Hate it when this happens
You know what it’s like. You go off to have a pee carrying your pet fish in your hand and – vrooom! The beast wiggles itself into your penis, up your urethra. Damned quick, these fish. And cunning too.
The latest victim appears to be a 14-year old Indian boy who seems bedevilled with bad luck. Not to mention a fish in his penis, which turned out to be a “small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide”.
The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: “While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms.”
Now I don’t know about 14-year old Indian boys but.. 1.5cm wide? Ouch! Really awwww! And the procedure to remove the fish doesn’t sound any less eina:
After detecting the fish in the boy’s bladder, Vezhaventhan and
Jeyaraman used a technique known as cystourethroscopy to insert a
special set of forceps down the patient’s penis. Unfortunately, the
fish was just too slippery to grip, so they resorted to using a rigid
ureteroscope with a tool attached that is normally used for removing
bladder stones.
It seems the boy didn’t just take it in his stride:
He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.
I’ve made a firm resolution today: inconvenient as it may be, I will no longer carry my pet fish when urinating. In fact, to be on the safe side, I will eschew all fauna from my micturation.
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