Watching GRS video's, animated and real

[epvanbeveren]

Hi ladies,

I am kind of curious to know how all of you are thinking about watching the GRS video's on YouTube.

I have tried watching them before and after my surgery, but I can still not watch these video's till the end, to scary. I have tried it a few times after surgery now, to try to imagine where my "pinch" pains are coming from, so it will make sense to me.

My Dr. told me I have many more months of healing to do, so she did make me feel more comfortable.

[MollyPants]

I've only seen a few snippets so far. It's really interesting how they do it and the results are amazing. So I am sort of drawn to watching it. But oh my god is it scary to see happening! It really makes my skin crawl. I think it's a really brave thing to go through.

The animated ones are fine as it's not quite real for me.

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[Colleen_definitely]

I've always hated watching surgery videos. It just creeps me out.

The animation of a PI surgery was interesting and really made the joke of calling it a "renovation" much funnier since so much is reused.

[Rachel]

Before GCS I watched every video I could find on youtube. I watched the good ones several times. After a while I became desensitized to the blood and really interested in the different techniques, stitches used and looks. I went to many doctors presentations and some several times at the trans health conference. I learned some valuable insight and chose my surgeon based on a set of criteria. I guess I evolved in my initial video viewing to becoming very interested in the procedures and types of procedures being offered.

I wonder if I was a year latter in my research I may have chosen the peritoneal graft or if I was not afraid the colon graft.     

[jfong]

Pre-op I used to get light headed and almost passed out when I think too much in details about the surgery, once post op.. it doesn't really bother me anymore. I can watch both versions without any ill effect.

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