Man With the Largest Testicles, a 132-lb Scrotum, Dies At 49
Category: Health & Physical Fitness
Wesley Warren Jr., who received worldwide notoriety because of his
problems with a scrotum that grew to 132 pounds, died Friday at a Las
Vegas hospital. He was 49.
No
cause of death was officially announced, but Warren's roommate, Joey
Hurtado, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Warren had suffered two
heart attacks recently.
“He was in the hospital for five and a
half weeks,” Hurtado told the paper. “He had infections that I think
were brought on by his diabetes and then he had those heart attacks.”
Hurtado also told the paper he didn't believe that his friend's testicle removal surgery last year was a factor in the death.
When
Warren had the surgery last April, he entered the operating room
weighing 552 pounds.
Thirteen hours later, he was 200 pounds lighter.
Warren said his scrotum first became enlarged in May 2008 when he suffered an injury on his right testicle.
"I woke up the next day and my scrotum was the size of a honeydew melon," he told HuffPost Live in August. "My personal hell was just beginning."
"I woke up the next day and my scrotum was the size of a honeydew melon," he told HuffPost Live in August. "My personal hell was just beginning."
With every passing month, Warren's scrotum
grew 3 pounds or more. And with no health insurance, he had little
opportunity to seek help, until he became internationally known for his
freakish bulge.
To cradle his watermelon-sized sex organ, he wore a hooded sweatshirt as pants, using the hood as a makeshift scrotum sling.
"Even
when I got offers to help, it was hard," he told HuffPost. "My scrotum
was so large I couldn't get on a plane. I was too big to use an airplane
restroom."
Warren's condition first made headlines in October 2011.
He initially sought donations to pay for the estimated $1 million
surgery, but turned down an offer from the "Dr. Oz Show" to pay for the
surgery in exchange for exclusive interview rights.
Some
speculated that Warren's interest in fame was bigger than the misery
caused by his enlarged scrotum, a charge he denied vehemently.
"Who would want to live like this?" Warren said. "I just don't want to die during the operation."
With the help of radio talk show host Howard Stern, Warren finally agreed to see Dr. Joel Gelman, a California urologist who specializes in scrotal lymphedema, a disorder that causes the scrotum to become "extremely large as lymph fluid and tissue accumulates."
With the help of radio talk show host Howard Stern, Warren finally agreed to see Dr. Joel Gelman, a California urologist who specializes in scrotal lymphedema, a disorder that causes the scrotum to become "extremely large as lymph fluid and tissue accumulates."
Although Warren had hoped to find a woman after his scrotum issues were solved, that may not have happened.
Warren admitted to HuffPost that his condition left him with no sex drive and "little or no testosterone."
However, he said that lack of a sex drive may have been a blessing in disguise.
"Imagine if I had desires," Warren said. "There isn't anything I could've done about it. That would be a personal kind of hell."
Source: HuffPost
"Imagine if I had desires," Warren said. "There isn't anything I could've done about it. That would be a personal kind of hell."
Source: HuffPost
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