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My friend's balls
DragonPup
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So a good friend of mine was sparring with his son who is studying karate when the son accidently landed a shot on my friend's groin. It's been about two weeks and he says it still hurts. I am trying to tell him he should see his doctor, but he is being very wishy washy. What can I tell him to convince/scare him into seeing his doctor sooner than later.
And yes, he has insurance.
And yes, he has insurance.
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How he's managed to put up with anything like that for two weeks is staggering.
The only thing I can think of is that he's ashamed or embarassed to go to the doctor and talk about / show the doctor his junk. Believe me, Doctors see worse stuff every day. If it's a male doctor (which it mostly likely will be with the description), he'll understand what he's probably going through.
The longer he waits, the more likely permanent damage becomes.
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Get that goose to a doctor, even if you have to strap him down Hannibal style and wheel him down the street. Besides the fact that consistent and uneding pain in any part of your body is bad, we're talking about that kind of pain in the most sensitive of areas. I don't like to jump to conclusions, but he may actually be causing himself significant long term damage here. For instance, a small testicle rupture might have occurred or his wiring might be all tangled up down there*.
Just...why he wouldn't have gone already is beyond me.
*I am not a doctor. Do not take these statements as fact and freak out. Just offering some examples as how serious the situation might be.
It's a lie, but in this case it's a good lie.
Anyway, OP, if you can endure it without having your own genitals shriek in terror and claw their way back up into your body in a desperate attempt at self-preservation, googling something like "testicular trauma" turns up a bunch of informative sites, like this one, which says:
To paraphrase: if your friend knows for absolute super-sure that his junk is intact and undamaged, then yeah, he'll be fine without medical intervention. But in order to know that, he would need to be a goddamned doctor, which I'm assuming he isn't. So, he needs to get a doctor to look at his junk, because if something is wrong with it, ignoring it could lead to yummy stuff like infection and literal crotch-rot.
There are some injuries you can tough it out and ignore until they go away. Getting kicked in the balls so hard you're still feeling it two weeks later isn't one of them, especially if you have health insurance.
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Has he described how sharp or throbbing the pain is? Like on a scale from 1-10. It can't be too unbearable or he'd have gone... but yeah, continuous pain needs to be dealt with ASAP or it could become a chronic condition for a multitude of reasons.
edit: even if it stopped hurting RIGHT NOW, I would take that as a bad sign. One possible scenario is something got twisted and is choking off the bloodsupply to a testicle. The loss of feeling would indicate the nerves finally dying. Seriously. Doctor. Now.
he's probably going to come out fine (how old is this kid, how hard could he really have hit him?), but is that really a chance he wants to take? i'm sure it's a bit embarassing to go to the doctor b/c your kid popped you in the bean bag, but it's probably a lot more embarassing dealing with the resulting potential reproductive organ maladies.
Some people are really adverse to medical emergencies unless you tell them their testicles are about to fall off.
Which they pretty much could. But never having penis in vagina sex again is a real possibility depending on other circumstances. I would categorize this as lying without actually lying.