My husband had a consult with a urologist today for a vasectomy (surgery date is scheduled for Aug 7th!!!!!). You gals here helped me determine that my husband is intact (yep, I'm that naieve, didn't know if he was circ'd or not because he's the only guy I've ever been with 
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I was on guard for the dr to bring up circ'ing him, in fact I had already come to the conclusion (although had not discussed it with hubby) that if this dr mentioned circ'ing him, we would find a different urologist. It's not that I thought the dr might circ him without our consent during the vasectomy, it's just that I don't want to work with a dr who would bring up a purely elective procedure for a man who's never had a problem with his foreskin!
(although, there was the argumentative/confrontational side of me that almost WANTED the dr to bring it up so I could argue it with him, I've argued vaccines with immunologists, I've argued breastfeeding with gastroenterologists, I'd like the opportunity to argue circumcision with a urologist!)
Anyway, he didn't mention a thing, just talked to us about the procedure, answered our questions, and that was that!
There's still a huge side of me that wants to have a circumcision discussion with him, maybe at hubby's post-op follow up I'll bring it up, I"m trying to formulate how I'd broach it...something like "Thank you for not mentioning anything to us about circumcision, we're against it and chose to leave our sons intact, I was wondering what your take is on it."
).I was on guard for the dr to bring up circ'ing him, in fact I had already come to the conclusion (although had not discussed it with hubby) that if this dr mentioned circ'ing him, we would find a different urologist. It's not that I thought the dr might circ him without our consent during the vasectomy, it's just that I don't want to work with a dr who would bring up a purely elective procedure for a man who's never had a problem with his foreskin!
(although, there was the argumentative/confrontational side of me that almost WANTED the dr to bring it up so I could argue it with him, I've argued vaccines with immunologists, I've argued breastfeeding with gastroenterologists, I'd like the opportunity to argue circumcision with a urologist!)
Anyway, he didn't mention a thing, just talked to us about the procedure, answered our questions, and that was that!
There's still a huge side of me that wants to have a circumcision discussion with him, maybe at hubby's post-op follow up I'll bring it up, I"m trying to formulate how I'd broach it...something like "Thank you for not mentioning anything to us about circumcision, we're against it and chose to leave our sons intact, I was wondering what your take is on it."
about elderly men that he treats who have terrible infections, blah blah blah, and for him to say "since I'll be down in that area anyway, you want me to take care of that for you?"
