I'm envious and hoping your experience is all you hope it will be - at the same time.

I have difficulty imagining how you must feel - and how you'll manage getting through the next few months - as the time approaches and your anticipation mounts.

Be well,
Annette

I was in Bangkok August 15 of 2007 for SRS. Please listen to what I am telling you and yes, I am not even trying to be tactful. It is for your own damn good!

When I went in there, they were not accepting people who were obese, so if you are over about 190 lbs, check that with them. While you still have your gonies is the easiest time to lose excess weight, because when your running on pure Estrogen, it will be a bitch to do. I must also caution you to never ever, never ever, never ever neglect your dilations. I got really sick and stopped doing them and now I have a hard time getting something the size of a tootsy roll up there.

I was 60 when I had it and it was a good solid year before I was without pain. Don't smoke or drink a damn thing, got it?

I was amazed that the bunch I was with smoked like crazy and drank the hard stuff before and after surgery. I could not handle it.

HYGENE!

Think about it, now you have gone and purposely let someone split you almost in two. You have this open wound about 6" long in your crotch. So, live and breathe clean. When you do #2 make sure you wipe away from your Vagina. It is something girls learn early, but I did not know, and I wound up with ecoli in my bladder and it damn near killed me! Try an IV tube run in your upper arm all the way to your Vena Cava, right above your heart and then I had to pump Antibotics stron enough to eat the block of a 49 packard engine, twice a day for a month. I had to do all this myself. Now you can bet your sweet ass that my Hygene down there is impeckable. I shower every single day and I scrub that baby out with antibacterial soap. My kidneys took a lot of damage, and it will perhaps shorten my life.

As soon as you get back to the US or is it the UK, get a Doc to check you for any sort of infection.

They have turned your penis inside out like a sock, and thrown away the evisera. They are gonna somehow shove that up between your bladder and your anus and in the correct anatomical position for a Vagina. Somehow they are gonna take your seminal duct and sew it to the stern end of that thing so that you will be lubricated up there and it don't dry out. So, you will always have this little brown discharge, just like a real girl does. They are gonna make you a nice little man in a boat (clitty) out of the head of your penis, and then they are gonna put your Uretha between that and your Vaginal opening.

Oh, and when you shower, always pee a few drops to flush any contaminants out of the Uretha, and then pat it dry with TP.

Everyone I know who has ever let them use Morphine on them for pain has been sicker than a dawg for a few days. That stuff is bad shit! I told them to use a Versed anasthesia and no pain killer unless I asked for it.

When I came out of surgery, I sang all night long from 11:00 PM till about 8:00AM the next day, and wanted to walk back to the ward. I think I was in bed for about 4 days and then they took out the catheter, and the miles of packing, so really the operation was no big deal for me.

Of course the good folks here put up with a lot of Bullshit from me when I got back. I had buyers remorse and acted pissy and everything. Still, no one spanked me and put me to bed with a bottle. :(

2 1/2 years later, I love my life. No one has offered to rod me out. :( So maybe you'll have better luck then I have.

Many Blessings

Khadijah Gwen