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Men getting the snip4/10/2023 ![]() I was astonished when I was finally told the cause.'Ĭolin's symptoms started as niggling, occasional discomfort in one or both testicles every few months 'I've seen countless doctors over the years and not one associated testicular pain with the fact I'd had a vasectomy. But over the intervening years, what started as niggling, occasional discomfort in one or both testicles every few months, has gradually built up to sometimes unbearable levels of pain. Having come to parenthood 'a little late', the couple felt their family was complete and the decision for Colin to have a vasectomy came easily. What's remarkable about Colin's situation is that his vasectomy isn't recent - he had the procedure 22 years ago, at the age of 41 when his son, Christopher, now 24, was 18 months old, and daughter, Suzanna, now 22, was six months. But after the drugs wear off, the pain comes back.' I had no choice but to take ibuprofen for the pain and go to bed. 'My testicles felt really engorged, I thought they might burst out - it was just awful. A few weeks ago, it came on really strongly and lasted two or three days. 'It gets in the way of even the simplest things in life, such as a round of golf or a countryside walk with Marie. 'But the pain is on and off all the time now - it builds up slowly over a couple of days, can last a few days and then subsides again to a low level for anything from a week to a month. 'I've always been a grit-your-teeth kind of person,' says Colin, who lives in Sandhurst, Berkshire. An ache that, until recently, he didn't realise was connected to his operation. The 63-year-old and his wife Marie, 59, have no desire to extend their family beyond their two existing, now grown-up children.īut Colin wants to put an end to the dull, sometimes burning but always painful, ache he has sporadically suffered since surgery. So much so, that he's now steeling himself to have this surgical form of male contraception reversed.īut the reason for this change of heart has nothing to do with recurring pangs for fatherhood. There have been many times when Colin Davis has had cause to regret having a vasectomy. She was shopping today in Aspen Hill, a few hours after the shooting.Colin Davis had a vastectomy 22 years ago ''It's getting scarier,'' said Gina Modesitt, who lives just outside the killing zone in Potomac, Md. The morning passed as all before it: no sniper. The 100 miles that separate Ashland, a suburb of Richmond, from Aspen Hill suddenly seemed insignificant. Thousands of people gave up on even making it to work today. They searched for the sniper who has killed nine - 10 if the bus driver can be linked to the sniper - and critically wounded three with single, terrifyingly accurate shots. Meanwhile, the police shut down all roads into the area. Cooley, who does not even ride the buses much, said he felt ''a tremendous pain.'' Cooley, 60, who used to teach television production. ![]() ''It's awful to say but at first I thought it was good that man was just wounded,'' said Mr. Cooley then flipped on the TV and was transfixed by the bus driver's fight for life. ''When I heard the news this morning, I thought: He's back here. ''Do you know how difficult this has been to comprehend?'' Mr. Instead, they woke up this morning with the words ''gridlock,'' ''police activity,'' and ''another mysterious killing'' blaring from their clock radios. Some people in Maryland had thought the sniper was gone for good. That bullet missed, but within the next 30 hours, the sniper stalked and killed six people in this same suburban area north of downtown Washington, a place full of strip malls, big trees and nice cars.Īfter the initial rampage, the sniper moved to Virginia, steadily progressing south, reaching Ashland, about 100 miles away, on Saturday night. The bus driver, Conrad Johnson, was cut down this morning less than half a mile from the Michaels craft store in nearby Aspen Hill, where the sniper's first bullet was fired on Oct. ''Every time we get some good news, the sniper just takes it away.'' ''Things look good, and then all of a sudden they look bad again,'' said Jacob Ellis, a recording engineer in Silver Spring. Though it is difficult to take a snapshot of a mood or generalize how millions of people in the Washington area feel, if there is one word, it is discouraged.Īnd if there is a second word, it is manipulated. All lulls in the violence have been punctured by a single. The most agonizing part, people say, is having hope extinguished.
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