“They made an event out of it,” says Rowan. Perhaps most memorably, five men once showed up in matching T-shirts with their children’s names printed on the back. A group of guys from Alaska are booked on the schedule, determined to squeeze a guys’ weekend in the Lower 48 out of the procedure. He’s had fathers and sons book appointments together. That’s the approach some of Wilson’s patients have taken as well. “We relaxed and celebrated it instead of it being a day when you lost your manhood,” says Holderness. The quartet did that together too, watching movies and silly YouTube clips until they had to stop because laughing hurt too much. Patients are ordered to rest with frozen peas, or the veggie of their choice, on their groin for 24 hours. He delivered the numbing injections, poked a tiny hole, snipped off a section of the vas deferens, the tubes that transport sperm, and attached stainless steel clips to the cut ends.Įasy-peasy, which is exactly what comes next.
DR SNIP SEATTLE PROFESSIONAL
Once inside, Parnell turned more professional for the quickie procedure. With Holderness' crew, he brandished a pair of hedge clippers and revved an electric drill outside the exam room, where each man waited his turn individually. “I have been known to fire up a chainsaw,” he admits. To add even more fun to the procedure, Parnell sometimes busts out props, giving voice to the prankster lurking inside the physician. “We joke that women don’t call each other up and say, ‘Let’s go for Pap smears together,’” says Rowan. While women band together for pampering - think yoga retreats and spa days - they don’t tend to head to the doctor in tandem. Charles Wilson, the clinic’s founder, recently notched his 20,000th vasectomy. The joint approach to medical procedures appears to be unique to men, says Kathy Rowan, office manager for The Vasectomy Clinic in Seattle, which, true to its name, does that procedure exclusively.
It makes it a little more light-hearted.” “They find it easier if there’s some co-misery. “A lot of men can’t stand the thought of having their boys cut on,” says Parnell. It helps ease the anxiety about the procedure, which involves three injections to the scrotum. It's unclear how many men across the country go for a group-snip, but Parnell says that up to 20 percent of his vasectomy patients book their appointment with at least one other person. Vasectomy is considered permanent, though it can be reversed about 50 percent of the time, according to the American Urological Association. A word to the wise: Don’t make the snip until you’re certain your seed-sowing days are done. “Strength in numbers,” says Holderness.Ībout half a million vasectomies are performed in the U.S. Too chicken to make an appointment separately, they clung to each other for moral support. The idea of a group snip-and-clip materialized after Holderness and Fehling were told by their wives: No. Holderness, a local NBC anchor at WNCN, had the, er, balls to break the news of his vasectomy in the holiday video where he, his wife and two kids in red and green-striped pajamas rapped about their 2013 exploits.
Jerome Parnell’s urology clinic in Raleigh, N.C., with pals Jake Fehling, David Sonntag and Derrick Minor. In mid-December, Holderness showed up at Dr.
Penn Holderness, who recently scored viral video fame with his family's "Christmas Jammies" rap, went with four friends he dubbed Team Vasectomy. Turns out having a pal to share the pain of a vasectomy isn't so unusual, say doctors. It may be the ultimate in male bonding: a pact between male friends to bid farewell to their fertility en masse.
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