Three weeks before I graduated from college I was playing with myself in the shower (my favorite part of bathing) and noticed a small lump at the base of my ball sack. I hadn't noticed it before but when it started getting bigger I got concerned. It wasn't painful unless you squeezed it and it didn't move around like my nuts did.
After another week or so of denial I told my mother about it. She insisted that I go see a doctor, so I agreed but only if she did not go along. I was not going to have her in the exam room when the doctor was feeling around my nuts.
The doctor examined my scrotum, pinched the lump and made it sore, and then said it was a cyst. He told me it was probably benign but because it was growing he wanted it removed. I lived in a small town but there was a regional hospital there and a surgeon on staff agreed to do the procedure.
I decided to postpone the surgery until after exams and graduation, so six weeks passed before the surgery was scheduled. One week prior to the procedure I got a call from the doctor's office. The scheduler explained that the surgical nurse in charge would be calling me in the next day or two to explain what would happen when I got to the hospital. The nurse's name was Rick Jackson.
All of a sudden I froze and stopped listening because I recognized that name. Rick Jackson was a football star when my sister was in high school. They dated his senior year and then broke up after he went to college. But, I got to spend a lot of time around Rick because my folks would not let my sister (who was 15 at the time) go out on dates alone with a senior. He was four years older than me but one hell of a football player and all the guys in my grade wanted to be as handsome, hung, and hairy as Rick Jackson.
Rick was a gifted athlete and received a football scholarship to a small state college. He only played a couple of years and had to drop out of the program with a knee injury. He finished an associate's degree and entered nursing school after that. I knew he was a registered nurse at the hospital but I didn't know he worked in surgery.
I had seen Rick a few times around town usually riding his mountain bike or running. He was still one of the hottest guys around and in amazing physical condition. When anyone saw him out running all sweaty with his shirt off, his hairy muscled chest made them stop and stare. I wasn't sure he would remember who I was, but two days before the surgery I found out.
My cell phone rang at 8pm on Sunday night and I didn't recognize the number but answered it anyway.
"Hey Luke, this is Rick Jackson - do you remember me? I used to date your sister in high school," his voice was strong and masculine just as I remembered it.
I spoke up when I heard it was him, "Yeah Rick, Doc said you were going to call," I tried to sound cool but I had butterflies in my stomach just talking to him.
"Luke, I'm going to be in charge of your care before and during your procedure. We have three protocols that I have to complete prior to the surgery and I have a small problem", he said. All of a sudden I calmed down and was ready to listen.
"What kind of problem?" I asked.
"Well, Dr. Baker wants to do your procedure first thing on Tuesday morning and that means you would have to be at the hospital at 5:30am and go into surgery at 6:30am. There is no way in hell I can do all three protocols that he ordered in one hour," he said. Rick paused and waited for me to speak but I didn't know what to say.
"Uh, so do we need to postpone the surgery?" I asked directly.
"Well, there are two options that I can see," he continued, "One is that we move your surgery to the last one of the day which will give me plenty of time to get all the prep work done on you, but the downside is that you can't eat or drink all day which will suck for you. Plus, if there are any emergency surgeries you might get bumped to Wednesday".
"Or," he continued quickly, "Another option would be for you to come to my place tomorrow evening and we can do most of the prep work here, and then do one last thing at the hospital right before the surgery." He finished and sounded like that would be his preference but he was being careful not to influence the decision.
"Well, I can come over to your place if that works better, if you don't mind having to work at home," I said suddenly realizing I had no idea what he was going to do to me.
"Uh, by the way what kind of prep work are you talking about?" I asked, totally clueless about what he was going to do.
"Well, one of the protocols that I'm sure you already expected is shaving your pubic hair, scrotum and groin area. I assumed you knew that was going to be required?" He said it like that information should have already been explained by my family practice doctor.
"No, nobody mentioned that, but I guess it makes sense." I said weakly as the energy fell out of my voice. I had not even thought about that aspect of this surgery but damn, I did not want to have my bush and nuts all shaved, I liked having a hairy crotch, it made me feel manly and masculine. That was something that a former high school nerd like me needed.
"Yeah, it's definitely required in a procedure like this one but I shave dudes all the time, appendix, hernia, vasectomies, it's no big deal. Your bush will all grow back in a few months," he explained, as if it were routine.
I wondered what other indignities would be required and spoke up.
"Is that all that needs to be done?" I asked.
"Well - No, there are a couple of other things we will need to take care of, but they take a little more time and explanation and I would rather wait and go through it all when you get here tomorrow," he said reassuringly, "One of them will kind of suck but the other one you might actually enjoy," he said with a slight chuckle.
Kind of suck, I thought, does that mean it sucks for him or sucks for me? I realized this was going to take up his whole evening and that he was doing it as a favor to me. I was certainly glad Rick was my nurse and not some big fat smelly woman lathering up my nuts with a razor in her chubby little hand.
"So, Luke, if you want to bring an overnight bag with the clothes you are going to wear home from the hospital you can just spend the night at my place and I will take you to the hospital to get checked in Tuesday morning. I have to be at work at 5am so that will give your Mom a little extra time before she needs to be there," he continued. "You will need to bring some loose fitting shorts for the ride home from the hospital. Your nuts are probably going to hurt like hell when this is over and you will have a bandage that will make your crotch look like a porn star."
"Oh, Okay," I said with the image of all that was about to happen getting more and more real.
"Hey Rick," I said, "would you mind calling my Mom and explaining all of this to her. She is going to insist on talking to you anyway and it will keep me from having to listen to her ask fifty questions I can't answer."
"Yeah, sure no problem," he said, "I like your mom, I haven't talked to her in a long time. Hey, I get off work around five tomorrow, but need to make a couple of stops so why don't you plan on getting here around 6pm. I'll text you the address."
"Okay great," I said, "and uh, Rick, I really appreciate that you are doing this for me."
"Hey no problem," he said, "we need to catch up anyway." We hung up and I got a little nervous realizing I would be butt naked in front of Rick Jackson the Quarterback, the stud of high school, now a nurse shaving my cock and balls. It all messed with my head like it was some twisted reality.
On Monday I was anxious as hell and needed to stay busy so I did a few things around the house including vacuuming and laundry. I'm sure my Mom would have a coronary when she saw I had actually done all those things without being nagged about it.
In the afternoon I mowed the grass and was sweaty so around 4pm I jumped in the shower and felt the cyst in my nut sack to be sure it was still there. When I got out and dried off I looked at my hairy crotch in the mirror and wondered how it would look shaved off, all bald and smooth. How would it feel with no hair, maybe I would keep it shaved for a while. Although I was a late bloomer, by the time I turned sixteen I had a lot of dense pubic hair and a thick 7" cock. Now that I was twenty-one I had a good amount of hair around my navel too. Looking in the mirror at my dick made it start swelling and soon it was standing at attention. I was thinking about jacking off and heard my phone ring.
It was my Mom making sure I was ready to go and she asked if I had packed my bag for the hospital. I half listened and let my mind wander to how Rick would shave my pubic hair; would he use electric clippers or a razor or maybe both? Finally my Mom stopped talking and I told her to stop stressing about it and said goodbye. I packed everything I needed and threw it in my pickup. I drove around town for a while killing time and then headed to Rick's apartment building.
I arrived about fifteen minutes early and sat in my car trying to calm down a little. I was as nervous as a prom date.