The Peruvian Army were out in force on Sunday looking for a rumoured toddler chav in Cusco

Anyone with a nervous disposition (and testicles) should not read this entry.
After my external hard drive (home to photo's, video and music) failed last night I could sense that today was not going to be good.
I thought we would probably spend the morning trying to get the disk fixed (the second to die on me in a year) but nothing ever works out like that here.
The disk was soon forgotten when I woke up with a familiar pain 'down there'.
We contacted the doctor and soon I was stretched out being rubber gloved again.
It seems that the hernia that wasn't and turned into a muscle strain, is a hernia again.
Not any old hernia but one which has slithered down my pipework and is emerging, grinning no doubt, into my scrotum.
A scrotal hernia - sounds painful doesn't it? it is, bloody painful.
It is too inflamed to be diagnosed with certainty or operated on, so I got an anti-inflamatory injection (hitting a vein first, happens with 1 in a hundred injections apparently) and some more painkillers, I have to go back Friday for some more rubber glove.
I also picked up some antibiotics because my face has swelled up from sinusitis, but that's another, less painful, story - slithering tubes into testicles v. temporary snot related facial disfigurement, no contest.