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An American has turned to the internet to raise $1m to pay for an operation to fix his scrotum, which has swollen to an eye-watering 45kg. Aussie Reg reader Andrew pointed us towards the case of Wesley Warren Jr, who has been afflicted with scrotal elephantiasis for the last three years. The condition is common in Africa, …

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  1. Nick 10

    Shouldn't his name be Buster Gonad?

    1. TRT Silver badge

      He's getting treatment from a Russian doctor, you know; Gunter Hackyabolokov.

      1. LarsG

        Lars Gonards....

        The Norwegian was treated by the same guy but I think his name was Viktor Yankabollockov

  2. TRT Silver badge

    I'm sure Viz magazine would sponsor him.

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    1. Northern Fop
      Trollface

      Close? Yes!

      Cigar? No.

  4. HP Cynic

    Ah the wonders of the American Healthcare System: great if you can afford the ridiculous premiums and are then lucky enough to get them to cough up in times of need.

    Anyway I feel sorry for him and wish him good luck.

    1. Marvin the Martian
      Linux

      $1,000,000?

      I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous made-up number. I guess he'll need it to retire on after the say $20,000 operation which made him the world's laughing stock.

      For £300K you can have a series of operations to separate conjoined/siamese twins --- from flying them in with parents and lodging those for many weeks in London, to several operations to separate circulation and blood/brain barriers and bone and other tissues, and so forth and so forth.

      As if the problem wasn't worth snipping off at 10kg... Or is he so massively overweight that he didn't notice given the overhanging belly?

    2. MacGyver
      FAIL

      I remember their original M.O., deny claim at first, then deny again, then finally pay after you pushed the issue, and they couldn't figure out any other way to not pay it.

      Plus they had the racket of the century going for a while:

      Have job at (A), hurt your back forever, insurance company (G) pays while at job (A).

      Leave job (A), get job with (B), new insurance company (H) says prior condition, not covered.

      Throw in a few more jobs over the years, and everything that hurts and is broken is a prior condition and not covered, still pay high premium, for what's left that isn't broken only

      .

      I don't know what it's like under the new plan. But I can tell you that the best insurance plan I ever had was under the Army, and it was the very definition of social medicine. Everyone pays the same price (by grade), and whatever is wrong is covered and fixed, period Yet the Repubs in the states think anything "social" is a Russian plot. I have even seen soldiers that were Republican bitching about President Obama trying to give everyone socialized medicine, they didn't even realize that that's what they themselves had. Hell Republican senators have had their own private socialized medical plan for years.

      1. Zippy the Pinhead

        @MacGyver

        If the Law enacted by Congress is good enough for the rest of us.. then maybe Congress should be forced to join it as well!

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    1. zen1
      Meh

      I'm thinking

      Either the national distributor of Brazil Nuts or Adidas (soccer/football ball division) would be naturals! My guess is that he could probably get a better deal through tissue/organ donation.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    And yet...

    ...so many Americans think a national health service is a bad thing. If he was a UK citizen, he'd most likely already have been treated and would be on the road to recovery by now. It's obscene that he has to even think about the cost. Oh that's right, I forgot- in American English "socialism" is a synonym for Communism isn't it?

    1. BristolBachelor Gold badge
      FAIL

      I read somewhere that Medicaid (the public healthcare system that isn't helping him) cost every American tax payer more per person than the UK NHS (which probably would've helped him and lots of others).

      1. Filippo Silver badge

        Re: BristolBachelor

        The USA system tends to let conditions fester until they become emergencies, at which point they can get treated under the public system. This, obviously, costs a lot more to the public system compared to fixing the problem as soon as possible. Chances are that in a proper public system, this condition would have been treated much earlier, at a far smaller cost.

    2. MJI Silver badge

      NHS was agreed by all parties

      Not just the socialists

      1. Naughtyhorse

        agreed by all???

        NHS was agreed by all parties - except the doctors and the tories

        there fixed it for you

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Naughty horse...

          Doctors opposed it on the basis of concerns about how they would get paid. Now, they're very vocal supporters as it gives them a nice high income. For consultants, it gives them a tidy wedge to supplement their private work.

          The Tories opposed it for their own reasons ;-)

          Both were right to question the NHS as a concept, but both did so for the wrong reasons. Now we have an unaffordable, easily exploited system that tries to offer everything to everyone (depending where you are), and fails at most things. Great, we can offer sex changes and IVF, but we can't afford cleaners and A&E waiting times are hours long.

          A wonderful, utopian idea, doomed to fail - a bit like most socialist concepts.

          1. Big-nosed Pengie

            . Now we have arguably the best health care system in the world

            I fixed that for you.

        2. David Neil

          No, the doctors agreed, especially once they were able to ensure they could still carry out private consultations.

      2. Christopher Blackmore
        Headmaster

        The Conservatives fought against the inception of the NHS as hard as they could, as it was going to take away the rights of doctors to get rich.

        1. Robert E A Harvey
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          @ Blackmore

          "NHS...was going to take away the rights of doctors to get rich."

          <baldrick>They are sort of rich now, though, aren't they?</baldrick>

        2. Naughtyhorse

          and have laboured night and day since to dismantle it

    3. Jedit Silver badge

      Not quite, Chris P

      To quote the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: "socialist" means "un-American".

      And if you're a Republican, "liberal" means "socialist".

    4. Naughtyhorse
      Joke

      socialised medicine....

      great for the unfeasibly large testicle, but the death panels??? they are just too high a price to pay :-)

      Ohh me plumbs!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Playmobile?

        pictures or it didn't happen ...

    5. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @Christopher

      Worse.. Even "uncivilized" countries like Iraq used to provide medical services free of charge. Granted; I have no idea how the skills of their doctors fare in comparison with those in Europe or the US, but the fact remains that even there people like him would have been treated.

      Makes you seriously wonder about the difference between "civilized" and "uncivilized"...

  7. Ryan Kendall
    Trollface

    What no free healthcare?

    Sounds more like a competition, Get your balls cut off for only 1 Million Dollars.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    asking the internet for money?

    well, he's got balls, I've give him that ....

    1. CmdrX3

      Ok, that one made me giggle.

    2. TheOtherJola
      Coat

      If The Reg posted a picture

      you could clearly see he's nuts.

      (audible joke transcribed into text - doesn't quite work...)

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        pesky testes

        Through the careful exploitation of image rights, he could make enough dosh to sort out his pesky testes once and for all.

        It's like the old saying goes "if God gives you comical testicles, take profitable photos of them"

  9. Keith 21

    Something to remember...

    Definitely a situation to remember as our politicians rush to privatise and dismantle our NHS...

    1. TRT Silver badge

      I, for one, am proud of the UK's pubic health service.

  10. Jay_x386
    Childcatcher

    damn

    bad, bad, bad,.... I hate you register for making me read this AND click on the link

    1. Slabfondler
      Paris Hilton

      At first I thought it was funny, but having read the article linked here, its really terribly sad. Paris should donate to this cause she's so caring these days.

  11. Wize

    Depending on the amount of beeding...

    ...they might have to remove everything.

    I can feel the draft of every man's knees slamming closed at the same time.

    1. Wize
      Coffee/keyboard

      And the spacehopper link photo...

      ...new keyboard please.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    That guys has some big balls to go asking for help!

    That's all I have.

  13. Shaha Alam

    bollock!

    there, i said it.

  14. Paul Smith

    Wow

    I am so happy that I live in a country where doctors ask "What seems to be the matter?" and not "How will you be paying?"

    1. Annihilator
      Coat

      "What's the matter?"

      I don't think the doc would need to ask that question in this case...

    2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
      Thumb Up

      What country is that?

      Caring doctors, non-cartelized healthcare and affordable treatment not financed by Nonexistent Money From The Future®!

      I want to go there.

  15. Andrew Moore
    Thumb Up

    Ho ho...

    Viz will be suing him for copyright shortly...

  16. fridaynightsmoke
    Coat

    He put his balls in a microwave to get medical weed-

    I saw a similar thing on TV once...

  17. Ol'Peculier
    Happy

    Viz

    Get Viz magazine to sponsor it, create an American Buster Gonads

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Poppa Nut

      Bearded, banjo playing hillbilly with unfeasibly large testicles.

  18. Simon B
    WTF?

    $1M?? wtf?? I find that hard to believe

    1. Robert E A Harvey
      WTF?

      That struck me. It seems awfully bloody expensive. A holiday in Mexico or Uruguay might save a lot of cash.

  19. Code Monkey
    Trollface

    He's taking the piss

    No way do wheelbarrows cost that much!

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