A man in Berlin, Germany who says he’s been suffering from a “potentially life-threatening” erection over the past two weeks thanked kind patrons for contributing to his GoFundMe page over the weekend — but he says still needs to raise money for rehab and travel expenses after his dick swelling goes down.
via NYDN:
The native Welshman, Danny Polaris, attributed his problem to a condition called Priapism on social media.
“I was nervous at first about sharing my story about my Priapism, but I’m happy I have, then, so I can spread awareness across the world about this agonizingly painful and sometimes terrifying condition,” Polaris said in a video posted on Instagram.
The crooner’s website describes him as a “performance artist” specializing in jazz and cabaret. He appears to be recuperating in a hospital in the hipster Kreuzberg district of the German capital.
According to Polaris, his condition was brought on by experimenting with an alternate version of a drug meant to treat erectile dysfunction.
“How did it happen, everyone asks,” he wrote on Instagram last week when the treatments were underway. “Short answer: bad reaction to new kind of Viagra.”
Polaris’ GoFundMe page collected just over $700 over the weekend.
“I’ve had a bunch of painful surgical procedures and been at a 10 on the pain scale,” he wrote last week. “Often crying from fear and pain. I may never have an erection again. It’s complicated and the doctors don’t really know what will happen. I’m being brave. But I need your help.”
The GoFundMe page, set up by two friends of Poalris, describe a harrowing ordeal that they say is becoming an increasing risk.
“Some days he’s been in so much pain, that he has blacked out / fallen unconscious, even with strong pain relief,” the fundraising page claims.
If you’ve ever been tempted to try those Viagra-like pills you see at the gas station or novelty stores — let this be your warning. Don’t.
