And find it a bit tragic. I, too, am a victim of a botched circumcision (the rabbi accidentally poked a second hole but it's been deemed surgically unneccesary to repair, just a bleed), but I am not complaining. My parents made the choice for me, and I appreciate it. I live with the minor scab.
I did that for my son, and I chose a rabbi that was the most experienced of all the rabbis locally (there are 3 mohels serving in my area) and he did a superb job. Explained the whole thing - babies do not have nerves in their penis until they are at least two weeks old, and my son cried, but not from the shock of the circumcision, but the equipment used is very cold (it's all metal, and you wouldn't want to stick that thing when it's cold on your body), but was immediately calmed by a drop or two of wine after the blessings. Rabbi also said Neosporin for the first three days will heal the scar, and boy it did - in three days it was all done.
My guess is the rabbi in the OP stuck the penis incorrectly in this device:
And chopped it off. You're only supposed to expose the foreskin, not the penis.
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