drawbacks of membership

Missed this from yesterday.

Doctors have previously succeeded in reuniting men with their sexual organs after traumatic accidents or attacks, but the Guangzhou operation is the first in which a donor penis has successfully been attached to another man.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

Well that seems a bit ungrateful. But…

Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for many patients receiving certain "allografts", or organs from donors. "Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face..."

Ah yes. Now I see the problem. In particular, I see the wife’s problem. By extension, as it were.

Comments

[Backword Dave]

Speaking of which, how's the bollocks? (Or how *are* the bollocks, for any grammarians.)

[Matthew]

And indeed have you considered who you might want to leave them to?

[jamie]

In reasonable nick as it goes, though not quite as - what can I say - symmetrical as before. The interesting thing is that the skin's grown back perfectly smooth, which is kind of creepy.

Cant complain, though. Poor little chap's been through the wars.

I envision them, as a pair, amusing generations to come in a jar of alcohol in a freakshow.