Stardust
That is a very sadly true story and the girl was Julia Grant. I have a number of connections with her - it's a very small world amongst us old-timers like me!
Julia, like me, and like Caroline Cossey (AKA Tula) was another of John Randall's patients from the 1970's.
My very good friend and colleague from the BBC David Pearson (now with Arturi films) made a number of ground breaking documentaries about her - Most Notably George into Julia, one epsiode of which i was briefly post production manager on! Those doco's were almost the first time that the condition had been openly and honestly shown on TV and they did much to change UK public attitudes in our favour. We ALL owe David a huge thank you!
Happily Julia's tale also has a happy ending - in the early 90's she went to Hove and saw michael Royle for a repair operation - the last time I heard of her she was in a relationship and running some kind of night club I think.
But yes I think your idea is a good one in the early weeks... once eveything heals then no need.
The surgery that Julia had, would probably have been done by Peter Philip at CXH - he was virtually our only choice back in those days - and boy oh boy was the surgery crude by today's standards - even his eventual successor, James Dalrymple, who was just learning how to do the op from Peter Philip prior to his retirment, at around the time I was going through was pretty basic... witness the fact that sooner or later almost all of us "early" girls end up going back for revision by a modern surgeon.
But today - and indeed after we have been revised - the results are so much more anatomically accurate and indeed durable that the sort of problems that Julia had are VERY unlikely to happen to you!
I hope that puts your mind at rest somewhat.
