Being post-op is like...

[Melizza]

I am almost 6 months post-op. It is only now that it is starting to feel "normal" and pain-free.

Still 5 more months to go to feel like that 



Being post op is like having a freedom I never experienced before.

Or maybe as Alan Dean Foster said "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."

[Catherine Sarah]

...... Being a homeless shelter for lost plastic.


Having calculated the volume of "the orange device," times it's frequency of use; I've had more than 6 CUBIC feet of "orange plastic" pass through my pelvis in recent times.

[mrs izzy]

I had to do some moving of post in the topic that went way off the OP original question.

Please respect the OP. This is supposed to be a fun thread.

Just in case here is the original question.

Zoem
Okay. Time for a fun thread.
Share your opinion on what being post-op is like - and try for humor.

My example:

Being post-op is like... Having a drooling puppy surgically grafted between my legs. It's constantly slobbering all over everything, and when it catches sight of a tasty bone, well - you get my drift.

[pretty pauline]

I heard from a lot of girls who had SRS and seeing their new equipment for the first time is very surreal. I heard that its an experience you can't explain until you experience it for yourself.  I can't wait for my SRS and somedays, can't even contain my excitement.  I know it's going to look like a total mess in the beginning. 

It is very surreal experience ForeverGiselle, I didn't know what to expect, the time frame was strange, I remember getting the anesthetic, it seemed only 5 mins when I came round, couldn't understand being wheeled out to the recovery room and asking my Dad why, but he replied, it's done, 5 hours had passed, at first it was a swollen mess, but over time with healing it became a completely normal and beautiful vagina, my husband tells me it looks and feels completely real, he never knew the difference till I told him when we got engaged, so being post-op is finally being complete as the woman I was always ment to be. 

[Nicole]

Those first few days & weeks I just couldn't picture it as something used for sex.

It was an ugly stab wound and felt like one, it started to get better as I got out more.

Now, I'm very very sexual

[Vicky]

I got my first look at about 20 hours when they changed the first dressing, and I tried to remember the going price for stew meat.  What I saw at $3.85 a pound was about $6.65 of worth of meat.  It felt like the meat was raw too, and with the ice bags, it was c-c-c-c-c-oooo-l-d meat at that.

Pass the carrots & onions.

[Megan Rose]

That smile was 8 days post-op, the first time I'd been able to have a frontal look at myself.   Of course, it wasn't pretty, just like a newborn baby isn't pretty.  But, it was BEAUTIFUL!   

A year later, there are times when I wonder what the big deal was about.   Everything feels so normal that I forget I haven't been this way all my life.

[Catherine Sarah]

....... being a sales rep for feminine hygiene products


....... being a mechanical engineer, evaluating the viscosity of lubricant products for functioning appartus.


....... being a Zen Master in the art of adaptive post-op maintenance.

[Jessica Merriman]

5 hours had passed

Why so long a surgery time if I may ask? 

[Dread_Faery]

That probably includes time getting prepped and recovery, it can take an hour or more to come round after surgery. Heck I wasn't fully with it until the morning after mine.

[Nicolette]

Brassard does his within a couple of hours. I was aroused within minutes after the surgery, if not actually during it - I remember pulling and saying something. The wonders of the epidural.

[Myarkstir]

That probably includes time getting prepped and recovery, it can take an hour or more to come round after surgery. Heck I wasn't fully with it until the morning after mine.

Supporn takes around 6 hours avg due to his technique. Brassard in comparison is 2.5 hours.

[stephaniec]

thanks for the infomatiion

[pretty pauline]

Why so long a surgery time if I may ask? 

It's nearly 30 years ago Jessica, from what I remember I came round from the anesthetic about 5 hours after I went under, I remember 2pm at the time, when I came round and saw a clock again it was after 7pm, the time frame at the time was hard to gauge, it was a very sick feeling coming out of the anesthetic, my throat was sore as I had a trachea shave the same time as my srs, how long my actually surgery was I don't know till the time I came round, time is nothing when asleep, hours pass which only seem like minutes, do others experience this, but it's very surreal when it's all over and finally done.

[PinkCloud]

Being post-op is like... the best feeling in the world.

I'm on the 7th day right now. And besides the complications, pain and anxiety I feel so much more alive. Being trans has a kind of bipolar nature. The good, the bad, pain, pleasure, all at once. We appreciate what we got, we cherish every tiny adjustment and becoming more happier in the process of it. Many people take their body, health or life for granted. I think we experience  life in a much more unique way, and see the things trough many more facets.

[Samantha_Marie]

7 days post op...

.. being post op is finally being real!

[suzifrommd]

4 months in, being post-op is like having silk between my legs.

[Catherine Sarah]

......... changing all your toilet roll holders ( and everybody else's)  to feed "under" and not "over."