October 19, 201114 yr AMERICAN Wesley Warren Jr has told how he needs a $1million operation to remove his SEVEN STONE testicles. The 47-year-old has suffered in silence with the enormous growth on his scrotum but is now pleading for help so he can get life-changing surgery. His testicles have grown so large that he cannot wear jeans or trousers anymore and lives on a diet of antibiotics and medications. Instead Wesley, from Las Vegas, US, has to wear a hoodie - placing his legs in the arms and using the hood to support the growth. Wesley said: "It's not easy to get around, it makes me stay in most of the time." But he refuses to let his unfortunate condition get him down, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He added: "I want to have real friends and a relationship with a woman. Operation ... Wesley Warren Jr http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3879480/Man-with-giant-testicles-needs-1million-op.html
October 19, 201114 yr I love the bit where he talks about wanting a normal relationship and being depressed....movie stardom mate cmon!
October 19, 201114 yr Author I love the bit where he talks about wanting a normal relationship and being depressed....movie stardom mate cmon! snow white and the seven ..........................
October 19, 201114 yr I love the bit where he talks about wanting a normal relationship and being depressed....movie stardom mate cmon! snow white and the seven .......................... I can't bear the sight of haemhorroids!
October 20, 201114 yr Elephantiasis of the scrotum is not something to make jokes about. The REAL crime is that a country as rich as the USA does not have medical aid for people with small incomes. Canada and most European countries have medical aid for those that can not pay. Why doesn't the USA?
October 20, 201114 yr Actually, I am with Ian on this , poor man it must be horrendous. And disgraceful it can't be corrected. Sorry, but this is just way too much suffering for one person for me to be able to laugh at it.
October 21, 201114 yr Actually, I am with Ian on this , poor man it must be horrendous. And disgraceful it can't be corrected. Sorry, but this is just way too much suffering for one person for me to be able to laugh at it. As it stands now, I fully agree with you. But it didn't happen overnight. Surely there must have been an instant when the guy realised that there was something wrong, where treatment could have been provided at low cost for a minor problem. Look at Lance Armstrong and his testicular cancer. He had it treated and continued his great career as a cyclist. To me this is ignorance on the part of the family as well as the financial rapacity of private medecine. And there's Medicare or something, isn't there?
October 21, 201114 yr AS sbk says, it's hardly a laughing matter. I did see a very old photo of an African guy with his in a wheelbarrow though.
October 21, 201114 yr Actually, I am with Ian on this , poor man it must be horrendous. And disgraceful it can't be corrected. Sorry, but this is just way too much suffering for one person for me to be able to laugh at it. As it stands now, I fully agree with you. But it didn't happen overnight. Surely there must have been an instant when the guy realised that there was something wrong, where treatment could have been provided at low cost for a minor problem. Look at Lance Armstrong and his testicular cancer. He had it treated and continued his great career as a cyclist. To me this is ignorance on the part of the family as well as the financial rapacity of private medecine. And there's Medicare or something, isn't there? Not really, medicare is for retired people, Medicaid is only for poor people who qualify. If you aren't poor enough for Medicaid but not rich enough for insurance than you just go without. Treatment in the US is extremely expensive, I never go back without travel insurance as if something happened neither I nor my family could cover the costs. We aren't poor enough for that and not rich enough to pay cash, my sister tells me just the ambulance ride is $1000. A visit to the doctor's office averages around $200 according to reports.
October 21, 201114 yr According to a reader's comment below the story he could have had immediate treatment in his home state at reasonable cost but there was a possibility of slight disfigurement so he waited 2 years and then went to one of the most expensive hospitals in the country.
October 21, 201114 yr Or so the reader says. I have no idea. I just know that medical care in the US is outrageously expensive.
October 22, 201114 yr Another reader's comment from the Sun story You all might try reading the actual story from the newspaper's website to get the full facts. He doesn't have private insurance because he has Medicaid and his hospital in Nevada said there was a surgery that Medicaid would cover but he decided on his own to get another opinion from UCLA hospital in Southern CA. He is a resident of NV and his benefits don't transfer from state to state so if he wants the hospital in CA to do a surgery (not just a basic surgery but one with multiple plastic surgeons on hand) then he would have to take care of it himself. It's a million dollar treatment because it requires so much reconstructive surgery. So it seems he does have a choice and his choice is one of the most prestigious hospitals in the USA out of his state of residence. My heart goes out to him but I think maybe if he had done what the doctors recommended back in 2008 when this first appeared and not waited 3 years his situation wouldn't have been so drastic and the surgery so involved. I question his asking for direct donations to his cause also. Since he can get it taken care of in NV for free who's to say he wouldn't go ahead and do that then keep the million (or whatever he ends up with) for himself??? I'm not saying this is correct or not, but it seems that The Sun hasn't told the whole story.
October 22, 201114 yr We dont know what Medicaid would cover. God only knows, but having gone through the insurance scam that is health care in the US with my parents, I have no faith in them for doing the right thing whatsoever.
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