Yes, I’ve arranged to have a vasectomy. This afternoon. It’s the only time I’ll be glad to be a numbnuts.
Feel free to use this forum to make jokes at my expense. I will be doing the same. Sometimes laughter is the best medicine.
Sorry, I can’t make a joke, but I will offer unsolicited advice - Listen to your Dr and take it easy, with an ice pack, for the next coupla days. One friend of mine did just that and he had no problems at all. Another thought he was macho enough to go play football afterwards - he wound up in bed for a week. So be a good, obedient patient, as I’m sure you will be.
Best wishes for an uneventful snip!
Having gone through it myself, I would never, ever make fun of anyone about to have it done. Just make sure you get all the details on follow-up procedures. If you don’t then you may wind up with a fabulously embarrassing incident involving a sterile specimen container about a week from now. I speak from experience.
Oh, boy. And we thought Not-Mrs.-Dave-Guy was lovey with the babies before. Look out! We’ll never get’em back!
The Better Half survived it, you will, too.
story I’ve told before–while the [large black female] nurse was shaving him, she told him, “Honey, you sure must love your wife, to be doing this for her…”
um, yeah
Make sure they do a good job. My stepsister’s husband had one side done, and they couldn’t find the other side. He was supposed to go back for a follow up, and instead she gets pregnant with kid #4.
Ivylad said the doc told him, “You may feel a slight tugging sensation” and it actually felt like a mule kicked him in the ribs.
When I first registered at SDMB on there was a hilarious post by some guy who’d had a vasectomy and the doc missed with the needle, so he had one side snipped without anesthesia. So if it hurts, don’t try to be macho, yell your damn head off.
Let us know how it goes.
Been there, done that.
The whisp of smoke from the cauterization is supposed to be there. They are not setting your nether regions on fire.
I second the suggestion to take care of yourself. A bag of frozen veggies makes a good ice pack. You are not required to save the veggies and serve them at a later date, even if it is your in-laws who are coming to dinner.
And you can use the standard joke for this situation. They will tape John Wallis down, to hold him out of the way. When you tell friends about it later, you can tell them that, when the doctor removed that tape, he tore every hair off of your chest.
Welcome home, Dave-guy! Hope the bits are recovering nicely.
Mrs. AG & I are discussing whether to go with this or the ol’ tube-tie. May be a flip of the coin, but we’re going to consult our doctors about the repercussions of each. I’m sure there’s a separate thread for it, but if Dave feels like sharing once he’s better, it’d be great to hear from him and any others who’ve been on the receiving end.
ArchiveGuy, both Bluesman and I have had the procedures for our respective sexes, and we both agree that mine was much rougher on me than his was on him.
Before I got pregnant with my son, I went to my doctor, and asked him for information on getting my tubes tied. He looked me right in the face and said “I’ll tell you everything you want to know, as long as you promise not to have it done.” This confused me for a bit, then he said “It’s really so much easier for your husband to have a vasectomy.”
He told me about both procedures, and we determined that yes, a vasectomy really is a much easier procedure. So, that’s what we had done. Four weeks after our son was born. sigh
But anyway, if it’ll make you feel better, Dave, the doctor that performed the procedure on my husband was named Dr. Wang…
I shall from now on call you a Christmas tree.
For those comparing tube tying with vasectomy, yes, the vasectomy is much easier. But check out the newly approved (in the US) Essure method. Much less invasive than the abdominal surgery required for literal ‘tube tying’.
And GOOD LUCK DAVE ! I hope I’ll be joining you, in the ranks of the voluntarily sterile before the end of next year
A tip I’ve heard elsewhere : frozen peas are your friend !
Why? Because I’ve been trimmed, or because my balls are now merely decorative?
Yep … ornamental balls.
I shouldn’t joke. I’ll be doing the same thing eventually.
Well, good to see old Dave can still type! Hope the recovery is smooth and as pain-free as is reasonably possible.
Pain-free now.
I’ll probably post with the details tomorrow, since I’m going to be home all day recovering.
All I can say now is that I’m glad it’s a one-time procedure.
And Euty, joke all you want. I sure am. Let’s face it, it’s just kinda funny…
Of course he can still type! It only SEEMS like he’s typing with his penis sometimes!
:::d&r:::
I type with my fingers. I think with my penis.
It’s a guy thing. We all do it.
You’ll still be thinking with your penis even after the procedure, don’t worry.
Mr. Legend had this done after we’d had our quota of children, and I was all ready to feel sorry for him because of the pain and discomfort he went through. Then I remembered labor and delivery. Twice.