled it out with little tweezers/forceps.