I am only sharing this news to forewarn others.
For the last three months or more I have been aware of chronic Urinary Tract Infection, and recently it had spread to my kidneys. I am on my fourth course of Antibiotics and feel ill most of the time.
I will share, on request, some pictures of my SRS surgical site, so that when you contact a doctor to get yours done, you can query him about how your results might appear. In the picture, at the top you can see the "clitoris" and just below that is the urethra in this picture, it is as open as the barrel on a .22 caliber pistol and provides easy access for any sort of bacteria. Below the urethra is the vaginal opening, which in the sixth year post op, has become pleasantly useful. And over all, I suffer little remorse now.
I have been talking with my Doctor about the ease in which I become infected and her reply is just, well, less than helpful. In the normal female Urethral opening there is a loose flap or "valve" at the end, giving some shielding from the invasion of foreign bodies. My post op surgical presentation does not show such a flap.
Do not assume this is an indictment of the practice of SRS surgery. I just want to warn the unwary to seek a result that is more suitable than my own. This is serious and if something does not improve, it will be fatal. I did not write this looking for sympathy, so no drama filled calls.
It is unclear if there is a surgical solution, but with the status of trans folk at the VA, it is unlikely. There really very little surgeons can do to construct an external sphincter.
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I wish I had only stupidly put sexy playboy pictures on the net. In 2008, a local news paper published a story about me called "The Trans Muslim" and today, using any one of several aliases I have used brings the story up almost immediately.
I know, "OH Darn, another idiot put something out in public that they want gone now." Well, I fit the label.
So, I have written the paper, asking for its removal and initially they say it is against policy. I am trying to find a way to ask the same thing of Google without luck so far.
So now I am wondering if there is some sort of secret squirrel way to demote the search results? I am guessing that the reason that it pops up so fast is that lots of people have searched for the story.
Is there any help, or should I just ...
Gwendolyn
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So now...
So now some readers go "Cool! An article on Gwen!" and do a search for the above and click through it to find out more about you - and reinforce Google's link. :-(
Google are likely only to do a withdrawal if it can be shown to violate some part of their policy - as I understand it, their original guidelines were set to stop dodgy people complaining about articles painting them in a poor light, and so are highly resistant to blocking articles from newspapers, generally referring you to take it up with the site itself. Without reading the article (I don't want to be part of any reinforcement!) your chances are low with Google if you consented to the original story.
About the only way to kill this off is to deal with the news site or get someone else to make something more popular with the same terms. :-(
You didn't write this for
You didn't write this for sympathy. You're getting it none the less.
I know we've had our differences in the past, but none of that matters now. I want you to be contributing to this site for many years to come, and I want you to do so free from pain and discomfort. If that isn't meant to happen, then I applaud your bravery and wish you well in whatever struggles lie in front of you.
Just not smart enough to know...
If we have had differences, I was not aware of them. Thank you Nicki.
I am only aware of one other contributor being mad at me, and she was clearly a lot more mad than I was. I am still working on something, but not much yet. I just wanted to warn girls not to go for the cheap solution to readily.
Gwendolyn
What you could do is request
What you could do is request that their online version have your name(s) redacted. That's a straight privacy issue, but doesn't require/request them to do anything major.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
There is no way to DEMOTE a
There is no way to DEMOTE a search result, however there are ways to promote OTHER results so yours isn't on top anymore. Given some time and effort you can individually promote 20 or so other results above yours, so yours will be on the second page. I however don't know how to do it, just that it can be done.