Does George's Jimmy Have Herpes?

Jimmy Lube How I Learned I Had Herpes

But I know it will. It does every time he does it. Every time he puts on that rubber glove, lubes himself up with K-Y and sticks his forefinger up my butt. I try to relax, but the thought of a finger up my butt makes me uncomfortable. Especially the finger of a fiftysomething man.

"George," says the doctor, "relax. If you don't, I won't be able to get up there."

I try to relax my asshole enough so that he can stick his finger up there. He tries to get in there a couple of times, and finally has to use some more lube.

"Ouch!" I exclaim. "That fucking hurts!"

"Sorry," Dr. Hurle mumbles, and starts to poke his finger around the inside of my small intestines. I moan in agony, and swear at him pretty loudly.

"I'm almost done," he says, and then feels around for my prostate. Just like I knew he would. He finds it, and starts to touch it. I scream loud, and he asks me if it hurts. I tell him yes. He tells me it's inflamed, something I already figured, and then he removes his finger. Slowly. As he pulls it out, I feel like I am having a bowel movement right in front of him. I feel humiliated.

"Here's something to wipe up with," says Dr. Hurle, as he hands me a wad of tissue. I wipe myself and hand him back the wad. He looks at it, and me, and then throws it into a garbage can with the "biohazard" logo on it.

"Well, George," starts Dr. Hurle, and I know what he's gonna say next. He's gonna tell me I have an enlarged prostate, and to quit drinking so much, and fuck more often. "You have an enlarged prostate. You should really consider consuming less alcohol, and you should strive for an active sexual life."

I just look at him. He tells me the same thing every time. And every time I say I'll do what he says, but then, don't. I mean, hell, less drinking, more sex? I wish. If I was having all that sex that he wanted me to have, I don't think I'd drink so much. But since at that time in my life I wasn't having a lot of sex, with other people anyway, I drank a lot. It was kind of like the chicken and egg. Cause versus symptom. My penis versus a beer.

I start to pull up my pants, and then remember I forgot to ask Dr. Hurle about one thing.

"Umm," I stutter, "Dr. Hurle? Can you look at my, um, err, penis? There may be something wrong with it." There was, but I didn't want to tell him. There was something really wrong. It was all red and sore, and was a bit bloody up near the head. But you really couldn't see it when it was shrunk up in fear from a finger up the ass.

"What seems to be the problem?" says Dr. Hurle, and I see in his eyes from behind his wire-frame glasses that he really doesn't want to play with my penis today.

"I don't know, you should look at it. I don't know what's wrong with it. It just hurts."

Dr. Hurle sighs, and then begins to examine my pecker. At first he feels my testicles, weighs them in his hands or something. Then he pulls on the head of my penis, and he sees the sore on the top of the shaft.

"Holy cow!" Dr. Hurle exclaims. He's old-fashioned like that.

"What?"

"George. You have herpes. And from what I can tell, this is a very severe case."

I start to swallow quickly, and get very nervous. He releases my penis and tells me to pull up my pants.

"George, I have never seen a case of herpes like this," says Dr. Hurle. "I want you to go see a specialist. Dr. Rector. He's a urologist. He'll know what to do."

"That's it?" I say to him, as he starts to leave the room.

"Yes. Go see Dr. Rector. I'll give the information to the nurse up front. I'm so sorry for you. Remember, don't drink so much, and have a more active sex life."

I look at him as he says that, and he quickly excuses himself and tells me to have a nice day.

That night at home, I'm eating dinner with my mom and stepdad Nick.

"So George, what did Dr. Hurle have to say today at your physical?" my mom asks me, as I eat my hamburger on a roll with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise.

"That I'm totally fine," I lie to her.

"How's your prostate? Still enlarged?" she asks. I hate when my mom asks about my prostate.

"Yeah, still enlarged, and, umm, there is something else."

My mom gets that look of panic in her eyes. Like when I fell off my tricycle when I was three. Or when I took my guitar onstage, and hit some jerk in the face who kept undoing my shoelaces.

"What? What's wrong?" she demanded. And I could see she was almost near tears. Moms.

"Nothing," I say, "nothing really, only I have, umm, errr..."

"What George?" says Nick, trying to make me say it so my mom doesn't have a heart attack.

"Well," I begin, "Dr. Hurle says I have herpes."

Suddenly my mom is in tears. And Nick is staring at me, in shock. I don't know what to say, so I just try to comfort them both.

"It's no big deal. It's only herpes. It'll go away. Really."

My mom stops sobbing enough to say, "My son has herpes. I have a child with herpes. My God."

"George, what did Dr. Hurle say?" asks Nick, trying to be logical, sensible and a know-it-all, as usual.

"Well," I start, "he says I have a terrible case of herpes, and to go see Dr. Rector."

"My son has herpes," sobs my mom. "Now he'll have to advertise in the back of the Voice, 'SWM with Herpes seeks SWF.'"

I guess herpes was a big deal back then.

I try to comfort her and tell her it's nothing, but she won't listen to me. Finally Nick calms her down and says that we should wait to hear what Dr. Rector has to say. I feel so sick I can't finish my hamburger.

A week later I'm in Dr. Rector's office, looking through magazines like Modern Maturity and Highlights. I figure he sees all sizes of penises.

"Mr. Tabb," says a cute blonde nurse, "the doctor will see you now."

I go into a little room and wait around for about 10 minutes with nothing to read. I wish I had taken Highlights in with me. Goofus and Gallant really crack me up.

Finally Dr. Rector strolls in, and we shake hands. I wish I didn't, seeing that he was a urologist and all, and I know where his hands have been.

He tells me to drop my pants and starts to examine my penis with some magnifying glasses he has on. He tugs at it, twists it and I feel blood begin to rush down there. I try to think of sports or something. I don't like getting erections with fiftysomething men.

"Well, George," he begins, "Dr. Hurle sent you over here with a case of herpes, and it looks like that is what you have."

I tell him I figured as much, and what should I do now? He looks at my penis some more, and I begin to think he likes looking at it a bit too much, so I yank it away from him and pull up my pants.

"George, while you're here, I might as well check out your prostate," says Dr. Rector, probably upset that I pulled up my pants so quick.

"No way, Jose," I say to him. "Dr. Hurle checked it out last week and it's enlarged, as usual. Sorry, but my ass just isn't up to it."

"Okay, George," he says, all doctorly and stuff, "if that's the way you feel." I tell him it is.

"Well," says Dr. Rector, "you have a severe case of herpes. There is not much I can do. I think you should see a specialist."

I tell him I thought he was the specialist.

"No," he says, laughing, "I'm not a specialist in herpes. You should go see a dermatologist. Do you have one, or should I recommend one?" he asks.

I tell him I have one. And I do. The one my mom and Nick see. Dr. Rose. A really nice guy, who, like my other doctors, is also on the Upper East Side. Dr. Rose treats all the stars. Like Woody Allen, all those fancy, tall, no-breasted models. He even treated Jackie O. I saw her once when I was up there getting my zits popped by a large Swedish woman named Helga.

"Okay then, George," says Dr. Rector, "then good luck to you. And are you sure you don't want me to just feel your prostate to make sure it's okay?"

I run out of there as fast as I can.

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Later that night, as I'm lying in bed watching Star Trek and thinking about how I'd love to boff Yeoman Rand, but what if I gave her herpes, and did they have a cure for it in the 24th century, my mom walks into my room.

"You'll be okay," my mom says, more to herself than to me. "You are my son and I love you," she says, and with that, kisses me on the forehead and leaves the room. I want to die. Right then and there. That, or run away and join the circus, and never, ever, come home.

A few days later I'm in the office of Dr. Rose, staring at some supermodel from across the room. I pretend to read Esquire, New York or some such crap, but really am peeking over the top of the damn thing at the brunette across the room. She is beautiful. Her legs are really long, and she's wearing a short skirt. She has nice-sized breasts for a supermodel, and really pretty blue eyes. I feel myself starting to get hard, and it hurts. Damn herpes.

I continue to pretend to read the magazine some more while I stare at the model. I start to wonder what's wrong with her. Maybe she has a cyst. Maybe a pimple. But where? I imagine it is on her breast, or near her vagina. How'd I'd love to be Dr. Rose, and get to pop the damn thing. Wow. I start to think maybe punk rock wasn't the best career choice.

"Mr. Tabb," says the middle-aged nurse with a heavy Queens accent, "Dr. Rose will see you now."

I follow her to a small room and sit on a table covered with paper. As usual. I wait about 10 minutes, and finally Dr. Rose walks into the room. He has a big smile on his face, and I start to feel okay. I like this guy.

"How's your mom? Nick? Becky, Nick's mom?" asks Dr. Rose. I tell him everyone is okay and thanks for asking.

"And how are you, George?" he asks. I look at him, with his boyish good looks and gentle smile, and suddenly get very, very jealous. Right after me he was gonna see that model, and I know, I know he was gonna get to take her skirt off. Damn him.

"I'm okay," I begin, "but not really."

I explain that both the doctors said I have herpes, and my mom is very upset, and so is Nick, and now I have it and I'm never ever gonna find a girlfriend and I'm going to die not ever having sex again and...

"It's okay, George, it's okay," said Dr. Rose, as he rested his hand upon my shoulder. "Just relax. I'll take a look at it, and we'll see what we can do. Don't worry."

I thanked him for being so nice and then he told me to pull down my pants, so I did. Then he said the underwear, too.

So I lie on my back with my pants pulled down around my knees, and I feel the cold paper against the back of my legs and my ass. Dr. Rose starts to fiddle with my penis, looking at it from all angles. He puts on a pair of magnifying glasses over his regular glasses, and looks at the sore. It's all red and bloody and stuff, and he just keeps looking at it.

"I'm doomed, right?" I ask him, knowing he is going to tell me that this is the worst case he has ever seen, that he wants to send me to Geneva as a lab rat so I can be written up in medical journals coast to coast.

"Hmmm," says Dr. Rose. That's all.

"What?" I say.

"Hmmm," he says again.

I start to panic. It's worse than a trip to Geneva. I'm going to die. I have herpes type alpha-beta. The deadly kind. The kind they haven't discovered yet. The kind that makes your penis fall right off as you're urinating. I could see myself fishing around the toilet, trying to retrieve my dick and reattach the damn thing. I know I wouldn't be able to, and I'd have to live my short time left without one. I'd never be able to change in the gym again, in the men's locker room, anyway. I'd never get an erection again. My right hand would miss my penis so much it would fall off. Hell, I'd have to sit down while I peed. Life was not fair.

"Hmmm," says Dr. Rose again, stirring me out of my paranoid but true thoughts.

"What's wrong with me? Am I going to die?" I ask him.

Dr. Rose turns my penis over a couple of more times, and then tells me to pull up my pants. I do.

"Well, George," says Dr. Rose, "I have something to tell you."

"Yes, Dr. Rose?" I say, with my voice quivering. This was it. He was gonna tell me when it would fall off, and how long I had to live.

"George," he began, as my heart raced like crazy, "first of all, you don't have herpes."

I let out a big breath of air. I didn't have herpes. I was saved.

"But," continued Dr. Rose, and my heart leapt to my throat. "But," he repeated, "you do have to use a lubricant when you masturbate. If you don't, this will keep happening."

And with that he patted me on the shoulder and began to walk out of the room.

"That's it? I'm okay? My penis isn't going to fall off? I'm not going to die? I don't have penis cancer?" I couldn't believe it.

"No," laughed Dr. Rose, "you'll be just fine."

But I knew I wasn't. How was I ever going to explain this to my mom? I think I would rather have had herpes.

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