Here I lay on the couch with my bag of peas after this morning's trip to the vet...er urologist. 😃
I had a bilateral no-scalpel performed under local anesthesia, and 20mg of diazepam to settle things down. The procedure was frankly a non-event. I dropped trough and laid down on the chair (damn, no stirrups or knee crutches). The doctor hit my freshly shaved scrotum with about 6 injections of a local. A few small stings and burns. No big deal, but makes me want to try scrotal inflation with saline even more. The doc left for 5 minutes to let the local take effect, and the tech came in and started setting the room up. He wheeled in a portable surgical lamp, a cart with the electro-cautery equipmemt, and another sterile tray of the assorted clamps, scalpels, sutures, and needles.
The tech then proceeded to get me set up for surgery. He had me lift my ass and placed the grounding pad underneath my left cheek. He donned sterile gloves and swabbed my entire groin; scrotum, penis, and thighs, with betadine. He then draped the area in sterile sheets, positioning my penis up and out of the way. The doc returned and donned sterile gloves and got to business on my right side. He felt around for the cord, a bit of pulling and tugging, and checked for numbness with the forceps. I couldn't see the surgical field, just the various clamps and tools. I felt a bit of a sharp pain, let him know, and he injected more local. Stitched it up and moved to the left side. He redid the cord block since I had some sensation, and then rinse and repeat. The whole thing took about half an hour, and we chatted, surprisingly, about BDSM most of the time. Had some good laughs about foreign body removal and some of the things they each had seen in their careers so far.
Sorry to disappoint Lady Anna, but I'm damn close to considering my vasectomy procedure a good time!