Thanks for the answers. Elis, as far as my research has gone, no matter what I have not been able to find information about specific surgeons in Sweden, other than very general such as which hospitals they work at and if they do or don't do transgender surgeries without even specifying which ones. I don't know if that's because I haven't known where to look for it, or if it's just not available to the public for whatever reason. I've been looking for years with no luck. This surgeon that I saw now was simply offered to me by my gender therapist, probably because I've been operated on by him before. Sure I'd like to be able to find reviews and such on different surgeons to better know how to navigate, but as my options with that seem limited, I'm trying to do the best I can with the options I do have, if that makes sense.
Thought he was a nice guy cause that was my impression of him for my top surgery 3 years ago. Either he's gotten bitter with the years, or maybe he was just extra stressed out that day last week or what do I know.
That's what I thought as well, that they need to know what they have to work with. Well, the surgeon would kinda know my general size after 4 years on testo, but very generally then, cause everyone gets a different size outcome not only cause of taking testo, but with one's genes and such too. Some get quite a lot of growth while others never do, so there's that to consider as well. And I'm pretty sure I did not end up in the large category, which I think would be an important factor for a surgeon to consider as well as it has been for me.
CMD042414: I know they're not gods, but I often get nervous even over a lot less nerve-wrecking situations like asking for help to find food items at a grocery store, or anything. I did have a list of questions in a writing pad and a pen with me, but I could barely even focus on my own writing. Perhaps it would help if I kept the list more clean and organised though, that was certainly adding to the stress. That's a good tip, although I would really have to hope they wouldn't suggest rescheduling then, cause I have far to travel (it takes an entire day, cause I need to take a ferry from the island I live on over to the main land and that one only goes early in the morning and late in the evening, and also those ferries need to be booked way in advance, like weeks) but I guess that's more of a minor problem.
It might be silly, but would it be okay to perhaps bring my mother with me to the meeting with the surgeon? I don't know if that would actually help or not, but just thinking that maybe having some extra support could be helpful, or if it would give the surgeon the wrong impression completely or something. Like a 28 year old guy bringing his mother to the meeting might make him wonder if I'm really up for this then? I don't know, I'm prone to over-thinking stuff. I'm very open with her about this kind of stuff though, she's accepting, and she'll be my traveling guide anyways. But at the same time I tend to feel like I should be able to manage this on my own, I don't know.
