He should have skipped this jump rope.
A 79-year-old Japanese man managed to get a 90-inch jump-rope stuck in his bladder after allegedly shoving the rope into his penis.
Doctors wrote in a September study published in Urology Case Reports that the unidentified man inserted the rope through his urethra, however, the handle-less rope became tangled and stuck in the man’s bladder.
The man was forced to seek medical help, complaining that he was suffering from a condition called dysuria — difficulty with urination — only for doctors to find the rope.
Medics unraveled the medical mystery by investigating his bladder where they found “a large object accompanied by acoustic shadows.”
It was then the man admitted what had happened — although he did not explain why he did it — and was transferred to a hospital.
An X-ray then revealed this object was “a wire-like coiled foreign body.”
According to doctors, there was no way to remove the rope the way it went in, so they had to perform surgery on the patient.
“Transurethral extraction was difficult considering the length of the rope and its entanglement in the bladder,” said Professor Toshiki Kijima, co-author of the study.
“Traditionally, grasping forceps and retrieval baskets are used to remove foreign bodies,” continued Kijima. “However, wires inserted into the bladder usually curl up as the bladder contracts; therefore, special consideration is required for wire-like foreign bodies.”
The medical team had to retrieve the rope through an incision made in the man’s abdomen to remove the rope in full.
Thankfully, the man recovered from the surgery and suffered no long-term injury.
This patient is not the first to suffer penis-related problems. Also in September, a teen somehow managed to get a USB cable stuck in his penis which was, thankfully, also able to be extracted via surgery.
