Real nurse's story

[SplitDik (imported)]

I came across this first person account which seems factual. However, the story made me kind of mad though because they really didn't handle the guy properly.

http://misadventurousmelissa.blogspot.c ... rator.html

The Castrator

The patient had driven himself to the E.R. following a "shaving accident." His pants were soaked in blood and he was walking gingerly. He was quickly given a room and told to remove his pants. This was an unusual shaving accident. His scrotum sported a neatly sutured incision, along with a rubber band being used to form a tourniquet.

A urologist was paged and soon the patient was rushed into surgery. A couple of arteries had been cut through and needed to be tied off. The patient knew how to suture his skin back together, but tying off blood vessels was beyond his skill level. The blood loss had been massive. And, the testicles were gone.

The patient stuck to his story that it was a shaving accident. Were we unreasonable to assume that he was nuts? We all had our theories about what had happened. Perhaps it was revenge for a bad drug deal or maybe he was attacked by loan sharks. Could it have been kinky sex?

The psychiatrist couldn't get any information from him. The patient angrily insisted that it was a shaving accident. In all of the years that I've known this psychiatrist, this was the first time I ever heard him say that someone was crazy and dangerous. We needed to get him to a locked facility.

The patient was a strong, healthy man in his prime. Transferring him against his will was going to be a challenge and the doctor was afraid that someone might get hurt in the process. It was decided to sneak the patient a special cocktail to knock him out for the journey.

Four big security guards, the house supervisor, the doctor and assorted nurses watched as I prepared the syringe. His nurse went into his room and asked if he would like some pain medication. He said yes. I handed her the syringe and we all waited in a huddle just outside the door. He didn't question why this medication was being injected into muscle when all of the other medications had been given in his IV line. We got lucky. The worst was over, or so we thought.

About 45 minutes later the ambulance arrived. Security came back to help with the transfer. The patient was fast asleep, so this looked like a piece of cake. Unfortunately, the patient woke up. This cocktail would have killed me, but in him, it had no affect. He went wild. He was in a fight for his life. The six men were lying on top of him, trying to tie him up. They were all yelling, sweating and panting. The patient was screaming obscenities and demanding to speak to his lawyer. After a couple of minutes, the guards were yelling at us to call the doctor. They were losing the battle.

Another cocktail was ordered, which this time, I gave. There was no more need for deceit. He jerked his arm and the needle came out. It took several pokes before I was able to administer the full dose. The patient looked at me with fire in his eyes. I knew he wanted to kill me.

Tired of watching the battle, I went to the front nursing station and sat down. After a while, I saw the ambulance crew wheel him by. The patient was tightly tied to the gurney and was no longer struggling.

The psychiatrist was a little worried about the patient, given the massive amount drugs we had given the patient. He called the facility several times during the night to make sure the patient was still breathing. Some time the next day, he finally woke up.

At the psych facility. the patient finally cracked and explained what happened and why. He was a sex addict and out of control. His doctor had refused to give him any medications to blunt his sex drive, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. Self-castration was his solution.

He is now out of the psych facility. He did return to visit the security office. He looked at one of the guards and said, "I remember you" and then left. We're not sure if that was a threat. I'm really hoping that he doesn't remember me. Anyway, I hope that his surgical solution solved his problem. The doctor doesn't think it will because the addiction is in his brain, not testicles. Too bad we will never know how things turned out.

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

I came across this first person account which seems factual. However, the story made me kind of mad though because they really didn't handle the guy properly.

http://misadventurousmelissa.blogspot.c ... rator.html

...Too bad we will never know how things turned out.

Well, I, for one, would like to know how his "Thing" turned out now that it's two best friends have gone away.

Yoli

I am SOOOOOO bad!

[wannabe (imported)]

i realy dont agree wth people being taken anywhere against their will, but then again ive never had any good experiences with psych's, i dont trust any of their opinions about any person, and at the end of the day that is all they have, an opinion on someone, and for a person to be held against their will because of someones opinion of you... i think id want to kill and give a few looks with fire in my eyes too!:(

[SplitDik (imported)]

i realy dont agree wth people being taken anywhere against their will, but then again ive never had any good experiences with psych's, i dont trust any of their opinions about any person, and at the end of the day that is all they have, an opinion on someone, and for a person to be held against their will because of someones opinion of you... i think id want to kill and give a few looks with fire in my eyes too!:(

I think it is a SANE reaction to fight tooth and nail if you found out that you'd been drugged against your will and about to be strapped into a straight-jacket.

The situation in the blog is exactly how police brutality occurs -- a simple case of an uncooperative but otherwise unviolent person is made violent because it is escalated by the police/security. We don't know the whole story, but as it was described he was not threatening others or himself and they hadn't even really waited to see if he might relent and consent to an evaluation. They just took it upon himself to create a violent altercation and even inject him without his consent with a potentially lethal dose of drugs.

They took his embarrassment to be "resistance" and his self-harm to be "dangerous". It is very annoying.

[wannabe (imported)]

very well said split, thankyou

[Dave (imported)]

But what do we keep warning people when they ask about "do it yourself" testicle removal?

If you must save your life and go to the emergency room, then expect to be put on a psychiatric hold. Neither the Doctors, Nurses, hospital or anyone else involved in health care can let you go if they have reason to believe you can hurt yourself. That's their jobs on the line. That's their future at stake.

[SplitDik (imported)]

But what do we keep warning people when they ask about "do it yourself" testicle removal?

If you must save your life and go to the emergency room, then expect to be put on a psychiatric hold. Neither the Doctors, Nurses, hospital or anyone else involved in health care can let you go if they have reason to believe you can hurt yourself. That's their jobs on the line. That's their future at stake.

Yeah, certainly if you go to a doctor with self-harm you should expect they will require you to see a psych professional. That seems like prudent protocol. But this doesn't help when the psych professional is the one over-reacting and escalating the incident.

I'm pretty sure the psych was affected by the type of injury because he didn't understand the "sane" reasons for wanting to do that.

Anyway, in my experience all medical staff have been very professional despite all sorts of self-injuries, including removing various things embedded in my testicles, etc.

But definitely don't resist seeing a psych specialist.

[chilliwilli (imported)]

People who do self harm to their genitals or are harmed during a sexual act will have a certain degree of embarassment. Assessing a persons sanity is typically left up to social workers and psychiatrists trained in assessing individuals intentions during a stressful time. Any medical professional who further humiliates someone or escalates a situation to violence is an idiot, and their are a few of them out there, not many but they are there.

chilli-

[halfcock (imported)]

The psychiatrist want and cant accept, that a mass of our problems are caused and placed in our testicles and sac. Sure is much of drive in our braine, but it gets forced and multiplied by our balls and testosterone! and so the loosing of the balls will help us to handle our normal braine drive...