Scrotum

I know you are very wary of this blog with a title like that and me being me, but please read on. At my current job, people get wounds EVERYWHERE. I have had to hold up an obese women's stomach before b/c her wound was actually in a fold. We have a quadriplegic who has them on his buttocks from sitting so much. But the icing on the cake, recently a man came in with a scrotum wound. It's actually on his"perial" also known to most of us as the "taint". I figured with the doctor and nurse i would'nt be in on this one. Well.........i was wrong. I got to hold his scrotum back while the doctor and nurse bandaged him up. I felt so bad for him, he was in intense pain b/c of this wound. So he's laying flat with his knees bent so we can get at his wound(i now have a new apprciation for when you women go to the obg/yn) when his wife asks in what room will the home health nurse do his wound care at home. The doctor replies somewhere where he will be able to lie flat like we have him, so the nurse can dress the wound. At that point the doctor tells the wife it would actually be better if his feet where raised in the air a little to make it easier. So.......with my left hand still gently cusping his scrotum the doctor tells me to grab his right leg and raise it.I'm now on his right side with his scrotum in my left hand,his right leg in my right hand, and the doctor talking about wound care. She's at this point not really finishing the dressing....just standing there talking!!Needless to say we finished up, i srubed my hands for a good 30 minutes(yes i was wearing gloves), and that was all. The good news...he comes back on a Mon.,Wed.,Fri., schedule. So if you think you're having a bad day on monday just remember you could be holding another man's scrotum and his leg in the air!!!!