{"id":122121,"date":"2021-04-30T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-man-whose-penis-fell-off-is-growing-a-new-one-on-his-arm"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T20:22:19","slug":"a-man-whose-penis-fell-off-is-growing-a-new-one-on-his-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-man-whose-penis-fell-off-is-growing-a-new-one-on-his-arm","title":{"rendered":"A Man Whose Penis Fell Off Is Growing a New One on His Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-man-whose-penis-fell-off-is-growing-a-new-one-on-his-arm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a mechanic from the United Kingdom lost his penis, medical innovators fashioned him a replacement out of his existing tissue \u2014 and it now rests on his left forearm.<\/p>\n<p>45-year-old Malcolm MacDonald suffered from a perineum infection which led to a severe case of sepsis in 2014, which spread to his extremities, turning his fingers and toes black. Then it began to also affect his genitalia. \u201cWhen I saw my penis go black I was beside myself,\u201d MacDonald told <em>The Sun<\/em>. \u201cIt was like a horror film\u2026I knew deep down it was gone and I was going to lose it. Then one day it just dropped off on to the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For two years afterwards, MacDonald says his life \u201cfell apart\u201d, until he was referred to Professor David Ralph, a urologist at University College London Hospital who specializes in penile reconstruction surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a mechanic from the United Kingdom lost his penis, medical innovators fashioned him a replacement out of his existing tissue \u2014 and it now rests on his left forearm. 45-year-old Malcolm MacDonald suffered from a perineum infection which led to a severe case of sepsis in 2014, which spread to his extremities, turning his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}