I debated about posting this article. Most people (more mature than I) can read an article like this (courtesy of boingboing) frown with empathy and move on. Me, well, I read something like this, go, "WHAT!!!" read it again…and just laugh out loud. It’s not right of me I know. I need prayer. The sad thing is that I contemplate this type of dilemma later on during the week.
(P.S. Is it any wonder this first happened here in China? To me it’s not so hard to believe…)
Feel the need to enlighten you further, quoting the lastest ‘news’ from quality British newspaper, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ Quite what psychological trauma caused the woman to force the poor man to have another humiliating operation is beyond me!
Penis in ‘successful transplant’ is removed
By Nic Fleming, Medical Correspondent and Richard Spencer in Beijing
(Filed: 19/09/2006)
A man who had the world’s first successful penis transplant had to have the organ removed two weeks later because of a problem with his wife.
The 44-year-old father of three children was left with a 0.4in stump and was unable to urinate or have intercourse after being involved in a car accident.
Surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital, in China, spent 15 hours attaching a 4in organ taken from a brain-dead 22-year-old man after his parents agreed.
The surgical team claimed the operation was a success. They said that, after 10 days, blood was flowing into the transplanted penis, that there was no sign of the patient’s body rejecting it and that the man was able to urinate normally.
However, in next month’s issue of the journal European Urology, they report that they had to remove the organ because of “a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”.
Dr Weilie Hu, one of the surgeons involved in the operation, writes: “The recipient could urinate smoothly in a standing position at day 10 after removal of the catheter.”
Doctors have previously reconnected severed penises after accidents or attacks but this was thought to be the first time surgeons had claimed a successful transplant.
Local media referred to the man by the pseudonym Zhang and said that he was able to sustain an erection immediately after the operation, which took place a year ago. The operation was said to have cost £3,500.
Many transplants in China involve the use of organs removed from executed prisoners but the specific circumstances of the donor in this case are not known.
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