Okay. Time for a fun thread.
Share your opinion on what being post-op is like - and try for humor.
My example:
Being post-op is like... Having a drooling puppy surgically grafted between my legs. It's constantly slobbering all over everything, and when it catches sight of a tasty bone, well - you get my drift.
being post op is everything I ever wanted, yet so over-rated.
;)
Being post-op is feeling normal. :)
Quote from: Susan522 on August 06, 2014, 10:41:58 PM
Being post-op is feeling normal. :)
Fer sure! My new life was so easy and natural it felt like the chains that bound me to a heavy load had broken and I was propelled forward like a shot from a cannon! One of my earliest thoughts was "What the frig do I do with all this energy and drive now???!!!"
Sorry, but I'm less than two months post up. Being post op is still like carrying around a ripe apple between my legs.
Quote from: suzifrommd on August 07, 2014, 07:57:40 AM
Sorry, but I'm less than two months post up. Being post op is still like carrying around a ripe apple between my legs.
I'm at the two month mark myself. (And honestly I'm hoping the slobber aspect dies down)
All stages are legitimate :)
It is like having a recurring bloody nose when you have a bad head cold but last for months.
Being post-op is like going from a straightforward little hatchback to a fancy supercar with a million bells and whistles - it's an improvement overall, but I'm used to a simple obvious machine and now it's got all these features (and nooks and crannies) that I have to figure out!
Having a massive bulldog clip between your legs..
But it does get better x
Relaxing. I mean after all the healing is done.
Being baby post op (4 weeks)...
A throbbing pulsating zone... Which is me!
A reason to relax... On sick leave
A release... To be free!
A promise to explore... When not sore
A sensuality... To ripen more
A new life.. A new core!
Waking up and realising it was all just a bad dream.
Quote from: Nicole on August 06, 2014, 10:39:00 PM
being post op is everything I ever wanted, yet so over-rated.
;)
I so agree with this. I love the fact that I am a done deal and just living life, but....it's just a stinky vagina :)
Quote from: Zumbagirl on August 28, 2014, 05:56:24 PM
.it's just a stinky vagina :)
I laugh when I read that, I remember when my packing was removed and seeing my new vagina for that very first time, a very surreal moment, but a week later showing it to my exboyfriend at the time and his reaction ''wow nice pussy'' it was anything but nice, just a surgical swollen mess, but being a good boyfriend was just trying to cheer me up and give me confidence.
Quote from: pretty pauline on August 30, 2014, 07:55:16 AM
I laugh when I read that, I remember when my packing was removed and seeing my new vagina for that very first time, a very surreal moment, but a week later showing it to my exboyfriend at the time and his reaction ''wow nice pussy'' it was anything but nice, just a surgical swollen mess, but being a good boyfriend was just trying to cheer me up and give me confidence.
I heard from a lot of girls who had SRS and seeing their new equipment for the first time is very surreal. I heard that its an experience you can't explain until you experience it for yourself. I can't wait for my SRS and somedays, can't even contain my excitement. I know it's going to look like a total mess in the beginning. :)
it looks like you've been stabbed, fixed & stabbed again in the same area.
I remember the first time I saw it.
The first thing that I thought was "there is no way that thing is made for sex".
As another baby post-op (2 wks), my first reaction on seeing the new downstairs was, "Oh my God, what a mess....!" However, shortly after that, when I got to do my first dilation alone and saw my body in the little mirror from the bottom up, including my now considerably larger breasts, I felt so happy that hot tears just started streaming from my eyes. It was the first time in my life that I have seen myself pretty totally as a woman and having waited so long for this moment it was pure, unmitigated joy.
As the days have gone by, so far enjoying a totally trouble free and odourless recovery, that joy has been pretty constant and I even quite enjoy my dilation sessions which are still a moment of discovery of my new body. This will no doubt wear off over time as the amount of time it all requires is quite daunting, especially when breast massages are added to the mix, but for now it is pretty well all pleasure.
Hugs
Donna
Ten weeks post-op now, and everything feels much better.
Being post-op is like daydreaming about your most amazing fantasy while getting depressed about how it can't possibly come true...
...and then realizing that you're not daydreaming at all, you're living life, and it IS true.
Yeah, "surreal" is a good word. Oddly enough, it did look like it was supposed to - just HUGE. There was so much swelling. So much. It was like a normal vulva blown up to 10X normal size.
And Suzi is right that it still seems sometimes like a dream, except it's true.
Has anyone ever had this thought:
I reached down tonight and felt my new vagina and the thought strikes me "I'm a guy. I'm not allowed to have one of these." And I had an amazing feeling like I'd gotten away with something and that it's too late. They can't take it back. >:-)
Quote from: Samantha007 on September 05, 2014, 12:50:58 AM
I am almost 6 months post-op. It is only now that it is starting to feel "normal" and pain-free.
Still 5 more months to go to feel like that :(
:)
Being post op is like having a freedom I never experienced before.
Or maybe as Alan Dean Foster said "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
...... Being a homeless shelter for lost plastic.
Having calculated the volume of "the orange device," times it's frequency of use; I've had more than 6 CUBIC feet of "orange plastic" pass through my pelvis in recent times. :icon_lol: :icon_cry2:
I had to do some moving of post in the topic that went way off the OP original question.
Please respect the OP. This is supposed to be a fun thread.
Just in case here is the original question.
QuoteZoem
Okay. Time for a fun thread.
Share your opinion on what being post-op is like - and try for humor.
My example:
Being post-op is like... Having a drooling puppy surgically grafted between my legs. It's constantly slobbering all over everything, and when it catches sight of a tasty bone, well - you get my drift.
Quote from: ForeverGiselle on September 03, 2014, 10:36:35 PM
I heard from a lot of girls who had SRS and seeing their new equipment for the first time is very surreal. I heard that its an experience you can't explain until you experience it for yourself. I can't wait for my SRS and somedays, can't even contain my excitement. I know it's going to look like a total mess in the beginning. :)
It is very surreal experience ForeverGiselle, I didn't know what to expect, the time frame was strange, I remember getting the anesthetic, it seemed only 5 mins when I came round, couldn't understand being wheeled out to the recovery room and asking my Dad why, but he replied, it's done, 5 hours had passed, at first it was a swollen mess, but over time with healing it became a completely normal and beautiful vagina, my husband tells me it looks and feels completely real, he never knew the difference till I told him when we got engaged, so being post-op is finally being complete as the woman I was always ment to be.
Those first few days & weeks I just couldn't picture it as something used for sex.
It was an ugly stab wound and felt like one, it started to get better as I got out more.
Now, I'm very very sexual
I got my first look at about 20 hours when they changed the first dressing, and I tried to remember the going price for stew meat. What I saw at $3.85 a pound was about $6.65 of worth of meat. It felt like the meat was raw too, and with the ice bags, it was c-c-c-c-c-oooo-l-d meat at that.
Pass the carrots & onions.
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That smile was 8 days post-op, the first time I'd been able to have a frontal look at myself. Of course, it wasn't pretty, just like a newborn baby isn't pretty. But, it was BEAUTIFUL!
A year later, there are times when I wonder what the big deal was about. Everything feels so normal that I forget I haven't been this way all my life.
....... being a sales rep for feminine hygiene products
....... being a mechanical engineer, evaluating the viscosity of lubricant products for functioning appartus.
....... being a Zen Master in the art of adaptive post-op maintenance.
Quote from: pretty pauline on September 11, 2014, 05:36:19 PM
5 hours had passed
Why so long a surgery time if I may ask? ???
That probably includes time getting prepped and recovery, it can take an hour or more to come round after surgery. Heck I wasn't fully with it until the morning after mine.
Brassard does his within a couple of hours. I was aroused within minutes after the surgery, if not actually during it - I remember pulling and saying something. The wonders of the epidural.
Quote from: Dread_Faery on September 27, 2014, 01:09:46 PM
That probably includes time getting prepped and recovery, it can take an hour or more to come round after surgery. Heck I wasn't fully with it until the morning after mine.
Supporn takes around 6 hours avg due to his technique. Brassard in comparison is 2.5 hours.
thanks for the infomatiion
Quote from: Jessica Merriman on September 27, 2014, 11:43:56 AM
Why so long a surgery time if I may ask? ???
It's nearly 30 years ago Jessica, from what I remember I came round from the anesthetic about 5 hours after I went under, I remember 2pm at the time, when I came round and saw a clock again it was after 7pm, the time frame at the time was hard to gauge, it was a very sick feeling coming out of the anesthetic, my throat was sore as I had a trachea shave the same time as my srs, how long my actually surgery was I don't know till the time I came round, time is nothing when asleep, hours pass which only seem like minutes, do others experience this, but it's very surreal when it's all over and finally done.
Being post-op is like... the best feeling in the world.
I'm on the 7th day right now. And besides the complications, pain and anxiety I feel so much more alive. Being trans has a kind of bipolar nature. The good, the bad, pain, pleasure, all at once. We appreciate what we got, we cherish every tiny adjustment and becoming more happier in the process of it. Many people take their body, health or life for granted. I think we experience life in a much more unique way, and see the things trough many more facets.
7 days post op...
.. being post op is finally being real!
4 months in, being post-op is like having silk between my legs.
......... changing all your toilet roll holders ( and everybody else's) to feed "under" and not "over."
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