Heeeello, beautiful ladies!
Making this post has been overdue for at least a couple of weeks, but Miss Ally here likes to procrastinate lol.
So, here I am, making this post, only two weeks away from finally being able to get GCS!
I am basically making this post to share my excitement about this grand event in my life. I remember so much back when I was 19, wishing with all my being to win the lottery so that I could afford GCS. And now, I'm 33 (just turned 33 this past Friday), and will be getting GCS in a little less than two weeks!!
It is literally a dream come true.
My surgery is scheduled for July 8th, will be a PI technique. I'll be having surgery in Mexico, with Dr. Carlos Guerra Castañon. I'm unsure if other girls have already talked about him on this forum, but he trained with "Sava Perovic Foundation" in Belgrade, Serbia, and has been doing GCS for two or three years now.
He is very young (I believe he is 36), and hasn't been doing GCS for a long time, which initially made me kinda reluctant to trust my surgery to him. But then I pondered a bit. My options were, go to Thailand, have the surgery one ocean away, put up with the journey back home, and have the surgeon who performed the surgery being one ocean away. OR, have the surgery in my home country, in a city that is just one short hour away by car, having my family there to support me, and having the surgeon who did the surgery being so close. The answer was pretty easy. And, on top of that, the Doctor really looks very confident in his experience, technique, and on the results he can provide. I had a consultation with him back in September of last year, and one more this past April, and he clear out all of my questions with confidence.
I did some research, and even came across some R*ddit posts of three different girls who got their surgery with him one and two years ago, and they all look very good. So I do feel pretty confident about my choice of surgeon.
Now, I do want to as a favour. If any lady here has already been through this journey and would like to share some advice, tips, or words of encouragement, I would very very much appreciate it.
I'm not gonna lie, I have started to feel very nervous these past couple of weeks, and hearing stories about other women who've been through the same thing I will soon go through, might help ease my nerves.
I think I have prepared myself quite well; I'm on therapy twice a week; I made a rather long list of things that would help me during the hospital stay and during my recovery; and made a list of things that would keep me sane lol, so I *think* I am prepared, but I might be omitting some things, or forgetting some things.
Or, you know, could be the fact that I'm only human, and being nervous is just part of the journey of going through a major life event -I must also admit that I have a nervous predisposition lol-.
So, any words of encouragement, any advice, tips, and tricks on how to make the next six months of my life more bearable would be highly highly appreciated.
And I will, of course, be making another post in which I'll share the whole journey with all of you.
I remember so much, years ago, reading all of the posts of women who had had GCS, and being all excited for them, and wishing to one day be writing such posts, and my time has finally come, so, yes, Susan's Place will basically be my diary for this journey lol.
Thank you all for reading this!
I wish you a great week ahead!
Hugs,
Ally.
