AN imperfect penile implant left a truck driver with an erection that wouldn’t deflate ? for eight months.

Daniel Metzgar’s delicate predicament has led to a malpractice lawsuit being heard in a Delaware court.

Wherever the 44-year-old New Jersey truck driver went, his condition got in the way, said Metzgar’s attorney, Michael C. Heyden. Retrieving the morning newspaper became a problem. So was riding his motorcycle. Family events presented embarrassing situations because, as Heyden put it: “Dan is stuck in this position.”

According to the court papers and testimony at New Castle County Superior Court. the initial procedure was done in 2009 by a Wilmington urologist, Dr. Thomas J. Desperito, Delaware Online reported. The surgery involved placing an inflatable penile implant inside the shaft of the penis, a fluid reservoir under the abdominal wall and a pump inside the scrotum.

Metzgar said he had hoped the prosthesis would help his love life with his wife, Donna, where other solutions had failed. Unfortunately, it did just the opposite, making him feel like less of a man.

“I could hardly dance, with an erection poking my partner,” Metzgar told jurors Monday when he took the witness stand. The procedure caused him to shink from much of life, and he took up wearing long baggy sweatpants and a long shirt to hide his situation.

Source: perthnow.com.au