Mark writes:
Tell your tough guy about these other tough guy:
“Baseball pitcher, Roger Clemens still hopes to make his 2007 Yankees debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates this Saturday after an MRI exam showed he had a scar tissue injury in his right groin.” quoted from the Associated Press June 4, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/06/04/clemens-scartissue.html
“Houston Astros outfielder Lance Berkman had minor surgery Thursday to remove scar tissue from his right knee… The scar tissue developed as a result of surgery in November 2004 that repaired Berkman's torn anterior cruciate ligament.” Associated Press report January 26, 2006
Philadelphia Flyer hockey player Mike Rathje left midway in a game on Sep. 18, 2007 complaining of pain in his right groin, believed to be caused by adhesions from a previous surgery to that area. source: The Philadelphia Inquirer 9/19/2007
“Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Jerome McDougle had emergency surgery October 2005 for a hernia… due to adhesions and scar tissue from his previous operation” for a gunshot wound in July 2005. Associated Press October 17, 2005 http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=27092
Maybe your guy would be impressed by the following:
Madonna had a hernia operation in which “Scar tissue was removed and the hernia sewn together… ‘Madonna’s hernia is the result of the weakening of the abdominal wall through having children. Over time, it worsened,’ said an insider.” http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63541
Marilyn Monroe’s autopsy showed there were “marked adhesions throughout her omentum and abdominal wall in the lower portion of the liver where the gall bladder had been removed.” coroner Thomas Noguchi, MD, deputy medical examiner August 13, 1962