I realize that we’re all one, big happy family here and that we forge relationships that defy the norm, but criminy, Scylla, you’ve managed to drag that concept to an entirely different level. While I can offer sympathy to you in your distress, I’m also struggling to keep from saying: “ICK!! Have a little class, man!”
Try to learn from my example - do you see me posting a link to the pic of the scars from my gallbladder surgery?
OK, OK, pardon the rant. Poor baby! Hope you feel better soon. I’d offer to kiss it and make it better, but propriety demands…
Scylla, it’s a pain I know all too well. I was stricken with that very same condition when I was a teen. In my sexual prime!!! Do not blame the testicle, for it is an innocent victim in this tragedy.
Take heart, buckeroo! I recovered and so will you. Your testicle will right as rain in no time.
Condemnation of the unacceptable behavior of Scylla’s right testicle.
Sympathy for Scylla’s ignoble plight, and pain.
I suffered from something similar, though not quite so painful, for several years before I figured out it wasn’t normal.
A friend of mine woke up one day to discover the tube running to and from one of his testicles had twisted itself. I have heard few other things that could possible be more painful than this.
People sometimes say “Damn, that guy’s got some big balls!” They mean it as a compliment.
From personal experience, I can tell you it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Thank God I only have one big ball. Big balls are bad.
2. On my way to the emergency room for the secons time (first time they thought it was a hernia,) I learned that my Chrysler Sebring has a governor on it, and won’t go faster than 120 mph.
3. The people of the SDMB are very cool. Thanks.
There once was a Doper named Scylla
Whose testicle hurt like a killa
The drugs didn’t help
And the pain made him yelp
So he rested his ball on a pilla.
Scylla was a Beautiful nymph whose surpassing attractiveness and good nature offended the Gods, so they turned her into a monster (ain’t that always the way.) Thereafter she would waylay travelers and destroy ships and stuff. She even got six of Odysseus’ men.
Scylla is also a rock. along a narrow sea passageway. On the other side of the passageway is a constant whirlpool known as Charybdis. Thus the expression, “between a rock and a hard place.”
Scylla is also the code name Babe’s brother calls himself in Marathon Man and Brothers. Roy Scheider played Scylla in the former opposite Dustin Hoffman as Babe. You’ll recall Lawrence Olivier as the Nazi dentist. “Is it safe?”
In the first book, Scylla was something of a unique character. He was the smartest and best agent, but he was also something of a flake. He could kill with either hand, but was overprotective of his brother, which killed him.
Scylla’s boss, Perkins got revenge on Scylla for thinking he was so cool by giving him undercover identity in the name of “Elmer Snerd.” (I guess that would be a good sock puppet for me if I ever need one.)
The three in one nature of Scylla as rock, beauty, and monster appealed to me in its paradoxical sense, so there it is.
What this has to do with my swollen nut, I’m not sure.
Aw, nuts! Sorry to hear of your overstuffed baggage, Scylla.
Hey! That’s it! Baggage! What do you do when you’ve put too much in your suitcase and it won’t close properly? You set it on something firm and jump up and down on it! It kinda squishes everything down so it fits! Works every time.
Um, did I ever mention that I’m not really a doctor?
