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Warning: You cannot "unsee" this.
Don't be mad at me, you know Wayne would have posted this anyway. There is a picture at the link but I left it out. In the old days they had circus shows that displayed deformed people with similar problems such as the Elephant Man. Now we have tv shows.
TLC has some pretty big balls putting this on the air.
The cable network has just announced a special titled The Man With the 132 lb. Scrotum. Yes, this is happening. Yes, there are photos. We put them semi-discretely below the text, but beware: Once you see a man with a 132-pound scrotum, you cannot unsee him.
The special chronicles the challenges of Wesley Warren Jr., a 49-year-old Las Vegas resident who is living with a rare medical condition called “scrotal lymphedema.” The show will follow “Wes’s life as he deals with day-to-day challenges that are easy for most people. Due to the large size of his scrotum, Wes has difficulty with simple tasks like walking, preparing meals and even going to the restroom.” In the show and in public, Warren wears a hoodie to keep it his scrotum covered up.
More from the channel: “According to Wes, it all began one night in 2008 when he awoke to sharp shooting pains. Afterward, the tissue around his testicles began to swell and grew bigger ever since. It’s estimated that they were growing at an alarming rate of at least 3 lbs per month. The Man With the 132 lb. Scrotum, which highlights the difficulties of living with this bizarre situation, also reveals Wes’s many attempts to find appropriate medical care and raise money for the surgery he desperately needs.”
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Permalink Reply by flippr 2.0 on
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he carries his own bean bag chair.
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Permalink Reply by blithe spirit on
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Never ceases to amaze me the things people are willing to share about their lives...what is it that makes folks wanna do something like this? Are some so starved for attention or some perverted sense of celebrity? Looking for pity maybe? Narcissism maybe?
And yet, I guess some folks are willing to invest the time to watch something like this on TV.
Reality TV...I guess that's what we get with 500 hundred plus hours airtime to fill on cable...thats entertainment..EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Permalink Reply by Lifesighs on
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Why can't a hospital take care of this man and his problem? How awful and humiliating.
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about 30 years ago,there was a guy in town with a "package" like that,though not quite as large,he worked at a local junkyard,after a few years,he simply went and took care of it.he was sorry he didn't do it sooner.
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I don't mean to be funny but,it's not such a big deal,i know 2 guys that had it.
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It's not a rare condition and can be treated depending on the underlying cause. It's when the lymph system isn't working properly for several different reasons and the lymph backs up into a part of the body.
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Permalink Reply by Karin M Fichtner on
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I, too, feel sorry for him. Maybe he's getting paid enough for this show that he can get the medical help he so desperately needs. Or maybe, with this exposure, he will get some financial and medical assistance.
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Permalink Reply by Shadowman on
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I hope so. I have never had cable or satelite TV and this does not create any temptation to do so. It saddens one to see his plight and at the same time it saddens one to think that a TV program might profit from it. I get about 15 channels from free TV over the air waves and am content with that.
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I did a little resaerch and found out the man in question had the surgery he needed and three doctors volunteered to do it at no cost.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2346029/Wesley-Warren-Jr-...
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Thanks Blithe. I will research my "scrotum stories" more thoroughly in the future. I do sometimes read stories on the dailymail.
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