Johnny Lee Banks, Jr went in for a simple circumcision, but he came out one hot dog short of a bun.
You’ve heard the horror stories at some point or another. Guy goes into the hospital for routine work, and something catastrophic happens. Sometimes the surgeon leaves medical equipment where he performed surgery. In other rare occasions, the surgical team will cut off the wrong leg. However, every once in awhile, surgeons find a way to really shit the bed on a patient, and the results are far more devastating than can be imagined.
The winner of the latest “You Poor Bastard” award goes to Johnny Lee Banks, Jr of Birmingham, Alabama, who went in to the hospital for what was thought to be a simple circumcision. When he woke up in the recovery room, his worst nightmare came to life: he no longer had a penis.
I myself often have nightmares. I’ve dreamed of falling off mountains, drowning, freezing to death, eaten by wild dogs and even executed in a gas chamber. However, never in any of my darkest, most desperate dreams could I ever fathom having my dick cut off by a doctor. For Banks, a surgically-removed penis is a fact of life.
Naturally, Banks and his wife are suing the Urology Centers of Alabama for unspecified damages (read: MILLIONS). Now it’s not known why Banks, 56, needed a circumcision so late in life, but regardless of the reason, Banks claims in the suit that he was never warned that the procedure might result in an amputation, and he certainly never gave his consent for a full or even partial amputation.
Generally, when you get your dick cut off, there’s no going back. Sure, you can have reattachment surgery, and there’s even a fair to middling chance that it’ll succeed. However, there is no successful way to get past the trauma of being dickless. There is nothing to suggest that Banks got his penis back, much less having it reattached. The report from the Daily Mail states that Banks remains in “extreme pain” and has been unable to work since the surgery.
Some wounds run just a little too deeply.