You're better off than I am, Teresa. I think you are, anyway.

I read the thread title as "If the erection lasts over 4 years..."

The images that called to mind were, well, I could picture a job as a hat rack, or as a pump handle, or as a light switch. Especially if the afflicted died in the meantime.

"Yup, that's Hank, Martha. Leastways, all of him that was important there at the end. Didn't even have to have it stuffed. Makes a nice lamp for the end table, don't you think?"