P-nis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops

nytimes.com ^ | 12-6-2015 | DENISE GRADY

[servo1969]

Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a p-nis transplant.

The organ will come from a deceased donor, and the surgeons, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, say they expect it to start working in a matter of months, developing urinary function, sensation and, eventually, the ability to have sex.

From 2001 to 2013, 1,367 men in military service suffered wounds to the genitals in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. Nearly all were under 35 and were hurt by homemade bombs, commonly called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s. Some lost all or part of their p-nises or t-sticles - what doctors call genitourinary injuries.

Missing limbs have become a well-known symbol of these wars, but genital damage is a hidden wound - and, to many, a far worse one - cloaked in shame, stigma and embarrassment.

[CGASMIA68]

If it works will medicare cover it for Non-Combat types.

[pepsi_junkie]

P-nis Transplants

I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat.

[GraceG]

What we need more is spine transplants for our elected RINo class.

[tumblindice]

A beef wh_stle?

[LukeL]

He’s going to be very popular.

[BwanaNdege]

Known in ‘Nam as “The Wound!”

(shutter....)

[Night Hides Not]

Well, you might be able to change your handle from Laz to Pinto.

[Magic Fingers]

Close, but that’s actually a d—k h—d.

[servo1969]

Just trying to keep this on the board and not have it removed. Mainly I was just concerned about the part that shows on main News list.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Maybe they can take donations from transvestites. They are getting them cut off anyway.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Laugh of the day -
Young Frankenstein Classic!

[Bubba_Leroy]

If it works will medicare cover it for Non-Combat types.

If it works, Obamacare will cover it for transexuals (meaning that the rest of us will be forced to pay for it so that transexuals can get it for free).

[Lizavetta]

So sad. Losing your privates ... and then seeing someone else's privates sewed onto you ... and then hoping you can use it as a man.

But let's not forget that it's Bruce Jenner that has "courage".

[OpusatFR]

Maybe they can transplant some balls on our pResident.

[jonascord]

There are a few in the Oval Office, never been used, and unlikely to be...

[LowOiL]

I guess I should register to become a donor in case the worse happens, I should be able to have a 2 or 3 average joes. Laz I understand might help a dirty dozen or so.

[LowOiL]

have = help

[TheThirdRuffian]

It all depends.

[Hot Tabasco]

The whole having to look down and see another man’s uh hu, much less have to touch it to go #1. No thanks.

Wouldn't it be better than looking down and seeing nothing?

The primary goal about this experimental surgery is to restore semi-normal urinary function and any possibility of having sex is in the far off horizon...........

I hope it's successful

[LostInBayport]

A w-ng?