Gail, I'm so excited for you! Have a great trip and I know you're going to have an amazing outcome :-)

Quote from: SadieBlake on August 05, 2017, 04:34:33 PM
Gail, I'm so excited for you! Have a great trip and I know you're going to have an amazing outcome :-)

Thank you!! :-) Down to the wire now. Cleaning the house within an inch of its life today and packing for flight to NYC tomorrow at Noon. Last load of laundry too.

I've traveled a great deal for business over the years but never for 4 weeks!!! Basically taking everything.  Getting a bit jittery now but I expected that to finally happen. . . :-)

Gee. . . my cell phone just beeped while I was writing here.  There's a weather advisory and they're suggesting I consider re-booking my flight.  Needless to say this would be a total disaster if I missed my appointments on Tuesday morning. . . later

Maybe not so awful, my pre-op meeting was 15 minutes on the phone with Heidi Wittenberg, easy, peasy as I couldn't be in CA as early as they wanted to schedule it.

Hugs, smooth flights and best wishes!

Gail,

Congratulations and good luck, I am excited for you. I had GCS at age 54 and everything worked out. I was low on electrolytes which caused an issue until they figured it out. Eat what you are allowed before GCS. 

Thanks all for the well wishes. . .

No update on the fligiht other than they are expecting huge rainfall tomorrow in NYC. . . . but  . .  in going to Delta's Web Site I inadvertently discovered that my big new piece of luggage is too big!!!   Had to rush and return it and buy a new piece. . . not going to be able to take as much stuff. . .   guess packing will get easier. ..

Hopefully the flight scare was just to alert me that my luggage would not fly . ..  fingers crossed. . .

Gail, I hope your flight does not have any delays or any other kind of problems. I'll be wishing you a wonderful trip and beautiful results from your surgery.

Best wishes and Hugs,
   Laurie

Thank you for the link to your thread.  I'll be continuing to read how you progress.  Wish you the very best of outcomes.

Jennifer

8/8/16 Note:

Appointments on Tuesday morning with both surgeons were a breeze. They are impressive again with their great bedside manner. 

Afternoon appointment was totally different.  RN went though my entire history and all the Lab work my local Dr had done.  Turned out I was too efficient and had the Lab work and EKG done one day too early!  So they just redid them both in a few minutes.  They are sooooo efficient.  The RN was incredibly nice and knowledgeable. Afternoon appt took over an hour and a half. They also did a chest X-Ray at the end. I got to look at it on the screen. I was fascinated. She looked at me and said.  You must be hungry?  Huh?  She said, "your stomach is full of air". I'd had a huge Sushi lunch across the street with a girlfriend just before the appt!  Guess my stomach clears fast.  Guess that's a good thing.  :-) Off to Princeton till Thursday the day before surgery!!!

Took the train back to NYC from Princeton with girlfriend. Another girlfriend who was flying into Newark Airport from St Louis and coincidentally ended up with us on the same train into NYC. .  the Universe seems to be bringing this all together. . .

As soon is I got into my room and downed the first bottle of Magnesium Citrate NYU-Langone Medical Center called and told me to be there Friday morning at 6AM for 7:30AM surgery. . . I'll believe this is really going to happen when I wake-up from the surgery. . . ;-)

Gail,
   You know when you are on a roller coaster and it goes click click click right before you get to the top and the ride begins, this is that moment. Now enjoy the ride.
Moni

Here rooting for you Gail. Praying for no complications and wonderful results.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Went under Friday morning but surgery was stopped due to an unusual heartbeat pattern. When I awoke in a different place and bed I immediately knew nothing had happened. I spent the day and last night here in the hospital in order to get an Echo Cardiagram yesterday and  a Stress Test today. The net is there is nothing wrong and Surgery is now rescheduled for next Friday unless the Stress Test this morning shows something totally unanticipated. My heart is actually very string!! She'd a lot of tears yesterday morning but I've moved on. The hospital and staff are incredible.  NYU truly gets the best of the best. Both my Surgeons were in to see me at 7:30 on Sat mirning!! So the Dress Rehearsal had some glitches but that means the Show will be great!!

I was thinking of you, sorry to hear of the hiccup :-( really glad to hear your rain date is just put off a week.

Hugs and hope you're doing ok with the additional wait.

 Hi Gail,

  So sorry to hear of the delay but happy that it looks like a minor glitch and they'll be able to do your reaffirmation surgery on Friday.  Still here praying and rooting for you.

   Hugs,
    Laurie

Oh wow Gail, I can't imagine how that would feel. They are looking after you for sure. I know it will be fine. It might be good to tell them as you are put under, "No funny business, this time."
Moni

Big hug! Resume the countdown! Girl in T minus six days and counting. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Gail: Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I am so excited and happy for you as you are getting closer to being your true self. The physical will match the soul!

You inspired me to check out Drs in the NYC area (where I live) and I now have a consultation scheduled in November with Dr BL. I also have a consultation next week with Mt Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine, although with some trepidation as I read a post here about the negative results and poor bedside manner from them. Will meet with them with an open mind but NYU Langone is at the top of my list. Followed by Meltzer in AZ.

Sending you all the very best thoughts!

Hugs

Nina

Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers. Down in Princeton with friends eating well and storing up energy. Love college towns, so vibrant and fun. Totally over the Fiday emotional roller coaster. Not looking forward to repeating all the Prep again but I'm going to be really good at it this time. T minus 5 days and counting . . . :-)

Well, here we go again.  Dress Rehearsal last week was a bust but tomorrow morning at 7:00 or 9:00 am, hopefully I'll last more than 45 minutes this time with no irregular heart beats or other stuff and I'll wake-up this time with the surgery complete!! :-)

Checked in again early at the Stewart Hotel NYC (they know us now) so I could begin the "day before surgery" cleansing rituals at Noon! Actually, got started at 12:15 by drinking the first of two bottles of Magnesium Citrate (Lemon). These 2 bottles came from Rite-Aid.  The Walgreen's version last week was much better. Got a tip to NOT get the cherry or other flavored ones and stuck with the Lemon again. The Walgreen's version was so good we thought it might make a good mixer. .  not so with Rite-Aid's version.

The 2nd bottle gets downed at 2pm followed by (2) Dulcolax pills. Then the real fun begins. . . yuck . . . At 7pm I give myself the first of two Fleet Enemas.  That's really great fun.  The 2nd one is first thing in the morning.

Hope this isn't TMI but the idea here is to tell all . . . later

Gail,
   You should get extra vagina points for doing the bowel prep twice. I will be thinking of you and hope all goes smoothly. As for me, I am trying to master the dilator in one hand the ice pack on the eye while typing. I should go into juggling. lol
Hugs and good wishes.
Moni