Quote from: JLT1 on December 10, 2015, 06:45:54 PM
Hi,

Doing a little better.  I want to clarify: Dr McGinn was willing to go forward with the surgery.  I postponed it.  I really busted up my knee on Oct 2. It got messed up to the point that the surgeons would only do a knee replacement and that was not an option.  However, I missed the weight cut off.  That represents a surgical risk.  However, the bigger risk was that she did not get copies of my medical records.  THAT IS A HUGE PROBLEM.

I have difficulties with anesthesia if not handled correctly.  When I awoke after my second back surgery, it was five hours late and I was hooked up to a heart monitor.  It was very bad.  A brilliant anesteologst worked out a procedure that has worked fine on several subsequent surgeries.  Dr McGinn needed that procedure. 

Lastly...My mother took DES as a prenatal fertility drug.  This use was banned after five years because of severe birth defects. I beleive this was the first drug use actually banned in the US.  I mentioned two defects and she was upset because she needed to know.  The problem it's that those were just the start of the list.  She needed that information and I could not get it sitting in PA.  So, it was postponed.

I do not mean to blame Dr McGinn. 

Jen

I'm sorry you weren't able to have your surgery, but I'm glad that you are safe.

Hi Jenn, it's normal to question. I have heard from almost everyone that they have questioned gcs once they scheduled it. It's not that they don't want it it's just because it's the most life changing surgery in a transition. If I think about myself being trans or different I just think about the positives to being trans because there are cons to being cis trans male female etc. Hope everything works out in the future with gcs and I am looking foward to hearing hopefully you update this post about your experience with McGinn