penises and sugar packets and osmosis

OK I have done some bizarre posts lately regarding body fluids, etc. (someone has to do it dammit) Might as well continue the trend...in the that madness will talk about anything vein...
Here is something I didn't know. If a penis is swollen up and you put sugar on it, it will shrink back down. Apparently it has to do with osmosis. Well who'd a thunk it?
I can't imagine anything more painful than having a very swollen penis but that's what someone had a few months ago in my ER. It was a side effect of treatment they were getting. So to the break room for the sugar packets the nurse went. It worked.
The guy was being admitted. Now the next part of this blog entry goes into the "could you be a bigger idiot" category of giving report to an inpatient nurse.
The report is going along and the nurse comes to the part about the sugar. The receiving nurse exclaims: "Oh no, I don't know if we can take this patient, we are having a real problem with fruit flies up here". Let me pause so you can think that over.................
The receiving nurse tells our ER nurse that they need to talk to their charge nurse about it. Having not heard back, the ER nurse calls and the station takes the patient.
And we write down another entry in the "unbelievable things that are heard and seen in the ER" record book.