[Ralph Fox] Living the Dream

[SandraJane]

ORIGINAL PLUMBING


[Ralph Fox] Living the Dream


by The boys of MY TRANSSEXUAL SUMMER on February 14, 2012


http://www.originalplumbing.com/2012/02/14/ralph-fox-fisher-living-the-dream/



So Grateful


I'm sitting in my new apartment, new year, new partner, new chest and it's all a bit surreal. It wasn't the best time to move, but transitioning means your whole world shifts too. My nipples are in that gross stage, half pink flesh and half black scabs, with dissolvable stitches rearing their ugly heads like spiders legs, until they fall out. I still feel delicate, like I am fused together with glue and spit and any number of activities (rolling on my side, carrying something heavy, falling over) could result in bursting my stitches or stretching my scars into an ugly red mess.  I have to stop myself from touching my scars but I do love lifting up my shirt when I pass a mirror and 'wow' at the (for now) clean and precisely stitched skin, slathered in Scar-Guard. Luckily, I had the best surgeon in the world operate on me.