Hi all, thank you for taking your time to read this.

This is my first time writing in this forum, but I have been a reader many times through some years, and many people in this forum, with their stories, have helped me so much. So I think it's time to put my two cents in this forum.

In October 23th I will be on Chettawut's hands. Also, I will be in the Vertical Suite during these days. I have not paid yet all the amount for the surgery but I guess that it will be soon.

This months before the surgery I'm very, very frightened about all. A lot of "what if..." come across my mind. Fear of repent is one of those. Also (and perhaps Androcur sure have ended that posibility) the idea of being irreparably infertile is very common on my mind (since I'm lesbian and too young for kids). I hope these feelings dissapear with time, as my psycho said, but...

Well, I'll keep you updated, I suppose. Again thank you all.

P.D: In other post I read something about a Facebook Chett's private group. Sounds interesting for me so please some info would be fine.
P.D2: As you could have note, English is not my first language. Sorry about that.

Hello Miss Turing

Have you thought about going to a sperm bank?
I know that is one thing I sometimes regret but then my siblings have children and I don't feel so bad.

One step at a time, you will be fine.


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Hi Lucy and welcome to the site.

I think your English is fine. Far better than my abilities in any of the languages I have studied. So, no worries. You have enough on your mind.

There are a lot of girls here who have gone to Dr Chett. I hope and imagine they will chime in and answer questions and share fears and experiences they had.

I find it interesting that fear and doubt seem so common at every step along the way. From what I see of all the postings here, it is very common. You are in good company.  Thank you for your bravery in sharing your feelings and experience with us. It is brave, especially considering it is a language that is not your first.

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Nice to hear from you Lucy. I'm due with Dr Chett a few months after you. Would love to hear about your experience.

Good luck)

Quote from: Cure Bunny on September 06, 2017, 10:53:38 PM
Hello Miss Turing

Have you thought about going to a sperm bank?
I know that is one thing I sometimes regret but then my siblings have children and I don't feel so bad.

One step at a time, you will be fine.


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That was a bit bad story for me, because when HRT started I wanted to freeze and save sperm but I had not enough money for that. Now that I have enough money to afford it, they did not found anything to save  and they said "why didn't you come earlier?" and I got angry about that. It seems that if I stop HRT for several months it could have recover something, but it's not an option because all the bad things would come back  and now I have no time so it's a bit frustrating situation.

I suppose that the solution was to accept that I'm infertile and that it's not going to change anymore, and accept other's sperm in the future for that topic. It's a sad thing in my opinion.

Hugs Lucy

It's hard to choose sometimes but you will be fine because you are choosing to be you.

It is sad, but you can still be a great mom even if you are not a biological parent.

Hugs


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Hello, I'm here again.

I arrived Bangkok this week and I'm in the Vertical Suite until November. I hope I would see someone from this forum this month, that should be nice 

Bangkok seems like a very chaotic city. Almost no one speaks English fluently  But they are usually kind to us (except if you try to take a taxi to the center of the city  )

Tomorrow I will see Chettawut, lets see what happens and what we could expect for the surgery. Fingers crossed.

Brief update time!

This morning we saw Chettawut. We go with the driver who awaited outside the hotel and drive us to there. The clinic is very small and lost from the rest of the world, but it seems clean and nice. Here they gave to me lots of papers about the bowel clean, signing some documents telling me what I could expect (OH MY GOD I WILL NOT HAVE SEX LIKE A MAN ANYMORE I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT!! -joke-) and that the clinic would not be responsible if something wrong happens because of my bad, also that complications could happen and blah blah blah, you know, a similar document like you could see when you start HRT.

Chettawut seems a very nice person, he said that he would try his best so it seems that he is quite professional. I hope that he could have a professional work also. After some technical questions about anesthesia, painkillers, etc, etc; we went to Bangkok in order to enjoy the rest of the day. It felt like a regular holiday trip, which was very nice. And tomorrow I'll start with the bad things 

I'm not nervous at all, which was nice and also weird, since I expected to be very very nervous this days. But I'm fine, after all. Let's see what happens this weekend.

That's all. Have a nice day you all

So exciting! Not to bring you down, but the blah blah blah complications did happen after my surgery, and I was not mentally prepared for it. So be ready for anything, and understand that a healing complication doesn't mean you won't be happy in the end. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on October 20, 2017, 12:26:04 PM
So exciting! Not to bring you down, but the blah blah blah complications did happen after my surgery, and I was not mentally prepared for it. So be ready for anything, and understand that a healing complication doesn't mean you won't be happy in the end. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Yes it could be possible I know that, it's just that it seems so disgusting to me all these "It's not my problem" documents, because perhaps these doctors usually "help us" with our transitioning, they magically disappear when problems come out. It's very bad.

Besides that, I spent the morning doing tourist's things But the liquid diet is so hard
And I'm currenly waiting for some effects for the laxative pills (none yet aften 2 hours), and in a couple of minutes the enema

Quote from: LucyTuring on October 21, 2017, 06:42:18 AM
Yes it could be possible I know that, it's just that it seems so disgusting to me all these "It's not my problem" documents, because perhaps these doctors usually "help us" with our transitioning, they magically disappear when problems come out. It's very bad.

You get that with all doctors, and you won't get surgery anywhere without signing such documents. It doesn't necessarily mean they won't take care of you afterwards, and Dr Chett does have quite a good reputation.

Quote from: AnonyMs on October 21, 2017, 07:16:48 AM
You get that with all doctors, and you won't get surgery anywhere without signing such documents. It doesn't necessarily mean they won't take care of you afterwards, and Dr Chett does have quite a good reputation.

Yes I know that all doctors do this, that's why I called them the blahblahblah documents  Also yes, Chett was my option because of the positive feedback I got from her patients, I hope that he could do a good job and aftercare

Besides that, I started with the Swiff solution. Tasted very bad I don't know if I could drink that for a second time. It was so bad that my body started to tremble after drink that. Now I hate the taste of the soda I used to mix it, remembers me the horrible Swiff taste. The second time I'll drink it with apple juice.

After a few moments of tremble and cold sensation the magic started in the bathroom. I'm feeling fine now, meeting the WC every 5-10 minutes. I suppose that the rest of the day would be as well so expect this is the last post from me until post-surgery.

Have a nice day

Hi Lucy,

Hopefully your surgery went well. I'm on Chet's schedule for tomorrow (SRS + Tracheal shave). I'm also staying in the vertical suite. Let me know if you would like to meet up sometime. I also find it hard to get in contact with other Chet patients, so I thought I might as well register here and ran straight into your post . Wish you all the best!

Tess

Lucy I hope all went well with your surgery today. Please keep us updated on your progress when you can.

The same goes your you Tess best of luck to you both.

Hugs,
    Laurie

Quote from: TessB on October 24, 2017, 02:04:39 AM
Hi Lucy,

Hopefully your surgery went well. I'm on Chet's schedule for tomorrow (SRS + Tracheal shave). I'm also staying in the vertical suite. Let me know if you would like to meet up sometime. I also find it hard to get in contact with other Chet patients, so I thought I might as well register here and ran straight into your post . Wish you all the best!

Tess

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Hope you're well Lucy. Looking forward to hearing how the surgery went.

Hi, time to some weekly update (I think it will be weekly). I can say that, besides minor issues that I hope to be fixed soon, everything went fine, no big complications 

Day 0 - Op.
On the day of the surgery the driver take me to the clinic and I went upstairs on the clinic, where I got naked only with the typical hospital coat and they got me waiting maybe 1.30 - 2 hours with a very cold air It was fine for me to relax, keep away from nervous and rest. Then I went to the operation room (very small and simple, do not expect a five-stars-hospital surgery room). I met the anesthesiologist who asked me to come in the bed in some "cruxifition" position. Then some not important questions, the "bite" of the needle, cold liquid inside my arm and then I fell asleep.

Day 0 - Post Op.
When I woke up I can't barely see anything. All blur. Only could hear Chettawut's voice telling me "everything went well" with their always-trying-to-be-kind voice. Since I was telling before surgery to breath strong I did, and by some reason I have the sensation that I did some move, scaried or something, not sure. I sleept again. When I woke up again, I do not had the tube in the throat, so I said "fine, no pain for this part", but that reinforced my idea that I did something by the fear of the moment. After that, just sleep.
After that the next days in the Clinic was only invested in rest and sleep. Almost always dealing with a constant pain from 1 to 3/4 about 10. It was bearable, but very annoying since it was constant. The meals were nice at first (probably because of the no-food diet), but the next days it becomed very bad. The last day I even vomit the kind of chocolate with milk with all the pills (pro-tip: It's not necessary to take all the pills by one. Don't act like a tough woman taking all in one). The nurse removed the blanket but not the bed sheet, they only put a soaker sheet over it so it was a very hard last day with that smell. Quite bad, Chett...

Day 4
After this, time to go to the hotel. It was very unconfortable due to all the bandages, even with the donut pillow.
All the times I needed to move from one side to another was unconfortable, I think that don't try to move at all could be a good idea.

So with that in mind, the rest of the days until today was to step in bed, legs-opened (quite unconfortable to sleep, maybe the best way to sleep was in some kind of left tilted position with legs wide opened and a pillow over the knees), and walking a bit when my mother allowed me to do (I felt numb and pain on the left leg so I always needed attention to move from one side to another.

Try to walk a very bit with help every day is fine, but stand alone is difficult so be careful and ask for help.

Day 7 - Vaginal package out
Today the bandages went out and now I can move freely yaaaay  it's quite a lot of diference. Chett nurses told me that I got 6 inches so it was acceptable.
All the process of removing bandages and package was not painful, just many discomfort. Also with the same time the nurse inserted the ¿dilator? i was not sure, but it was weird and uncomfortable, but no pain at all.
Now I can eat all I want  Time to ask for some pizza, burgers... 

Tomorrow I will start with dilations, let's hope that there were no pain as the last days.

Besides that, I have a little worry. After the surgery I'm feeling my left arm (where the anesthesia and intravenously were) some kind of numb in two fingers. Also some little pain and discomfort came from some spots in the arm. Nurses said it could happen but... I'm a bit worried about what it could be, so i'm trying to move it as much as i can, without any success in reducing numb. It becomes better when I'm stand up. Any idea of what could it be?

I'll try to update this thread weekly. Thank you for asking for my health and see ya!

Quote from: TessB on October 24, 2017, 02:04:39 AM
Hi Lucy,

Hopefully your surgery went well. I'm on Chet's schedule for tomorrow (SRS + Tracheal shave). I'm also staying in the vertical suite. Let me know if you would like to meet up sometime. I also find it hard to get in contact with other Chet patients, so I thought I might as well register here and ran straight into your post . Wish you all the best!

Tess

Yes, one of the reasons of this posts is to find people who will be on this hotel too.

Unfortunately, I cannot go out the room yet, since I have the catheter, but we could stay in contact some way. Maybe some user may help us to exchange our emails privatelly to stay in contact?

Hope your surgery went well too!

Quote from: LucyTuring on October 30, 2017, 08:45:25 AM
Yes, one of the reasons of this posts is to find people who will be on this hotel too.

Unfortunately, I cannot go out the room yet, since I have the catheter, but we could stay in contact some way. Maybe some user may help us to exchange our emails privatelly to stay in contact?

Hope your surgery went well too!

Hi Lucy,

My surgery was last Wednesday (25 October) and I'm back in the hotel since Sunday. I guess the nurses came to visit me to remove the stiches from my tracheal shave after they removed your packing (around 12:30). My packing will be taken out Wednesday.

My experience was a little different. I recognize the constant pain from the first days, but I was actually fit enough to get through 21 episodes of series while I was in the clinic. Even played some games with my family during visitation hours while being there (we managed to stuff four visitors in the recovery room, I have pictures) and spent some time writing a blog on a Dutch forum. Even the recovery at the hotel has gone suprisingly well. Due to the size of my 'entourage' (we're with five), we had to book two rooms and I'm constantly moving between them. Although most time is of course spent lying down. I figured I could attach my cathether to my bathrobe and I'm currently thinking of ways to hide it when I get to wear normal clothes again.

Just send me a pm on Susans if you want to meet. I suppose Wednesday would be the earliest possibility (I want to ditch the packing first). I don't care to much about hauling around my cathether,  so lets just see where this is heading.

Quote from: TessB on October 30, 2017, 09:16:25 AM

Hi Lucy,

My surgery was last Wednesday (25 October) and I'm back in the hotel since Sunday. I guess the nurses came to visit me to remove the stiches from my tracheal shave after they removed your packing (around 12:30). My packing will be taken out Wednesday.

My experience was a little different. I recognize the constant pain from the first days, but I was actually fit enough to get through 21 episodes of series while I was in the clinic. Even played some games with my family during visitation hours while being there (we managed to stuff four visitors in the recovery room, I have pictures) and spent some time writing a blog on a Dutch forum. Even the recovery at the hotel has gone suprisingly well. Due to the size of my 'entourage' (we're with five), we had to book two rooms and I'm constantly moving between them. Although most time is of course spent lying down. I figured I could attach my cathether to my bathrobe and I'm currently thinking of ways to hide it when I get to wear normal clothes again.

Just send me a pm on Susans if you want to meet. I suppose Wednesday would be the earliest possibility (I want to ditch the packing first). I don't care to much about hauling around my cathether,  so lets just see where this is heading.

In the clinic I was always with my mobile chatting and I could watch some chapters of a random anime but most of the time sleeping hehe. I like to sleep hehe.

I cannot send a PM to you since we need more than 15 posts to be allowed to it. That's why I asked for some third's help, but well we could manage it anyway.

In the Vertical Suite I'm in the 14th floor, maybe we could made some brief visits from room to room?

Welcome to the other side. Glad your surgery went well.