A male patient just back from exploratory surgery is lying heavily sedated when a young student nurse comes in to give him a partial bed bath.
He struggles to speak to her,"Nurse,are my testicles black?"
"I don't know",replied the nurse"I'm just here to give you a wash"
Again he struggles with the oxygen mask to ask"But are my testicles black?"
Concerned that he may elevate his vital signs she decides to look,she peers at his testicles and gently lifts them and rolls them in her hand,examing them thoroughly.
"no,they are not black",she says "they appear normal".
He removes his oxygen mas