A ruptured testicle will keep Geelong veteran James Kelly out of action for at least a month, but in the meantime he is trying to see the funny side of the injury.
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Kelly was injured when he landed on his stomach after taking a mark in the third quarter of the Cats' nine-point win over Richmond.
He ranked the pain "up the top" of a scale from one to 10.
"I thought it's OK, I've been hit in the nuts before, it'll go away, but after a little while it didn't go away I sort of thought maybe there was something a bit wrong," he said.
After undergoing an ultrasound at the ground, Kelly was taken to hospital.
He was operated on within hours of arriving.
Kelly said he would not be able to train for a couple of weeks, and would not play for at least a month.
He said the nature of the injury had prompted plenty of jokes from his family, and the public.
"My wife and my sister were the first people to get the phone call, and they were quite amused by the whole thing, once they knew I was OK," he said.
"Once you say you're alright, jokes just come flying... if it happened to someone else I'd be all over them, so I have to cop it on the chin and some of it is quite funny."
The silver lining was the opportunity to spend more time at home with his wife Leanne, who had just given birth to their son Jack, Kelly said.
