Quote from: Valentina on January 13, 2009, 03:32:50 PM
Quote from: Pia on January 12, 2009, 04:31:41 PM
Im good. Only trying to keep up with dilation. I despise it but I understand its something weve got to do. Its just time-consuming & bothersome not to mention messy..
Lol 
not to mention the icky moist feeling that stays with you. I've gone thru some embarrassing silly moments when dilating but I'm getting better. Wish I could talk about it here but don't think it's allowed.
Well, for educational purposes, you could talk about those instances if you wish, Valentina. Start a new thread on post-operative life and fire away. It is not prohibited, and I am sure some of us will identify with what you have to say.
Aside from what Sandy has described, there is also this thread titled "Dilating no-hands", and even though it doesn't contain personal experiences, the name of it and the ideas that people suggested are just way too funny.
This reminds me of a newly post-op girl about two years ago
who did her very best to follow her surgeon's instructions on how to dilate and douche diligently. She was doing wonderfully well, until one day she started feeling an excruciating, almost painful, burning sensation down there that tended to increase when she urinated. She grabbed a mirror, looked at it and noticed that there was soreness, redness, inflammation and even some swelling and other stuff. Being newly post-op and not having experienced this sort of thing in her life before, she literally went insane, started crying and such because she thought she had injured her neo-vagina during dilation. She couldn't call her mom as mom was out of the country; hence, she called the emergency room and demanded to be seen immediately. Oh, she was seen that same day alright, but there was nothing really wrong with her new equipment. As a matter of fact, what she was experiencing was/is considered very "normal" among natal females and happens all the time. Yeah, she wasn't even prescribed a single pill, nothing. All they told her was to go to the pharmacy or her local Walgreens and get an OTC ointment *sighs* ...just memories from the past that bring a smile to my face. Talk about embarrassing and silly.
But seriously, as I have said before, this is a major, major, major surgery that changes your life in countless ways. Dilation is indeed a major event at first (i.e, the lubricant, the towels, the pillows, finding the right position, etc), but we do get used to it and then it becomes routine and eventually some of us don't even have to do it ourselves LOL
I couldn't resist, sorry. Talk about "Dilating with no hands", eh?
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