Posted on 04/08/2024 12:41:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
"I FIGURED [THE SURGEON] WAS MESSING WITH ME, BUT HE HAD TO STOP BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS SHAKING."
Ball Drop
When a small earthquake rattled the New York City area and surrounding states on Friday morning, Pennsylvania resident Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy. As The Guardian reports, the geological rumbling alarmed his surgeon enough to momentarily pause the procedure.
"I thought maybe a train was passing by or it was just something that happens at that office, even when the doctor was like 'I think this is an earthquake,'" Allen told the news outlet. "I figured he was messing with me, but he had to stop because everything was shaking."
Allen, who was under local local anesthesia at the time and hence was awake during the whole thing, told the Guardian he wasn't worried because his doctor had prepared him adequately on what to expect.
"I really wasn’t worried because he had walked me through every step of the procedure, so it mostly felt like a brief speed bump and we were mostly just calm and laughing as the room shook," he said.
Seismic Moment
Afterwards, Allen went on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter to trumpet his unique experience.
"A ******* EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE OF MY VASECTOMY," wrote Allen in a post that went viral.
His wife Bridget followed up with photos of Allen posing in front of the urology office, quipping on X that "I need to add, as the wife of the patient, the only thing this was a 'sign' of was the fact that we should never ever ever have another child ever again... ever."
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that the 4.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at 10:23 am, with the epicenter located near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
Tremors were felt in locales as far flung as Boston and Philadelphia, lighting up social media with reports about the quake.
New Jerseyans on social media were especially peeved that New Yorkers were getting the lion share of headlines, even though the epicenter was smack dab in the middle of the Garden State.
"NJ experiencing the epicenter but watching NYC dominate the earthquake convo," one fretted.
I recall that episode.
It was a lame attempt at a joke. The idea of an earthquake happening when a doctor has a scapple that close the family jewels is funny to me.
I guess he didn’t know if he was coming or going!
one of my co-workers was having a vasectomy and somehow the machine they were using had a ground fault.
he said it was like being tazed in the balls as he flew off the table into the wall and collapsed on the floor breaking his arm.
My co-workers and I all thought he should sue, but he did not.
I am pretty sure that the doctors malpractice ins company would have settled with a large amount so it would not go to a jury trial.
Dang! That some battlefield type improvising.
Talk about scrambled eggs...
Not really. I was an IT analyst. It was second nature to me.
Yea, but with you being tied into the machine.
I hope there wasn’t a Bris happening at the time.
Ahhh, you found it!
Circumcisions can be pretty painful. I couldn’t walk for almost a year after mine.
Based on where the incision happens and the size of the scalpel, the worst thing that was going to happen is the guy would be sterilized.
Now, if it was a neurosurgeon….
I hope you sent them a bill. And everything done in an OR costs three times what it costs anywhere else.
And so they’re typically done at a young age. I don’t even remember mine. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
That was the joke. It was done very soon after my birth, so of course I wasn’t able to walk.
Circumcision jokes. Ah.
Darn. Good on you. As an ex-biomed engineer & cardiovascular physiologist I’m still giving you full credit for performance under fire!
You should have billed the hospital!
That was God, you idiot.
Question:
When a female, or an alleged “female,” or a leftist, or a progressive, communist, socialist, liberal talking head . . .
Glares at you.
Is that a vasectomy?
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