26.2.11

The Gallbladder


With the great concern and care due to gallbladder removal surgery patients, the young man's girlfriend gently helped him into bed.

Despite the pain killers and waning effects of recent anesthesia, his girlfriend's hands supporting his back as he lowered his body onto the mattress caused his penis to harden into a full erection. For whatever reason, this struck him as unbearably funny. He began to laugh.

But then it was unbearable. The erection was not only hard on the recent incisions in his abdomen, but it also pulled painfully on the medical tape which held the bandage in place. The laughter only made everything hurt worse, so he tried to stop, but like everyone else who tries to stifle laughing mid-laughing, he was unable to.

The young man eventually found a temporary compromise between laughing and wincing, by laughing for four seconds and wincing for two, laughing for four more seconds and wincing, and so on until he was nearly crying from either pain or laughter, it is hard to say which.
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