Oh what a beautiful morning 🎶 Oh what a beautiful day 🎶 Stent removed also the catheter 🎶 Everything's going my way 🎶
The lumpy cucumber of discomfort and the string Bean of irrigation are gone. The relief is so significant all I can do is sing songs of joy and elation to the world around me.
YIPPEE
I'm most likely going to brassard at the end of this year and I was wondering
I did get perineum electrolysis done. 4 appointments. Last one around a month prior (maybe to close) only took four hours to clear the area for me as I'm naturally quite hairless.
Walking into the room was intimidating. The reality of what I was doing really hit home. But I was calm. I was emotionally ready for it. The crusifiction-like surgical bed was something else. You put both arms out to either side legs into thier stirrups. I bore my own cross that day, that's for sure. Hehe
The pain is easy to manage. The day of surgery was like a 7-8 / 10. Once you get a handle on the med's effects, you can get it down to 1-3 most of the days, 5-6 is normal first in the morning. BUT that's me. Everyone experiences it differently.
Going to Brassard in the near future (I created my file at GRS but I'm not 18 and it hasn't been 12 months since I've had HRT yet, so I'm gonna guess I'll get probs surgery early-mid 2021) and I've got a couple questions?
1: Are you satisfied with how your vagina looks so far?
2: How bad is the vomiting after the surgery?
3: How has the staff been?
It does look like a vagina but with some significant scars. You're welcome to ask me how it looks just before it's your turn. From all accounts it looks good and will likely heal up cute and tidy.
My surgery was at noon. I was drinking lot of water (just in little sips) throughout that first evening. Come midnight they gave me some oxycodone and within a few mins i had to barf the whole contents of my stomach. That was the only time I got sick or even felt sick. Afterwards I felt fine and slept most of the first night away. Maybe around 5am day 1 I woke and was in a lot of pain. My room mate was blabbing away about her kink life style and it was the last thing I needed to hear. That was the peak of my pain level the whole experience.
The staff are absolutely wonderful. I've been trying to learn all their names so as they come and go and return I can happily greet them and thank them for everything they do.
Thanks for your answers 😄 I feel less scared now!
Nothing to be scared of at all sweetie.
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Once you have a referral and have submitted all the paperwork, it's 15 weeks to process your file, then a few weeks to get MSP funding approval (I'm from BC) then 5 weeks to get the surgical date notice, surgery ( for me) was 14 weeks after that. In other words, not immediately.
So about 5-9 months from referral?
Basically yes. The whole clinic shuts down for vacation from Dec 17th(ish) to Jan 15th(ish) and again July 17th(ish) to Aug 15th(ish). So add the lost month(s) to your estimates.
I finally submitted all necessary paperwork March 1st 2019 and had my surgery Jan 15th. = 10.5 months. I have an old Post here where I listed my whole submission timeline.
Hey i had a dumb question do they put you down under for the surgery or are you pretty much awake the whole time just wanna ask as im going for mine in less than 6 days and i have been wondering that myself
On your surgical date form, it says "regional" or "general". I had regional.
After sitting on the surgical table, they First gave me some pills. Then they made me hug a pillow and gave me an epidural. This freezes the entire lower half of your body. The iv is put in as well. I'm not sure if they added anything to that but while I was waiting for my legs to feel warm and tingly, I passed out apparently. Next thing I know I was waking up in the recovery room. There they do an ice test to see if you have regained feeling in your legs. It took two hours for me. Then you are moved to your hospital room.
See.. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
It said regional in my forms so hopefully i fall asleep too cause yeah i would wanna be awake for it :p and im always quite shy to ask any questions cause i feel my questions are always dumb :p but thanks for the insight it did put my mind at ease
Well you ask me everything you can think of then. I'll Try to give you as much detail as I can.
Okies :) on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard was it to start walking again and how much did it hurt at first
2-3/10 They make you stand up 16 hours after your surgery. It's very short. Just up then back down into bed. They guide you on how to scoot over to the edge by lifting yourself by the head and heels.
Next morning, aka day one, they get you out of bed again to walk one lap around the nurses station. They assist you, you hold the iv tree.
Later after naps and could and drugs etc, you can try again and walk further.
Later in the evening you can try again. Day two, more of the same. Walk around unassisted. As big as the surgery is, you are actually able to recover quite quick
Hooray thanks for putting my mind at ease for what i am to inspect :)
have you been in the hospital this whole time?
No.
I arrived the 13th. Stayed at the assigned hotel for two nights.
Arrived at hospital the morning of the 15th. Surgery at noon. Then moved to hospital bed that afternoon. This is called day zero.
Days one and two are in the hospital.
Day three you are moved to the recovery house which is next door but attached by a glass hallway.
Days 3-7 are spent learning to care for your surgical site.
Head home the morning of day 8. (For me, the 23rd)
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