Man who had his penis replaced told by doctors he could have 'any size he wanted'
A man has shared how he got his penis replaced after living over 40 years without one.
Mo Abad opened up about how the biological change took a toll on his mental health, and how his life changed following the loss.
In a candid sit-down interview with the LADbible Stories YouTube channel, he spoke of how an incident when he was just 6-years-old changed his life, forever.
While having an innocent snow ball fight with friends in the winter months, he recalls 'throwing the last one' before crossing the road, where he was hit by a car and dragged along under the tires for 'about 400 yards'.
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Speaking about how he saw 'red on the road' from the blood, he was rushed to hospital, where the news wasn't great.
Though he was given just 12 hours to live, he would go on to fight his condition and lived in and out of hospital for the next six years.
For the majority of his life, Mo had to make do with a tube where his penis would be and sitting down to pee.
But upon his travels across the UK seeing several specialists, he would hear back from one plastic surgeon at the age of 42.
It turned out that there was a solution - a bionic penis.
What is a bionic penis?
A bionic penis involves a phalloplasty, which is the construction or reconstruction of a penis for both urination and reproductive purposes.
Mo said that he had his operation in November 2020, a £70,000 job which was covered by the NHS through a 'special referral'.
When seeing the plastic surgeon, he was offered the opportunity to choose the size of his new member - a decision which he left to the specialist.
"He said you can have it this size. I said yeah ‘whatever’... I could have said to him I want a ten-incher’," he admitted, adding that he was 'grateful' to get the chance to have a member at all.
How does it work?
While they can come in both inflatable and non-inflatable forms, the procedure itself involves using skin from elsewhere in the body.
It uses skin from either the arm or the thigh, which Mo says is used by rolling it up 'like a Swiss roll' to construct the penis, while an implant is put in which allows you to have sex and erections.
Mo went on, revealing that he has a 'reservoir in his stomach' with saline solution, which is connected to two rods and a valve.
The valve is then squeezed to fill the rods with saline, which then results in an erection. This is located in the testicle, while both rods are in the shaft of the constructed penis.
All in all though, Mo admitted that he finally felt 'like a proper man' after living most of his life without a penis.
Can you father children after a phalloplasty?
Unfortunately, a phalloplasty doesn't allow for reproduction, despite helping to bring on erections, as the liquid used for this is saline solution, and not sperm.
Mo admitted that he could feel it inflating and deflating, and explained that he isn't actively seeking partners at the moment.
However, if he was to find one, he would explain everything to them, with no aspects of his journey left out as he is no longer ashamed of what happened to him all those decades ago.
Topics: NHS, Mental Health, Health
Joshua Nair