FACE BALLS

I'm sorry, but how does a story like this make it into the newspaper? There's people dying out there, so let's write a story about a guy who gets an ultrasound of his testicles, but finds a face in his balls. WHAT? I decided to kick the week off with something extremely silly! Who cares about the Oscars? Just open the front page of the paper, if you want to read about that! This is where the real news is at. I haven't been able to stop laughing for at least an hour now. 

So, it turns out; doctors at a Canadian hospital found a shocking image staring right back at them as they were scanning the testicles of a 45-year-old paraplegic patient. The image of one of the testicles was of a man's face grimaced in agony. Come on! Is this like the Jesus imprint on that towel many moons ago? My favorite thing about the photo above is in the bottom right corner the photo is labeled "Siemens". It's an ultrasound of a testicle and the machine used was from Siemens. You can't just make this stuff up!

  According to Dr. Naji Touma of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, "It was very ghoulish, like a man screaming in pain. His mouth was open and it looked like one eye was gouged out." The photo was taken in 2009 and was sent to the medical journal of "Urology", and was recently published with a headline that read, "The face of testicular pain: A surprising ultrasound finding." Apparently, the residents and staff were amazed to see the outline of a man's face staring up and out of the image with his mouth open as if the face saw the ultrasound scan and was experiencing severe pain and swelling. I have a question, in a world of Photoshop, should people still be surprised to see something out of the ordinary on photo?

The only person not amazed by the finding was the patient, who was just happy that the two-inch tumor was benign. The man had the testicle surgically removed so he could receive a firm diagnosis. Ouch! That takes "a lot of balls" to having anything removed down there! Sorry, sorry! I had to go there! Bottom line is that it's tough to believe that a photo like this can exist in a day of Photoshop. Anything can be manipulated these days, so I am not buying this for one second, though it is truly hysterical!