Hit it with a ruler, now!!!

A truck driver is suing a doctor after he was left with an erection that lasted for eight months and a scrotum the size of a volleyball following penile implant surgery.

Daniel Metzgar, 44, had the surgical procedure in 2009. This week, a medical malpractice lawsuit a heard claims that the surgery had been botched.

The Newark truck driver's attorney, Michael C. Heyden, told a court that everyday tasks - such as riding in his motorbike or collecting his newspaper - became a problem for Mr Metzgar as he was 'stuck in this position'.


The driver had a three-piece inflatable penile implant fitted by surgeon Dr. Thomas J. Desperito.

The urologist fitted inflatable cylinders inside the shaft of the penis, a fluid reservoir under the abdominal wall and a pump inside the scrotum, The New Journal[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]reported.

But attorneys for Dr Desperito, who denies responsibility, claim that occasionally bad medical results can occur without it being anyone's fault.

They suggested the truck driver should have realised something was wrong when his scrotum swelled to the size of a volleyball after the December surgery.

But the 44-year-old did not alert anyone to the problem until April. Colleen D. Shields, acting for the doctor, told the court that her client advised the patient to have the prosthesis removed after he complained of an infection and that the erection wasn’t going down, four months after the implant was fitted.