A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose, still heavily sedated from a difficult four hour surgical procedure.



A young student nurse appears to give him a partial sponge bath.

”Nurse", he mumbles, from behind the mask. "Are my t#sticles black?"

Embarrassed the young nurse replies "I don't know Sir, I'm only here to wash your upper body".

He struggles to ask again, “Nurse, are my t#sticles black?"

Concerned that he may split his sutures from worry about his t#sticles, she overcomes her embarrassment and sheepishly pulls back the covers.

She raises his gown, holds his p#nis in one hand and his t#sticles in the other, lifting and moving them around.
Then, she takes a close look and says, "There's nothing wrong with them Sir !!"
The man pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her and says very slowly, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful, but listen very, very closely......
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"A r e - m y - t e s t - r e s u l t s - b a c k?"