Toucan Sam pictured before his nose disintegrated and fell off

It has been confirmed that popular mascot Toucan Sam has had reconstructive surgery to repair the nose that he lost after being diagnosed with Syphilis.

Rumors first surfaced about Toucan’s medical condition months ago when the usually sociable Toucan disappeared behind the walls of his mansion.

“Senor Toucan, his nose fall off” his maid Rosalita told friends.

Toucan, who has bragged about having over 5000 sexual partners was often warned by friends to change his lifestyle,

“He never listened to us” said one.  “He’d just laugh and say ‘I’m invincible!’ “

Sam would often bring women onto his yacht which became known as “The Orgy Yacht.”

“He always had a party going on” according to a party goer who was often invited to the yacht.

It was always filled with woman. There would be sometimes a dozen or more in his cabin alone. What can I say, he had an insatiable sexual appetite and apparently lots of stamina.

That all changed when he contracted the virus.

Hiding himself in his mansion, Toucan Sam dealt with skin ulcers, dementia and light sensitivity and finally the dreaded “saddle nose” as the bridge of his nose caved into his flesh and decayed as the syphilis progressed.

Ashamed of his deformed appearance, Sam underwent the torture of primitive nose reconstruction.

His private doctor was called in and a flap of skin was cut from his upper arm and fashioned into the shape of a nose and then grafted into his damaged nasal cavity. His upper arm was then held in place with bandages for about two weeks as the graft attached itself to his face. Then the new nose was severed from the arm.  This drawing

This is what Toucan Sam would have looked like before the arm was severed from his new nose

shows approximately what Sam would have looked like before the new nose was complete.

As to why Toucan Sam would undergo such torture instead of just taking penicillin, medical doctors state that while effective on humans, penicillin is resistant to Toucan physiology.

Despite having tertiary syphilis Toucan Sam seems determined to continue his playboy lifestyle.

“He’s already invited women to his yacht” said a friend.

I don’t know how successful he’s going to be.  Everyone knows he has syphilis and even though he has a new nose it doesn’t quite look right.  You know how the Washington Monument is two colors? That’s what his face looks like now. His nose is whiter than the rest of his face. 

None of this seems to have discouraged Sam who has taken to strutting around town.

“I’m Toucan Sam bitch! And I’m back!”

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