2002-02-03 - 9:54 a.m.
Hey from Los Angeles. I've been trying to write every day on my Palm Pilot and as soon as I figure out how to download it, I'll post it. In the meantime, check out this email I got.
"Wammo, I'm a 4th-year medical student and Spankers devotee here in Lexington, KY. As I mentioned to you in passing at your last show here, I loved _Faster than the Speed of Suck_; "Doing Time on Aisle 13" made it onto my Christmas Card Mix CD this year.
So anyway, I'm on Urology this month, also known as Nut and Butt Surgery. We had a guy who came in this week with Fournier's gangrene, a rapid necrosis of the genitals and perineum. In other words, big-time crotch rot. Fortunately, this is a rare condition outside the tight demographic of 450-pound poorly controlled diabetics with bad personal hygiene, such as our patient this week. Anyway, the only way to treat this is to remove all of the affected tissue--usually including the entire scrotum. This leaves the boys just hanging in the breeze (until it heals enough for plastic surgery to cover them up), and leaves me (the med student, aka the Bitch) with the twice-daily job of changing the dressing on the wound.
And every time I do it, THAT DAMN SONG starts going through my head! Thanks. No, really, thanks. So the next time you're wondering what you'd do if it wasn't there, you'd probably be lying in a bed in the ICU, with some schmuck med student wrapping the jewels in gauze a few times a day. Kind of makes you appreciate it that much more, doesn't it?
Keep on Spankin',
Jonathan Piercy
UK College of Medicine"
Ah the Scrotum song. What every good little student needs.
