So, the surgery itself has been a bit of a disempowering process. It pretty much took away my muscle tone, any independence from my parents I'd managed to gain and it seems to have raised some stuff that's eroding my sense of self worth ( Read more... )

So, um, I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but one of the weird side effects from the surgery has been to start making me question my sexual orientation again. Before, I was pretty happy identifying as hetero and being interested in men. Since the surgery, things have suddenly gotten an awful lot more complicated and I'm not sure what any of it ( Read more... )

Life is a bit turbulent at the moment. The trip to Sicily did me a power of good. Coming back from it, I felt exhausted, but with a bit of mental energy, plus my physical health seemed to have kept up pretty well through it ( Read more... )

I'm on my third infection. This one's been a bit weird because it felt like it spread from the inside out. I could feel myself deteriorating, but there wasn't much in the way of pain in my urinary tract or any of that part of me. Indeed, the whole surgery area was pretty unpainful and uneventful until about yesterday, when everything started to ( Read more... )

My recovery is remaining turbulent at the moment. I got another urinary tract infection, or just maybe an infection period. After the previous one, I started feeling better only to feel a bit worse, get more tired and then start a general decline. I was a bit quicker in going to the doctor's for antibiotics, although in hindsight, I really got ( Read more... )