I'm getting neutered, when can I ride again?

**Oakie** · 9th June 2005, 13:46

I used to say never, now way, no how. Then common sense reared it's head.
I'm 45, my daughters are 21 and 18 and I'll be buggered if I'm going to go through all that child-rearing thing again .... as wonderful and rewarding as it was. The next 30 odd years are just for my wife and myself and if the most practical way to achieve that is to have the snip ... then bring it on!

**TonyB** · 9th June 2005, 13:50

Originally Posted by Oakie

I used to say never, now way, no how. Then common sense reared it's head.
I'm 45, my daughters are 21 and 18 and I'll be buggered if I'm going to go through all that child-rearing thing again .... as wonderful and rewarding as it was. The next 30 odd years are just for my wife and myself and if the most practical way to achieve that is to have the snip ... then bring it on!

Too right! I know a bloke about your age who has divorced his first wife, married a lovely nubile young woman, and now has a new born baby to look after......at least if he'd had the snip he'd have a viable excuse not to start all over again...

**Beemer** · 9th June 2005, 15:32

Well, our cat went in for her ovariohysterectomy yesterday (fancy word for a snip and tuck for a female!) and today she's climbing trees, so there!

Wish they hadn't shown Willy de Witt having his vascectomy while I was having my tea the other night though - the operation itself was bad enough, but I can't get the sight of his wrinkled balls out of my mind... I noticed the husband was very quiet while it was on though!

**jazbug5** · 9th June 2005, 16:37

Originally Posted by TonyB

Too right! I know a bloke about your age who has divorced his first wife, married a lovely nubile young woman, and now has a new born baby to look after......at least if he'd had the snip he'd have a viable excuse not to start all over again...

Oh, goodness... it seems I've had my sympathy glands surgically removed somehow. Wonder how that happened..?

**FzerozeroT** · 9th June 2005, 19:31

I'm surprised no-ones bought up the Vatsyayann Technique of vasectomy, if you make a cut in your skin ABOVE the penis you can grab the vas, cut and tie (both sides from one hole) and stitch the wound. so in the end you have 2 or 3 stitches on the pubic mound, so as long as you don't grind into the tank you're sweet.

The guy to ring is the dude who invented it
Suresh Vatsyayann
Vercoe Clinic
(07) 849 2767
Hamilton

Theres info on this site
http://drblayney.com/Vasectomy.html

I know there are other doctors in NZ who use the technique but don't know why the guys who get on TV still use the old technique

**scumdog** · 9th June 2005, 20:14

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Never say never mate

I laughed so much the "Bad vibrations and "Beam me up Buttercup" with "You've lost that fuckin feeling" and "Bites in White Satin" really set the moment"!!!! Ta CB
Bend me Shape me - Amen Corner

**wari** · 10th June 2005, 02:45

Onda farrm ... my labra-door usedta swal-low RAm test-iccles wholle and warrm .. no chewin' needed ..

HOlldon ...

... wasdat rell-e-vent .. dunno ... :spudwhat:

BOy datt looks good ... ==>

<== ... CAn he drink orr what

**wari** · 10th June 2005, 02:49

Originally Posted by Beemer

...Wish they hadn't shown Willy de Witt having his vascectomy while I was having my tea the other night though - ...

WIlly da HAlff witt ..

...

**MSTRS:Me** · 10th June 2005, 09:42

Originally Posted by wari

WIlly da HAlff witt ..

...

Time for a name change? Willy de Snip?

**Oakie** · 10th June 2005, 09:53

Well I thought just using a guy with the name 'Willy' was a bit of a joke anyway.

**MSTRS:Me** · 10th June 2005, 10:02

Originally Posted by Oakie

Well I thought just using a guy with the name 'Willy' was a bit of a joke anyway.

If it hadn't been caught on film, I'd have said "Willy? BettieWon't"

**vifferman** · 10th June 2005, 10:16

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Time for a name change? Willy de Snip?

His real name's William McGechie (sp?)
When I lived in Hamilton, my mate worked with him in the "Funny Business" comedy troupe. They visited us, and he left some money on our toilet cistern to pay for using it...

Actually, I watched them live, and he's very good at handling hecklers and wotnot - that was funnier than his routine.

My (ex)mate sucked.

**Podo** · 18th June 2005, 10:14

I was back in the saddle the same day, and I'm a wus.

**Oakie** · 6th February 2006, 19:13

Just thought I'd wrap this old thread up. Here's an extract from my annual homepage report to friends and family with the gory details of the snip.

A disconnection. Ok. This was a biggie for me. This year I felt the the time was right for me to go under the knife and get the plumbing altered. In August I had a vasectomy. All sorts of reasons indicated that this was a good course of action to take .... and so the action was taken!
It was an interesting experience to say the least. It actually took me six weeks to make my initial appointment from the time I got the information on it during my 'men's wellness' checkup in May (oh yes it's been an enlightening year medically for me!). Courage was mustered though and I did eventually make the phone call and arranged my first consultation.
The consultation went well once I got over the trauma of another fella handling my wedding tackle. I then listened to his well practiced presentation (with diagrams) on what would happen and remember thinking that he sounded a bit like a recording ... which is entirely reasonable as he'd done something like 3000 such presentations before mine. I was paying great attention and being mature about the whole thing .... but then he ruined it by saying the 'M' word. "The 'M' word?" I hear you say. Yes ... 'masturbation'. The sentence was "after three months you need to provide a sample for testing and you do that by masturbation". Now it wasn't so much the word ... it was how he pronounced it with great emphasis on the 's'. Sort of like "masssssturbation". That was it. I lost my detached matter-of-fact air regarding this fella poking around in my genitalia with a glorified soldering iron and began a huge internal battle to avoid giggling like a school-boy because at the same time I damned near quipped "Oh neat, any excuse will do" and just managed to bite my tongue in time. I'm pleased to report though that I was able to retain at least my outward show of decorum and within a short time return to total seriousness. ( A fella telling you how he is going to slice into your scrotum with a scalpel will promote a feeling of seriousness ... believe me!).

Any how...the fateful day arrived and with Vicki for company I presented myself at the the doctor's surgery at 9.15 a.m. ready for neutering. I'm sure I could make up lots of horror stories about it but it wasn't that bad. The worst part was after he had made the first incision, hooked out the vas with the crochet hook or whatever he used to hook it out with (nooooo, I didn't look) and started the actual 'ectomy' part of the operation. At that time I smelt smoke. I was concerned that the next words I would hear were "Oh I'm sorry Mr Oakden, I seem to have set you scrotum on fire" but I believe that was just the separating/cauterising part of the op. Anyway, it was all over in twenty minutes and probably less distressing than the same amount of time spent in a dentist's chair. I suppose to sum up I need say no more than at the start the doc hooked me up to a pulse monitoring thingee. At that time my pulse rate was 60. During the op it never got above 72. As I walked to the car I felt pretty damned tough.

That feeling lasted for about another 20 minutes.

Then the local anaesthetic wore off.

For the next couple of days then it felt like someone had bent back a wooden ruler and flicked me in the nuts with it ... but that they'd done it five minutes ago so that it was a dull ache rather than being 'rolling on the ground holding your bollocks' acutely sore. In all honesty it took me about a month to get completely over it. The dull ache subsided in a couple of days but I still felt it grab whenever I ran or jumped or otherwise jarred my nether regions. Fortunately though it was all better by the time cricket started again at the end of September and that was certainly part of the plan.

There's a little more but it included a couple of links (one to here) and I didn't know if I could copy / paste that.
Feel free to check out the rest of my homepage if you want. The first bit is about biking. The address is in my profile.