Not on the edge of priapism; he had been in priapism for 5 days. As a urologist, I can tell you at that point, he will never have a normal erection again. The blot clots and leads to ischemia and necrosis (tissue death through oxygen deprivation) of the erectile tissue.
The blood clots? So for a while one has, essentially, a rock hard boner that really lasts. What a way to go! Sort of like the baseball dictum. “Go down swinging!”