Here are some basic facts:

  • method was penile inversion
  • I opted for full-depth rather than a vulvoplasty
  • surgery took 3 hours, though recovery took another hour
  • I went under general anaesthesia and had to be intubated and put on a ventilator
  • I’m currently admitted in the hospital and bed bound, discharge is scheduled for Friday
  • so far pain is between 1 and 3 for me, most of the time it’s between a 0 and 1.

Ask me anything!

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    my hospital is very pushy with the chaplain, but there was a way for me to kinda opt out by disallowing the staff from putting my surgery info on a whiteboard where the chaplain goes to find patients to prey on. This also meant my spouse wouldn’t get updates from that same board, but we agreed it was worth it to avoid the chaplain, lol

    sorry you had to deal with that, I think there is a lot of transphobia still and it’s weird to me that chaplains are pushed so hard with gender-affirming surgeries 😬

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      it’s weird to me that chaplains are pushed so hard with gender-affirming surgeries

      It’s weird that chaplains are pushed so hard, period. This has been driving me nuts in clinicals - they’ll just drop into a patient’s room completely unsolicited and start asking religious shit. Like… dude, did that patient request a chaplain? No? Then get the fuck out! I can see the value in having a chaplain available to patients who want one, but until that request is made, stay in your damn office!

      • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I actually opted out so the chaplain couldn’t find me and somehow they still ended up dropping by during my recovery. Luckily this chaplain was pretty chill, it could have been a lot worse - but it was still a stressful event for me and against my explicit wishes and choices.

        I wonder - what do you think the purpose of a chaplain is - all of this has made me think more about chaplains and their role. I tend to be cynical and think the worst, that being that chaplains are basically there to try to convert people when they are vulnerable (after a surgery can be a traumatic time, and a significant number of religious conversions occur after a trauma). There is also the opportunity to convert before death, so that might be playing a role too. But I need to actually read up on the history and context, maybe my cynicism is misplaced here.