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So if you can manage to say just one funny thing as soon as you wake up from SRS, what would it be?

Mine would be "i can't feel my bingo"

Haven't had SRS yet...but I could see myself saying, "For some reason, I'm really hungry for a bratwurst."

I planned on saying "that was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time; let's do it again" but waking up to vomit left me with not a lot of one-liners I was up to using. X) I made a couple jokes when I was in ambulance though.

I asked my mom for my soup bear. Considering it was a short Thai lady who wasn't my mom. It was funny

Quote from: Flan on July 23, 2013, 09:03:31 PM
I planned on saying "that was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time; let's do it again" but waking up to vomit left me with not a lot of one-liners I was up to using. X) I made a couple jokes when I was in ambulance though.

Yea.... because of several issues I woke up to extreme levels of pain, and I vomited as well, I was in pretty sore shape...:(  but this other girl who was there and in a bit better shape, saidto the doc " what the heck did you do???, I asked for you to make in bigger!!!"  lol  ::)

Though I am normally very funny, I was not feeling humorous at that moment. On first waking from surgery I just  felt the most incredible sense of relief and went right back to sleep. I nearly didn't survive long enough to get to SRS and when the battle was over, all I wanted to do was sleep!

The first really humorous  moment came 5 weeks later. I was getting weekly checkups from my gynecologist and asked him at 5 weeks when it would be safe to have sex. He gave me a  wry grin and ask if I had anybody in mind. I blushed furiously (I was very shy!) and said I didn't but was just curios.

By the next visit I was no longer a virgin and I guess he could tell because his head popped up mid-examination and he was grinning from ear to ear. I just turned fifty shades of RED. He asked "How was it?" and I just got redder!  ;D

Even in retrospect, that first awakening was such a profound experience that I can still not think of anything humorous to say about it.

I think I'll say "So, doc ... Is my 'pendix gone now?"

Quote from: ZoeM on July 24, 2013, 06:22:58 AM
I think I'll say "So, doc ... Is my 'pendix gone now?"

Freak him out! Say "What do you mean you cut it off!!??" LOL!

(Yes, I know - bad taste! ;)  )

I was planning on. "I won right?"

Quote from: pebbles on July 24, 2013, 06:03:42 PM
I was planning on. "I won right?"

That'd be a good after FFS...where one looks like Rocky Balboa after a fight...

When I woke up I screamed, sobbed and puked all over. I suppose it is funny in hindsight :)

When I had my ffs my father was there with me. When he held a mirror up in front of pulp of a face I exclaimed "Damn! I look almost as bad as you!", and we laughed ^_^

"All right everyone. I'll put out the lights and count to ten and if it's put back nobody will get into trouble"

Sounds like many aren't in the mood to be witty, what with the first thing out of the mouth is vomitus...:P

Oh boy, I can't wait for my turn...;)

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Quote from: Beth Andrea on July 26, 2013, 09:45:47 PM
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Omg....best post so far!!!

lol that's awesome :D I will take it back vomit wasn't the first thing, but I mainly counted it as 1st actually fully wake as the first coming back to the world I was so medicated I wasn't awake or really coherent long, but I remember asking if it was done, the dr saying "yes you are beautiful" me crying out of happiness, and calling my mom and said through the tears "its a girl" super happy right then and than I was out for 4 or so more hours, when I woke to a level of pain, that I will say as indescribable.

 so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

Quote from: victoria n on July 28, 2013, 09:07:25 AM
so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

Would you care to elaborate? Was there a lot of discomfort?

Quote from: victoria n on July 28, 2013, 09:07:25 AM
so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

See it from our POV--we haven't had it, although we have read many accounts, some go into great detail about pain/discomfort, etc...others had a much more less unpleasant experience.

It is, after all, major surgery...and can produce a pretty fair amount of stress and anxiety before and after. One of the ways to cope with this anxiety is with humor, to try and "see the bright side of life." Even after the fact, after a major pain experience, one should try to cope with the memory by any and all means...including learning to laugh at the intensity of the experience.

Of course, if one wants to go through life angry at others for daring to laugh at trauma (not out of disrespect, but to cope with the reality of it)...all I can do is offer *hugs* and peace to you.

@Beth Andrea:

My initial recovery was exceptionally bad but I don't there's anything wrong with this thread. I think humor is a great way to cope with surgery and I thought a great deal about what witty things I would say when I woke up  :)

The reality however was that when I woke up after srs it didn't even cross my mind that I now had a vagina, let alone what funny things I had planned to say It was a hellish nightmare that I can't even begin to describe and pain and discomfort seemed to radiate out of some unknown alternate dimension, and it lasted for what seemed like days. Perhaps what caused it was that I had revisions and other procedures done at the same time and spent almost 11 hours on the table  :o

Instead, for my last surgery, I put my efforts into saying something funny before right before they put me under  :)

Quote from: MariaMx on July 28, 2013, 11:13:14 AM
@Beth Andrea:

My initial recovery was exceptionally bad but I don't there's anything wrong with this thread. I think humor is a great way to cope with surgery and I thought a great deal about what witty things I would say when I woke up  :)

The reality however was that when I woke up after srs it didn't even cross my mind that I now had a vagina, let alone what funny things I had planned to say It was a hellish nightmare that I can't even begin to describe and pain and discomfort seemed to radiate out of some unknown alternate dimension, and it lasted for what seemed like days. Perhaps what caused it was that I had revisions and other procedures done at the same time and spent almost 11 hours on the table  :o

Instead, for my last surgery, I put my efforts into saying something funny before right before they put me under  :)

That's the general feeling I get from reading accounts of SRS, and in this thread. After the surgery, the most common thing seems to be vomiting. (I don't know if that's normal after any given surgery, or just for SRS, but a lot of people seem to mention it... :-X )

I haven't had physical pain like that ("radiating out of..."), but I have had spiritual pain to that degree. OMG that is awful, I wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy.

Quote from: Beth Andrea on July 28, 2013, 11:30:35 AM
That's the general feeling I get from reading accounts of SRS, and in this thread. After the surgery, the most common thing seems to be vomiting. (I don't know if that's normal after any given surgery, or just for SRS, but a lot of people seem to mention it... :-X )

I vomited a lot after FFS also but not after AM.

 Another "reply" from my UK medic friend:-

"I think the important thing for everyone to realize is that patients are all very much more individual in their response to things than most people realize.

Some will have very high pain thresholds and simply will not perceive as uncomfortable, something which for another would be unbearable. Add to that the fact that recent studies have shown that women and men tend to have rather different responses to pain and it all gets very complicated. Women tend to feel pain more as an emotion, a state of mind if you like, whereas men tend to zero in on physical sensation. For this reason there has been recent work on using different types of pain relief for men and women. Typically females respond better to pain relief that contains a sedative element.

To further complicate this there is the whole thing about there being no way to get inside someone else's head and verify that their experience is the same as yours. So what it all boils down to is that your experience will be yours and yours alone, and for that reason its fairly pointless, even if understandable, to ask about this sort of thing. The same thing broadly applies to pain in dilation, electrolysis, laser, and indeed any other treatment you may conceive of.

If I may propose the general idea, prepare for the worst, and then you will probably be pleasantly surprised when its not as bad as you anticipated. By contrast if you go in expecting to be all roses and fairy farts you will probably be horrified at how bad it actually is. This is why when injecting a new patient I won't tell them "this won't hurt," instead I will say "I won't lie, this IS going to hurt a little bit, but be brave." - then nine times out of ten it's simply not as bad as they fear and they feel ok.

I have seen people who have indeed had a very bad reaction on waking, including vomit and all sorts, in fact one girl I was with when she woke nearly died. However these are actually surprisingly rare occurrences given that this is major surgery, and I also know of people who had no vomiting, no discomfort and even refused morphine going through the whole process with nothing stronger than Acetaminophen (Tylenol to you).

Bottom line is - you want the procedure, you've been dreaming of it, so find a strategy in your mind that enables you to actually enjoy the process. Approached in the right frame of mind, even dilation should be at least marginally enjoyable. For example how long have you longed to be able to insert something there? Well now you can, indeed now you have medical dispensation to do so at least three times a day without being accused of being immorally obsessed with playing with your new bits! So how good should that feel?

Most teenage girls would love to have had six months of their life when they had license to masturbate without feeling guilty! Or you can simply think about all the wasted time and feel annoyed that you have to do this. Approach it with one attitude and the time will fly by and you will feel positive about it. Approach it with the other and all you do is reinforce the idea that as a trans-woman you are somehow hard done by - which attitude I reject.

Now you may imagine that speaking, as I do, from the perspective of the medic I am demonstrating that I know nothing about about what you are going through. Be careful with that thought. I understand more than you realize, but I am also very convinced that Positive mental attitude will get you better results than indulging in self pity."

Quote from: Ms. OBrien CVT on July 28, 2013, 11:58:39 AM
....... Bottom line is - you want the procedure, you've been dreaming of it, so find a strategy in your mind that enables you to actually enjoy the process. Approached in the right frame of mind, even dilation should be at least marginally enjoyable.

That could explain a lot. SRS was a life-saving procedure for me and all I remember is a dull ache for a day or two. When "pain meds" were discontinued in a couple of days I just felt GREAT. Funny there was no awareness of pain.

@beth I think the reason for vomiting (at least for me) is/was blood loss during the operation combined with being under for .. well all day.
Also I know when I have severe pain it makes me sick to my stomach, even if it isn't surgery (I have had this before) I think if they have had of kept me doped a lil longer I prob wouldn't have vomited..  maybe

I've heard that the vomiting is caused by anesthesia and being under for so long.

The pain I experienced after waking up wasn't exactly the type we usually think of. It's not like the pain we feel when we stub a toe or burn our hand on the stove. One would think that after SRS you'd feel your crotch being on fire or something, but it's not like that at all. The pain I experienced was like a thick soupy fog all around me. I think it was the sum of all the things that were "wrong" that caused this strange state. Half conscious, throwing up, legs and arms completely numb, body aching and sore, head and crotch completely wrapped in bandages, fever, pumped full of god only knows how many drugs, and to top it all off I had a migraine from hell (the migraine was probably the worst part of it all, it lasted for about 4 days and was only intermittently punctured by the morphine injections). Basically I felt mortally sick and wounded. Had I not had all the other procedures done at the same time I'm sure it wouldn't have been nearly half as bad. There really wasn't much pain like one would expect in the surgical sites.

As bad as it was I don't think it really matters. I fully expected it to be bad and it needed to be done no matter how painful it would be. Actually I'm glad I had the experience I had. It was very interesting. Transition made me badass I think :)

There's a lot to be said about the discomfort from lingering anesthetic versus the pain of the actual procedure.

I recently had two female relatives go through major surgeries (non-trans) and both described essentially what is being described here with regard to nausea and general overall discomfort. In both cases it took 3-4 days to begin feeling "normal" enough to realize that the general discomfort (throughout the body) had been from the anesthetic and that the pain at the site of the actual procedure wasn't what they had been dealing with.

Additionally, reactions to the pain meds can sometimes screw people up.

I don't want to minimize the pain from the surgery, but in the soup of post-op pain and bodily discomfort, anesthesia and medications may play a bigger role than some people expect in advance.

I really hate nausea - to the point that it can be debilitating and I will actively avoid it - so I think if nausea's involved I will not be a happy camper. Still, it's worth it, right?

The nausea is from the anesthesia and there are excellent anti-nausea IV drugs that can be pushed. You should have a serious talk with your anesthesiologist prior to going under. It's not unusual to throw up after being extubated. Also the IV pain meds can cause nausea. Anyway, like all things, it will pass. A small price to pay, isn't it.

One last thing, there will always be people in our lives, and on this forum that don't have a sense of humor. The most important thing for all of us is to keep laughing. Transition(ing) requires laughter. So don't apologize to anyone, here, or in life for having a sense of humor. Well...maybe to our cars for all the damage done on HRT.

Keep laughing!

I love how a thread that was meant to be funny turned serious over night lol.

Quote from: kariann330 on July 29, 2013, 02:01:53 PM
I love how a thread that was meant to be funny turned serious over night lol.

Well,
Transition is SRS business, after all.

Quote from: ZoeM on July 29, 2013, 02:06:56 PM
Well,
Transition is SRS business, after all.

ROFL!

O RLY?

;)

When it comes to the issue of dilating I intend to borrow this gem from my friend sarah from when she was getting a cervical smear. (Imagine it in her slightly cockney/london tough girl accent aswell)

"Oi oi Careful now love I'm not a chimney!"

Quote from: MariaMx on July 29, 2013, 06:13:23 AM
I've heard that the vomiting is caused by anesthesia and being under for so long.

This. It really depends on what kind of anesthesia is used, but extreme nausea is not an uncommon side effect of most of them. I'm not an anesthesiologist. I just work with them on a daily basis. :D

Knowing me, if/when I get it done I'm sure I'll puke my guts out. And THEN say something like, 'My god, Doctor! What did you do to me! I think I just puked my balls out." I'm really not a classy lady at all. Not. At. All.

I was told by my mom a few months ago that she'd pay for my SRS, since I'm on SSI due to injuries, and will be 59 in 17 days. I' ve only been living full time for the last 23 months of my life, the best and really the only good close to two years of my entire life and for now she has the funds. She's 85, had a stroke in December and wants to see her daughter whole, which for me means having a functioning vagina instead of this thing between my legs I've hated for as long as I can remember. This isn't to cast judgment on anyone else's decision how far they intend to go in their feminization, it's just that I feel I need it to feel totally female. Between her offer to pay for my surgery and now she lost her son, my brother, so I'm going to start searching seriously within the next few months. I've put up with a lot of pain in my life, both physical (41 bones and 16 surgeries) and mental (gender dysphoria since about three years old) but this is the only surgery I've ever looked forward to and know will be worth it. When I come out of the anesthesia I'll probably scream from the pain, then ask the nurse if it's finished, and once she says yes, I'll say "then I'm complete." Then I'll call my mom as soon as I can to thank her for something money can't buy, love. I'm sorry I can't joke about this subject yet, but if I come up with something before I get it, believe me, you'll read it! Hugs, Mira

Quote from: Miranda Elizabeth on July 30, 2013, 02:56:35 AM
something money can't buy, love.

But sometimes, money can buy happiness...

Before my SRS i said wish me luck and did the sign of the cross on the operating table. Everyone laughed in the OR.
When I woke up I was way too out of it to do anything. Pain meds + Pink Floyd on my iPhone= HECK YES  >:-)

No nausea for me because I requested a spinal. For FFS I did not vomit but was quite sick so I was rather thankful for the spinal.

QuoteI'll call my mom as soon as I can to thank her for something money can't buy, love.

Quote from: PiaBianca on July 30, 2013, 04:46:49 AM
But sometimes, money can buy happiness...

I agree Pia, without money most of us would be unbearably unhappy, and for me, suicidally. Being a woman costs $$$, and becoming one after testosterone has poisoned our bodies and going all the way with it costs an incredible amount of physical pain and $$$, but I think it will be worth it. I read a posting in one of the threads here from a young woman who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at five, given estrogen and anti-androgens just before testosterone would have begun doing its damage at puberty and had her SRS last year at 18. I don't think gender dysphoria can be 'cured', and I've known I was in the wrong body since I was four, when my dad made my mom forbid me, once and for all, from getting into her makeup and jewelry. My mom has told me many things since I went full time on September 7th, 2011, things I didn't remember or had only a vague recollection of, like them sitting me down and telling me in no uncertain terms that I was a boy. I knew I wasn't, just like so many others stuck in the wrong body, and I actually told them that, "then I'm in the wrong body" and that "I'll never be happy as a boy, never!" And it was a self fulfilling prophecy of nearly 57 wasted years. I tried everything under the sun, including religion, sports, and finally drugs to become happy as a male, irreparably damaging my knee, back and hip in the process. Frankly, I find it hard to even look at myself down there, and will go through any amount of pain to finally have my body match my mind, heart and soul. I'm sorry I've gone off the subject a bit, but despite the physical pain I'll have to endure, I've faced a lifetime of mental and physical pain with nothing but a destroyed body to show for it, so this pain will truly be a miniscule price to pay to finally be the whole me, Miranda Elizabeth Thomson. Thank you all for listening to my diatribe. Hugs, Mira

To see if can get this back on OP's track,

Not so sure of things in the recovery room and came out of things more when i was back in the room. First thing i said after i looked down at my fancy hospital panites where there was 2 huge bags of ice " i said to my husband i thought they where going to remove the bump and not make it bigger". 

Anyway was all fun at the moment.

I made my wife promise I couldn't have access to the internet unless I answered one silly test question, which was the first thing I said when they wheeled me down from the recovery room. :) Private joke, really, but we both were cracking up.

(And I'm another who ended up barfing from the anesthesia. Luckily, IV anti-nausea meds fixed that up.)

Topic derailed, moderator plz lock thread.

Aww... no more sausage jokes.
I think I will borrow the 'its a girl' for my phone conversations.  Very funny :)

I suspect my wife will hand me a pet neck cone and say its a present from our cat.

Quote from: kariann330 on July 30, 2013, 07:18:45 PM
Topic derailed, moderator plz lock thread.

Aww your no fun  :P

;D ;)

I imagine in reality the f bomb is about all I would be capable of... but a one liner would be good to have prepared.

"Well there goes my salary potential from here on in"

"How did the circumcision go doctor?

"Will I be able to play the piano?

"Nurse... this catheter is taking the piss."

"Fetch me some snow... I wish to practice writing my name."

"Now THATs puppetry of the penis"

"Look ma... no glans..."

"Ow"

"Now I know how how the band felt when Robbie Williams left... one less dick"

"Finally..."

Quote from: emmaline on July 30, 2013, 08:50:59 PM
"Look ma... no glans..."

Ha! This one really made me laugh.

Okay, I'll also contribute to the topic. I think, if I'm finally there I'll have no time for jokes. I'm always a very serious person and it'll feel very serious I suspect.

And thats not a bad thing either- what we face requires a great deal from us- some need humour, some need poetry, some serious refection and focus... at the end of the day, we get through this conundrum we face- and hopefully find peace.

I an sure I will stop joking around after I get the surgey bill.  :)

I am getting mine done in Russia under Dr Chopyakokov.

Okay... okay... that was a little below the belt.

Oh.

Quote from: kariann330 on July 30, 2013, 07:18:45 PM
Topic derailed, moderator plz lock thread.

In this case, the after surgery experiences are very educational, even if the topic has drifted a bit.  The title of the topic allows for some leeway.

I did move it to the srs board though.

Quote from: Æðelþryð on August 02, 2013, 04:02:41 AM
In this case, the after surgery experiences are very educational, even if the topic has drifted a bit.  The title of the topic allows for some leeway.

I did move it to the srs board though.

Don't all topics drift over time especially one three pages long? I mean you can't expect something to stay right one point on the internet with so many posts.

Does anyone know how to make Egg drop soup? Please...

Quote from: emmaline on August 02, 2013, 03:38:33 AM


I am getting mine done in Russia under Dr Chopyakokov.

I did a search for this Dr. but I couldn't find him, does he have a website? is he have any good reviews?

Its a joke, calico.  A poor one, but a joke.

Yep, its a crappy play on words... no such doctor (hopefully).

In reality I am down in Australia so Thailand is nearest, but I think I would prefer Canada or US when I do go for SRS- so I can visit some friends before hand- esp. Some trans penfriends I have never met for a bit of encouragement.

"Daddy stop the car, I gotta go pee real bad, I gotta go pee real bad!"  <I was waking up as they were putting in the Foley balloon catheter.>

I had a double anesthetic, and just some weird nightmares waking up.  Boy were the lights in the recovery room dim though!! 

Quote from: emmaline on August 02, 2013, 03:38:33 AM

I am getting mine done in Russia under Dr Chopyakokov.

Okay... okay... that was a little below the belt.

Quote from: calico on August 02, 2013, 11:10:09 AM
I did a search for this Dr. but I couldn't find him, does he have a website? is he have any good reviews?

Not sure which of those two posts made me smile the most and, while I don't underestimate how big an endeavour GRS is, for me,  being able to laugh about it is a life saver.  I already did FFS, two times more than 7 hours surgery,  and suffered a lot of really deep nausea following both surgeries. However, one thing I really liked was my surgeons (black) sense of humour.

A one liner for waking up that  comes to my mind is,  "Funny, I never felt a draught down there before..."  However, based on past experience "Quick, a bedpan please" is far more likely... :)

The subject is already very much on the horizon so I do already think about it quite a bit.

   

I remember perfectly the moment I woke from SRS - even though I was still coming round from the anesthetic - it felt just as it did in those rare dreams where it genuinely felt I had a vagina. But more than having a vagina, the greater joy was the feeling of lightness, of nothing between my legs - I didn't expect to notice it while still full of anesthetic and stuffed to the nines with bandages, pressure packing, drains and the like, but I did. It felt like I had been exorcised, that hell was gone forever, permanently, and could never, ever return. And typical of my urge to eke out a pun wherever possible I said:

"It takes balls to go through this surgery" :p

Quote from: Assoluta on August 02, 2013, 03:37:12 PM
I said:

"It takes balls to go through this surgery" :p

Or not.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien CVT on August 02, 2013, 11:21:07 AM
Its a joke, calico.  A poor one, but a joke.

lol I know I was being facetious 

Quote from: Assoluta on August 02, 2013, 03:37:12 PM


"It takes balls to go through this surgery" :p

A couple friends who knew said something similar, and I replied not so much, well not now lol  :laugh:

and another piece of post op humor, was I was at my moms and right before dilating while talking with my mom about it I announced well i'm off to go play with myself be back in 45 minutes she cracked up lol  :laugh:

Monday I will have my second SRS revisional surgery. Given that I am on a liquid diet and have bowel cleaning for two days, I suppose there won't be that much left to vomit, so I'd better think of something funny to say this time.

Quote from: Arike on August 03, 2013, 01:05:48 AM
Given that I am on a liquid diet and have bowel cleaning for two days, I suppose there won't be that much left to vomit, so I'd better think of something funny to say this time.

ugg I remember that diet, given the lack of food and liquid only I was very surprised to have puked when I woke, perhap's you might be more fortunate.

Quote from: DrZoey on August 02, 2013, 03:59:56 PM
Or not.

Or you could say yes, because the balls are literally taken :p

Kinda reminds me of an FtM talking about how limited their surgery options are and he said 'FtM surgery is a load of bollocks' and I said that yes, partly it is literally bollocks )p

I'm pretty snappy with the one liners myself, but when I woke, I thought I had been dipped into a bathtub of ice... I mean, teeth chattering, utterly unbelievable cold. It was all in my head, of course, but I couldn't get warm until that morphine drip got running, and then I was all pink floyd: there is no pain you are receding....  :laugh:

Quote from: Nicolette on July 28, 2013, 09:23:59 AM
Would you care to elaborate? Was there a lot of discomfort?

Victoria is right, I didn't see any humour at the time, my boyfriend was trilled that I was finally a complete girlfriend, my Mother was trilled to bits that she was finally gaining a daughter, but the physical discomfort at the time was agony.
The time period was strange, I remember receiving the anesthetic, then what seemed only 5mins was actually 5hours, I couldn't understand being wheeled out to the recovery room after a ''few mins'' I felt very weak and was vomiting, I asked my Dad who was there, what was happening, he replied, ''princess girl your done, its over'' then gave me a hug, then I felt the unbearable pain and packing, it eased when I got the morphine, then when the stent was removed from my new vagina a few days after, I screamed with pain, all I remember a nurse saying ''good girl, you can do, your ok''
It wasn't a time for humour, you do need balls going thru surgery like that, but in the end, you end up without them, then intercourse for the first time with my boyfriend, that was painful, but that's another story, the pain we go thru to feel complete.
p

Quote from: pretty pauline on August 13, 2013, 02:25:11 PM
Victoria is right, I didn't see any humour at the time, my boyfriend was trilled that I was finally a complete girlfriend, my Mother was trilled to bits that she was finally gaining a daughter, but the physical discomfort at the time was agony.
The time period was strange, I remember receiving the anesthetic, then what seemed only 5mins was actually 5hours, I couldn't understand being wheeled out to the recovery room after a ''few mins'' I felt very weak and was vomiting, I asked my Dad who was there, what was happening, he replied, ''princess girl your done, its over'' then gave me a hug, then I felt the unbearable pain and packing, it eased when I got the morphine, then when the stent was removed from my new vagina a few days after, I screamed with pain, all I remember a nurse saying ''good girl, you can do, your ok''
It wasn't a time for humour, you do need balls going thru surgery like that, but in the end, you end up without them, then intercourse for the first time with my boyfriend, that was painful, but that's another story, the pain we go thru to feel complete.
p

I agree, Victoria is right. But having read her past posts, I can now understand how her situation was exacerbated yet further and how the pain persisted beyond the healing period and how that affected negatively the memory of the surgery.

Quote from: Nicolette on August 13, 2013, 02:36:15 PM
I agree, Victoria is right. But having read her past posts, I can now understand how her situation was exacerbated yet further and how the pain persisted beyond the healing period and how that affected negatively the memory of the surgery.

I understand, I just read a few of Victoria posts now, everybody situation is different, my surgery was in 1985, but SRS has really improved since then, I had a 2nd procedure (labia plastic) a few months after SRS, my healing was slow, had a bit of (post op depression), but over time I had less and less regret and felt more and more complete as a woman, no gain without pain, it was worth it by becoming the woman I am now.

Ooh actually as a slight aside, this made me think of something I wanted to ask...

I would think after hearing these painful stories it would put me off surgery- as a child I spent a year in hospital after smashing my right bone and getting all the complication. Rebreaking, reseting,  toxic shock... allergy to medicine... it was horrible... horrible stuff.  Now I can easily associate that experience to any thought of surgery... and I fear going through such an expedience again but no matter what sort of mental contortions I do I cannot connect that to SRS.  Its like I have a kind of shiney happy block there.  Naturally I will bring that up to my therapist but I was wondering if any of you ladies experienced this?
Pm me if its too off topic.

Quote from: Emmaline on August 13, 2013, 08:29:21 PM
Ooh actually as a slight aside, this made me think of something I wanted to ask...

I would think after hearing these painful stories it would put me off surgery- as a child I spent a year in hospital after smashing my right bone and getting all the complication. Rebreaking, reseting,  toxic shock... allergy to medicine... it was horrible... horrible stuff.  Now I can easily associate that experience to any thought of surgery... and I fear going through such an expedience again but no matter what sort of mental contortions I do I cannot connect that to SRS.  Its like I have a kind of shiney happy block there.  Naturally I will bring that up to my therapist but I was wondering if any of you ladies experienced this?
Pm me if its too off topic.

Sorry that you experienced so much pain in the past. If SRS is important to you there are fine physicians performing the procedure with excellent results, here, and in Canada. Dr. Brassard is very good, as is Dr. McGinn, and Dr. Sinclair. I've seen their results. Traveling to a third-world country scares me.

Anyway, great post by Pauline. Humour gets us through times of great pain. Keep laughing and good luck. Oh, rest assured things have improved.

Quote from: kariann330 on July 23, 2013, 08:43:51 PM
So if you can manage to say just one funny thing as soon as you wake up from SRS, what would it be?

Mine would be "i can't feel my bingo"

OK, now that I've booked my SRS date, I feel qualified to post on this thread.

When the doctor brings me my dilators to show me how to use them:

"Wait. I've given you thousands of dollars and you're telling me to go f*@% myself?"

lol thats funny. when are you booked for? with who? im Booked with chett.

Lol too.  Thats a classic.

The last surgery I had, completely unrelated to SRS, I didn't want to move. If I sat up I knew I'd vomit and to my dismay the nurse or whoever eventually propped my bed up forcing me to sit up and she handed me something like a tool tray. All I could say was "nope....bucket." It was bad and after I was done throwing up I was furious and asked "what the hell did you do to me?" It was from the anesthesia. Knowing that I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be a miserable wretch until I throw up, after that I'll have my jokes.

I'm thinking of just after throwing up I'd have to say something like "jeeze did you ge me pregnant while you were at it?"

I have an odd sense of humor, and in a time like that after SRS the only way I won't be miserable is laugh at it.

I have had 5 (because of previous capsuling problems) past breast surgeries, nothing hurt the most like when i did the 5th one  ...Because it was the first time I was getting them under my muscle  and because i did 800cc (the biggest) ..it was the worst pain i have felt yet! ..it literately felt like i had my skin raw and  or as if I was scratched on the chest by a tiger and he had taken a huge chunk and had left  exposed and raw chest. it was awful for 4 days  with the 1st and second nite being the worst!  not even the strong oxycodone (Pain pills) I was taking were a match LOL

I have scheduled my surgery for march 18 now ..Lets see how i will do with this! ..i'm very anxious  also experiencing a combo of anxiety and fear as i get closer to my dream(srs surgery)

  I hear my doctor is cream de la cream   and i have read many stories about pain threshold(i know we all different) but i hope im one of those that will report that pain was more of a discomfort , than real pain , pain  that will make wish you die instead  :)


oxoxo

Quote from: JessicaNYCgirl on October 01, 2013, 01:33:48 AM
but i hope im one of those that will report that pain was more of a discomfort , than real pain , pain  that will make wish you die instead  :)

I'm not worried about physical pain, I'm worried about the nauseating pain. It doesn't physically reall hur, but it sucks.

i know i hate vomiting! it hurts me!

Uhg... I hate vomiting too.   :icon_blah:

So can anyone share their first joys and jokes after surgery... however long it was after waking.

I just watched LVs video on youtube talking about first dilation and the surge of emotion that went with it.  I balled my eyes out too just listening to her.  It was great hearing about the emotional experience as there is plenty talking about the physical discomfort.

Darn it... I gotta go put some dollars in my grs jar now...

Quote from: Emmaline on October 01, 2013, 10:07:21 PM
Uhg... I hate vomiting too.   :icon_blah:

So can anyone share their first joys and jokes after surgery... however long it was after waking.

after the rough awakening, my biggest joy was calling my mom, and saying through tears of joy, relief, of letting go of pain and so much else that I cant even describe I said "its a girl mom! Mom I'm finally a girl now, everything is finally right mom! " and her reply which made me just start balling (almost about to now) she said "I'm so happy all went well, and your not a girl now, you always have been I just never really could admit to it till now,i was just to blind to see." this was the biggest joy I ever had in my life. I now have a fantastic relationship with my mom :)

I spent 33 years giving anesthetics and things really are getting better.  I encourage us to be assertive consumers and ask for medications that can most reliably prevent nausea and vomiting.  Be prepared to verbalize pain and discomfort using a 0-10 scale.  Ask if your provider routinely uses common body warming and humidity devices during surgery and recovery.

A good anesthetist will be there during your initial emergence and, if we get it right, you can be comfortable to nearly euphoric with the best IV medications available.  Ask about pain medication pumps that you can control.  Some anesthetists utilize a continuous epidural technique that produces some controllable degree of numbness for the lower half for the 1st 24 hours or more post op.

Most of us are hugely relieved to awaken and realize surgery is over.  I have heard the best jokes from patients in this state.  Anesthetics can cause some degree of amnesia of events even before surgery and it is most common for "no time" to have seemingly passed no matter the hours you are "under." 

Attitude is important.  Visualize your successful recovery and feeling good, maybe even hungry.  We are fasting over night typically.  We are likely to be thirsty---ask for ice chips or a moist mouth swab.  Imagine feeling stronger and better every day in recovery and don't let yourself dwell on the risks.  You talked that over before you signed the consent papers and really, the most dangerous part of the journey was driving to the hospital in a car.

I love these funny comments. They are great. Did someone actually do any of them? I think I thought up some myself pre-op, but then right before I went in, I was too nervous and right after I was vomiting (yeah I know - and yes I had no food for 2 days) and my mouth was dry and I could not drink, so no speaking really. I was on an IV for days and my back hurt because some part of my skin almost died there from the long time on the table and I just wihed I could turn around to lay on my side. When I did that, it was the best! Because at that time you rest on your side and the legs come together and - whoa - nothing that is squeezed in there. This was great and totally gave me that warm glowing feeling that made everything worth it. No doc present at that time though and sadly I had no visitors. The story about mothers saying "its a girl" is so sweet!
I didnt see the doc who did it for some time though and by the time I did it was because I had severe complications that totally ruined my ability to make funny jokes about the meatball soup or anything like that anymore. And given that I knew I had complications on like day 2 but the docs didnt want to hear it until day 4 or so, that was not a time for jokes either. So I guess the only ones I made were about the food in con->-bleeped-<-ion with body parts removed and that was only to a TS friend who was in the same hospital.

I wish I'd said funnier things... though it *was* great that the B&B served sausage the night before. ;)

The moment of euphoric joy for me was actually about day 3, when my wife suggested I try squeezing the PC muscle - even with the packing and stitches still in, I could *feel* it all in there, and that was amazing. Until that moment, I only knew intellectually that I was finally fixed; I couldn't feel much besides "pain" and "phantom testicle itch" for the first couple days, and my brain didn't know how to correctly interpret the signals anyway (hence that damned itch!!).

I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

Quote from: DrZoey on October 03, 2013, 04:06:53 AM
I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

It wasn't much fun :-\ in fact it hurt for 10 to 15 before it started feeling somewhat better, but as time goes on it gets better, al the fun is in the fourplay  ;)

Thank you!

knowing me... the first thing that will probably be uttered by my lips are "I am hungry" or "Can I pee>?"

Quote from: Rita on October 07, 2013, 11:45:52 AM
knowing me... the first thing that will probably be uttered by my lips are "I am hungry" or "Can I pee>?"

They might get annoyed with me complaining about not being allowed to eat.

But omg! That'll be so strange peeing for the first time after they take the thing out.

I still remember being impressed that the hospital had a big steak dinner for us as soon as we all felt up to it. :) It was GOOD, too! Really high-quality food there (though the recovery residence had a professional cook on duty and the food was even better).

They also were frantic to get us all to poop, so there was a lot of encouragement to eat heartily and couple it with prunes, etc. The goal was to get everything moving by day 3, if possible. Of course, we were also up and walking within 18 hours, so there was no worries about using the bathroom.  And yes, the catheter stays in for at least a couple days, so "having to pee" isn't an issue either.

But worth all that ?

Quote from: DrZoey on October 03, 2013, 04:06:53 AM
I'm expecting SRS sometime early next year and would like to know how much fun losing your virginity was?

Quote from: calico on October 03, 2013, 10:20:03 AM
It wasn't much fun :-\ in fact it hurt for 10 to 15 before it started feeling somewhat better, but as time goes on it gets better, al the fun is in the fourplay  ;)

Calico is correct, wasn't much fun, infact my first time I was very nervous, my boyfriend at the time was really looking forward to it, but I was very nervous, it hurt the first few times, I had a little bleeding but everything settled down,  he was very gentle which was a great help, but I love the foreplay, holding me and whispering sweet nothings in my ear, that more important to me, a guy knowing how to treat a woman, you'll understand when you have your SRS, its a girl thing

As a reply to the OP, I've not undergone SRS yet but one woman said something shortly after (not immediately upon waking) that I found amusing and simply happy. She told her spouse, "I have a vagina! I have a vagina!"

While some transwomen simply become used to it over time, this same woman remains intensely thankful for what she gained on that operating table. Her optimism is even infectious, at least to me. :)

Quote from: LizMarie on October 15, 2013, 01:15:46 AMAs a reply to the OP, I've not undergone SRS yet but one woman said something shortly after (not immediately upon waking) that I found amusing and simply happy. She told her spouse, "I have a vagina! I have a vagina!"

While some transwomen simply become used to it over time, this same woman remains intensely thankful for what she gained on that operating table. Her optimism is even infectious, at least to me. :)

I'm sure when my time comes, I'll be super excited over it too. I'm never going to forget my gratitude to the doctors and their staff who do this, those who make it possible for us to actually be us for a change. I'll want to give my doctor a big hug right after waking.
My second thought will probably be get the IV out of me, but no one is going to pay attention to that for a while.

I'll be happy to be alive. Love of life is what got me here, without which I would have checked out long ago. My apprehension about post surgical waking up is complicated by previous experience. There is a good chance I'll be alone with just the staff to keep me company too. I'm not sure I'll be up to a quip.
So with a little luck I'll have good staff to keep me company, they'll keep the jokes flowing. :)

I really have to stop reading this thread... its going to be mid 2015 before I can even think about surgery.

But on the funny side, it annoys me that my car has SRS written on the dash right infront of me.  It is, of course, referring to the airbags, but still its rubbing it in a bit.

LOL, yeah every time I saw that on the airbag I swas thinking "Oh - not THAT 'SRS'!" ;)

Missy - maybe you can find someone here who will give you a visit. Out TG support group organized visits to people in hospitals a lot. I was also pretty much alone as I did not really want them to come, but I had a friend in the same hospital at about that time, so we were not really alone... I wish some of my family would have come, but you can't have everyting.

When I woke up in the hospital I had no chance to say anything because the first thing I remember was that I was fed some vegetable soup. This was soo nice and I remember it fondly because I was very weak and even couldn't lift my arms enough to bring the spoon to my mouth.

Overall the whole experience was very intense and I slept very much.

Quote from: Gwendolyn on October 17, 2013, 10:51:49 PM
When I woke up in the hospital I had no chance to say anything because the first thing I remember was that I was fed some vegetable soup. This was soo nice and I remember it fondly because I was very weak and even couldn't lift my arms enough to bring the spoon to my mouth.

Overall the whole experience was very intense and I slept very much.

We are all glad you are OK. Good luck with the next step then maybe in a couple of months a normal life down there.

Quote from: FrancisAnn on October 18, 2013, 12:12:13 AM
We are all glad you are OK. Good luck with the next step then maybe in a couple of months a normal life down there.

Honestly I was very weak but I also was extremly happy. ;D  I'm still not sure if it was just the surgery or if it were the pain killers that got me into that mood ::) but as the happiness prolonged for quite some time I guess that I made the right decision. ;)

Quote from: Cherrie on October 07, 2013, 07:35:15 PM
You can eat after srs.. At least I could. I was a little nauxiaus the first day so didn't eat much, but the next day I started eating normally. At first I was a liitle worried about having to poopoo lol and not being allowed to get out of bed, but I ate anyway. Three meals a day. The food at the hospital wasn't great, but luckily they had MacDonalds hamburgers and cheeseburgers and french fries on the menu. I think someone from the hospital actually went to MacDonalds to get it. I kept him or her quite busy :p Anyway, turned out that I was very constipated from the drugs because no poopoo until two weeks after the surgery... With lots of laxatives... Anyway, tmi.

I don't even remember peeing for the first time after they took the catheter out. I think it felt pretty normal, besides burning.. I do however remember the catheter being removed........ I screamed. I really really hated having the catheter inside me too. That feeling when you accidentally hold it too high omg.. Or when they forget to empty it.. Or when someone stands on it by accident..

If I'll have a revision then my first question will be if I'll need a catheter.. If I do, hmmm, maybe a rain check.. At some point during my stay at the hospital I got very intense waves of pain and I just knew it was caused by the catheter. Three nurses looked and said there was no problem. I called in a fourth nurse because the pain was driving me absolutely crazy and she immediately saw that the tube was all bended close to my vagina.. Happened when they washed me.. Guess what happens if the tube is all bended.. Omg.. I can still feel it. Oh yeah removing the catheter isn't always painful. I had a catheter twice and the first time it was being removed I didn't even feel it. I dunno why it hurt like hell the second time.

what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

Quote from: JessicaNYCgirl on November 01, 2013, 08:24:31 PM
what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

Urine will not flow into the catheter bag. Once your bladder is full you will have some degree of pressure/pain.   

Quote from: JessicaNYCgirl on November 01, 2013, 08:24:31 PM
what happens  if the tube is all bended  while you have it on ?

Well, it's not a metal pipe, so it can unkink you know :)

When it came time for mine to come out they wanted me to go pee on my own immediately afterwards, so they put a clam on the bag and poured half a gallon of water down my gullet, then they left to go their rounds while they waited for me to have to pee. However it didn't take me more than a couple of minutes before I had to pee but they didn't come back for what seemed like half an hour or so. Long before this I had to pee worse than I thought were possible.

Not being able to pee because of a plugged urethra is no fun at all, and the sensation of it is something to behold. I was yelling and screaming and the sensation of having to pee was insane. If I ever have to pee like that again and there is no toilet I'll just pee my pants, even if I was live on national TV. Not because I'd like to but because holding in a pressure like that would be impossible under any circumstance. The catheter came out of me probably 10-15 minutes after I would have peed my pants had it not been in there.

Like Cherrie above said, it's nothing like having a full bladder. It's like the difference of being a normal person and a super hero or something.

Don't usually like resurrecting cobwebbed threads, but I'm only 3 days post-op, sitting up for the first time since checking in on Thursday, so I'm allowed some fun, right?

Anyway, to review, the following was posted last summer. The idea was to think of the funniest thing you could possibly say coming out of anesthesia after SRS:

Quote from: kariann330 on July 23, 2013, 08:43:51 PM
So if you can manage to say just one funny thing as soon as you wake up from SRS, what would it be?

Mine would be "i can't feel my bingo"

Followed was a series of hilarious fun posts until a bunch of post op girls educated the rest of us to the realities of waking up after a long operation:

Quoteso waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

QuoteThe reality however was that when I woke up after srs it didn't even cross my mind that I now had a vagina, let alone what funny things I had planned to say It was a hellish nightmare that I can't even begin to describe and pain and discomfort seemed to radiate out of some unknown alternate dimension, and it lasted for what seemed like days.

Chastened, we pre-op girls beat a hasty retreat (for a few days before we forgot how ashamed we felt and started making jokes again).

Anyway, there was one reply that was so funny that I literally laughed out loud for five minutes.

Quote from: pollypagan on July 25, 2013, 08:48:05 AM
"All right everyone. I'll put out the lights and count to ten and if it's put back nobody will get into trouble"

Now that I have crossed over to the dark side, and actually woken up after surgery, I can say that it IS possible to have a sense of humor immediately post-op. In fact I DID deliver the line included immediately above, though I didn't get nearly as big a laugh. I'm blaming it on my delivery.

How good to hear from you Suzi!  Congratulations on a major milestone and victory for you.  We know you will be busy but thank you for sharing your journey with us.

Post op I was instantly awake and coherent, I asked the surgeon if everything went OK and chatted with my friend who was waiting to make sure I survived surgery.  Before surgery I wrote NO on both my legs, and YES in the middle.  I never heard if it got a laugh, no mention of it in the surgical notes :)

The last thing I said before going under (about 97 on the count backward from 100) was"Do a good" and I remember nothing else until after. I meant to say job, but was not able to finish.

I was thinking something along the lines of "Mission Accomplished?" or "I think it's dead Jim".

I asked "is it done?" I really needed that confirmation because my transition had been filled with so many delays and roadblocks (and largely ridiculous ones put there by gatekeepers) that I was truly terrified that there would be some last-minute issue that lead to cancellation.

i as a completely childish and witty full of humor person i bet when i get my srs and wake up i would go either like the "you said its just a check up! where did my nuts go?"
or

"f@## im outa here! wait i cant move

or go like
wiggle wiggle wiggle

just imagine waking up feeling that for the first time and go full gollom "myyyy preciouuuuuuusssss"

to top it off
hide a big plastic jumbo bug and throw it at staff when they come and check up on you X D

or even better shove it in when in a follow up check after a couple of months you will scare the living frap out of your gynecologist

Quote from: DrZoey on July 29, 2013, 11:46:01 AM
The nausea is from the anesthesia and there are excellent anti-nausea IV drugs that can be pushed. You should have a serious talk with your anesthesiologist prior to going under. It's not unusual to throw up after being extubated. Also the IV pain meds can cause nausea. Anyway, like all things, it will pass. A small price to pay, isn't it.

One last thing, there will always be people in our lives, and on this forum that don't have a sense of humor. The most important thing for all of us is to keep laughing. Transition(ing) requires laughter. So don't apologize to anyone, here, or in life for having a sense of humor. Well...maybe to our cars for all the damage done on HRT.

Keep laughing!

IV push Promethazine will make you fly and not give a toss about anything, especially when combined with a pain med.  ;D

Your mental state makes a world of difference. When I awoke from having bariatric surgery I did so in a very positive state of mind which is the same state I went under with. I knew what I was undergoing would be lifechanging for me and so I was scared but also excited. I think my positive mental attitude really impacted my perception of the pain which wasn't all that bad. By day two I had cut the Roxicet to half the dose taken once, maybe twice a day. By day three I was off it entirely save for the few times I overdid walking. I had zero reactions to the anesthesia and actually found the first day of recovery to be quite fun. I did ask for IV pain meds and something for nausea once but that was it. Go in with positive and happy thoughts and I think you'll find the whole experience to be not as bad as you set it up to be. Anticipation is pretty much always worse, in my experience.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien CVT on July 28, 2013, 11:58:39 AM
Another "reply" from my UK medic friend:-

"I think the important thing for everyone to realize is that patients are all very much more individual in their response to things than most people realize.

Some will have very high pain thresholds and simply will not perceive as uncomfortable, something which for another would be unbearable. Add to that the fact that recent studies have shown that women and men tend to have rather different responses to pain and it all gets very complicated. Women tend to feel pain more as an emotion, a state of mind if you like, whereas men tend to zero in on physical sensation. For this reason there has been recent work on using different types of pain relief for men and women. Typically females respond better to pain relief that contains a sedative element.

To further complicate this there is the whole thing about there being no way to get inside someone else's head and verify that their experience is the same as yours. So what it all boils down to is that your experience will be yours and yours alone, and for that reason its fairly pointless, even if understandable, to ask about this sort of thing. The same thing broadly applies to pain in dilation, electrolysis, laser, and indeed any other treatment you may conceive of.

If I may propose the general idea, prepare for the worst, and then you will probably be pleasantly surprised when its not as bad as you anticipated. By contrast if you go in expecting to be all roses and fairy farts you will probably be horrified at how bad it actually is. This is why when injecting a new patient I won't tell them "this won't hurt," instead I will say "I won't lie, this IS going to hurt a little bit, but be brave." - then nine times out of ten it's simply not as bad as they fear and they feel ok.

I have seen people who have indeed had a very bad reaction on waking, including vomit and all sorts, in fact one girl I was with when she woke nearly died. However these are actually surprisingly rare occurrences given that this is major surgery, and I also know of people who had no vomiting, no discomfort and even refused morphine going through the whole process with nothing stronger than Acetaminophen (Tylenol to you).

Bottom line is - you want the procedure, you've been dreaming of it, so find a strategy in your mind that enables you to actually enjoy the process. Approached in the right frame of mind, even dilation should be at least marginally enjoyable. For example how long have you longed to be able to insert something there? Well now you can, indeed now you have medical dispensation to do so at least three times a day without being accused of being immorally obsessed with playing with your new bits! So how good should that feel?

Most teenage girls would love to have had six months of their life when they had license to masturbate without feeling guilty! Or you can simply think about all the wasted time and feel annoyed that you have to do this. Approach it with one attitude and the time will fly by and you will feel positive about it. Approach it with the other and all you do is reinforce the idea that as a trans-woman you are somehow hard done by - which attitude I reject.

Now you may imagine that speaking, as I do, from the perspective of the medic I am demonstrating that I know nothing about about what you are going through. Be careful with that thought. I understand more than you realize, but I am also very convinced that Positive mental attitude will get you better results than indulging in self pity."

I read it somewhere else:
anesthesiologist: count down from 100 please.
patient: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96......
hours later, in the recovery room
The patient woke up, yelling "95!"

Every time I woke up from surgery I found a nurse at my bedside. Apparently it is impossible for a nurse to wait by your bedside until you wake up. So does the nurse actually wake you up when they thinks you are ready? I can only remember waking up, but no idea if I was waken up by anyone.

I remember waking up very briefly in a stepdown bed, long enough for someone to tell me all was well and then I woke up again in a reclining chair. I don't recall if I woke up on my own either time or if they did something to wake me. This was last March when I had the gastric sleeve and hiatal hernia repair.

Quote from: SWNID on August 12, 2014, 04:02:56 PM
I read it somewhere else:
anesthesiologist: count down from 100 please.
patient: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96......
hours later, in the recovery room
The patient woke up, yelling "95!"

Every time I woke up from surgery I found a nurse at my bedside. Apparently it is impossible for a nurse to wait by your bedside until you wake up. So does the nurse actually wake you up when they thinks you are ready? I can only remember waking up, but no idea if I was waken up by anyone.

Quote from: Wynternight on August 12, 2014, 04:28:22 PM
I remember waking up very briefly in a stepdown bed, long enough for someone to tell me all was well and then I woke up again in a reclining chair. I don't recall if I woke up on my own either time or if they did something to wake me. This was last March when I had the gastric sleeve and hiatal hernia repair.

Yeah that's what I has been curious about: whether I woke up by myself or waken up by the someone. I will make sure to ask next time lol.
The first time I had surgery, I woke up and completely alert; but after my second surgery, I was so sleepy. The nurses were making small talks with me and I tried so hard to be polite and responsive but couldn't help falling asleep lol.

Woke up to being asked to take deep breath... Intubator removed.. Dr holding right hand saying it's over and me holding and saying thankyou - then dozing in bed with machine which goes ping

Quote from: Monkeymel on August 12, 2014, 07:55:35 PM
Woke up to being asked to take deep breath... Intubator removed.. Dr holding right hand saying it's over and me holding and saying thankyou - then dozing in bed with machine which goes ping

Was the machine which goes ping in the Fetus Frightening Room?

I will be happy just to wake up period!!  :) Actually I think it will be THE happiest day of my life. December 2015 is never going to get here, ugh. I am hoping for a cancellation, but I would probably feel too bad for whoever had to cancel theirs.  :(

Jessica -- considering that you have told me where you are going for your surgery, a "cancellation" may in fact have been someone whose date was also advanced.  I learned later through an internet friend who I had gotten the spot from, and the surgery two months before had been great for the girl.  Another reason they may bump you up is that the surgery suite had been booked for something else entirely and the doctor reserving it did not have a patient to use it for (they had gotten better without the surgery).  Don't feel guilty if you can get it bumped up.

Hey Jessica if you have your surgery during my recovery time I could go with you if you wanted;) just let me know through a pm or text me im sure you have my number still  ;)

Quote from: pebbles on July 24, 2013, 06:03:42 PM
I was planning on. "I won right?"

One year later to the day I actually had My SRS, I didn't say anything witty.

"H... How?"
*Nurse explains things, Where I was how long I was out, Everything went fine... I think for a moment*
"Thank you Cora" (I read her name badge.)

I checked to make sure it was gone I saw the dressing and was happy in my drug induced state lol

julie x

I woke up to severe shivering and then the feeling of total bliss as the anaesthetic technician put a warm air blower blanket over me. Fell asleep and woke up back in my room.The nurse almost insisted I eat,which I did, and she was there ready for me to vomit(which I did)

I have a couple months to go but I think I'll have something quirky from SG-1 like Col. Jack going "that's right Dorothy, it was all a dream..." ^-^

Hey doc wheres my vagina, I don't know where you put it!

I cannot comment on SRS till March 31st 2015 but I can say what I said after my orchie. First I have to admit my real name or this just won't work.

As I came round I could hear 2 nurses chatting and one calling Sarah Sarah, I answered saying "hold on can I wake up first?"  My nurse was called Sarah and said "not you she was calling me this is Jane", I replied "Well your names Sarah and her names Jane and I'm Sarahjane so that makes me 2 people at once do I get a prize  ;D " Sarah responded with "I have a present for you" Then handed me my lovely fluffy pink Teddy Bear and said "Now go back to sleep" My response was something along the lines of "No chance I'm going to spend the rest of the day teasing you  >:-) "

I am someone that believes humour is the answer to everything and the more stressed I am the more I'm likely to come out with something humourous. I have been planning a facebook post to alert all my friends that I've woken up after Surgery and have a youtube video I'm gonna post. I'm not sure I'm allowed to post links here so if you want to see what I'm planning do a search for Only when I laugh. It's an 80's UK TV show. I've got the theme tune and will be adding a few images to it and putting under that I guess this means I'm awake again?

I am not wanting to sound like what's to come is easy or that when others talk about being ill or in pain I don't believe them, I've no doubt I will have some pain and I've no doubt I may well feel sick and being in a windowless room could make me wonder what made me choose here but none of that will detract from the joy of knowing after all I've already suffered I've actually done it. As I told Sarah the Nurse. "As long as I have a nice comfy bed and my Pink Bear to cuddle I'll be happy, I won't mind if you shut the door and leave me to get on with recovery. I'll let you know if I need anything" Yes I'm taking the bear to Bangkok and they'll be told if the bear isn't in bed waiting for me I'll be going looking for it as soon as they're backs are turned  ;D

I've had my bear for nearly 6 years and in the dark days I've had the bear was my only friend and comfort so to me doing this without the bear is not possible. If it could talk I'm sure the stories would depress even the happiest person. Yes ok so I'm crazy  :o

I'm not dangerous though  ;D

Hugs

Sorcha

hahaha, I'm having my srs on Nov  1st, I'll let you know then after the surgery lol

I think these phrases are absolutely awesome.  With that said, since I never thought to say anything remotely close when I wake up post-op, It'll feel pretty cliche/forced :P  I'll just be happy I woke up :)

It wasn't my first or second anesthesia so it just felt like waking upfrom anesthesia. A good one too, I wasn't confused or anything. Just tired and slow. I could have one sip of water after half an hour and after an hour or so I drank two cups of water.at that point I hadn't drunk anything for 24h and eaten nothing for 31h and I don't think I felt nauseous. when I had breakfast in the morning I had to use all my self control not to vomit after the first bite. I waited a little and slowly ate most of the breakfast. I felt sick fora couple of hours after that but it also gave me ssome strength. Lunch was some weird Italian food
The nurse could tell it wasn't what I was expecting so she asked me what I eat and I told her Thai food. So the dinner was Thai food, shrimp and rice soup. It wasn't spicy though, I like spicy food but I've been told spicy food is not good after a surgery and when I asked the nurse about it she said "yes, that's true"
I had nothing in my mind when I woke up last night. Only water which I asked for. I find it hard to believe some people come up with jokes in that situation but I guess they do...