Bangkok log part 3
Today as the ninja nurses were washing me they noticed a small portion of my bandages had pulled away. They called in a doctor to take a look at it and it turns out the bandages used contain the dreaded adhesive that I am allergic to. Which would explain the itching I have been feeling for a while now. Dr. Pichet will be by in a few hours so I just need to hold out till then.
Dr. Pichet was here to see me a bit ago, the bandages will come off tomorrow. If this last time I tried to walk is any indication, I will have no problems peeing. As I felt like I had to pee so much it would blow the catheter out.
It’s now Sunday at 6:20am, this is it, the day the bandages come off. I can’t wait. Last night the nurse gave me some sleeping pills. No idea what they were, but damn they knocked my ass out. I should be getting pill time soon and breakfast as well. I’ve never been one to eat a lot, and being here is no exception.
It is now 10am Bangkok time, and at this point the bandages have not yet been removed, however I feel I should say a little about my over all impression as well as my choice to to to Dr. Pichet.
For many years, starting in 1999 I had started looking in to various doctors to have this surgery preformed by. I know that seems a long time considering I went full time in 2005, despite understanding fully in 1982 that I was in fact transsexual. Over the course of the years I have read many testimonials, individual web-pages, and blogs on various doctors. By 2006 I was down to just a handful of surgeons, and began to sort out what it was in the end that was to be important to me. I was told there are three primary aspects to consider with srs (grs if you prefer); depth, ascetics, ans sensitivity. There is a fourth but people have told me it should not matter as this is a big deal, and price is not that important. As a person that live on jack shit, I can tell you price does matter. I for one am not about to whore myself out in any way to have had some sugar-daddy pay for this. This is for me, and me alone. It is something I wanted for myself, and I for one am no cum dumpster nor am I someone that has any desire to be kept. Yes I had a good job once that would have afforded me to spend more on this but that was in another life.
I came to the conclusion the American and Canadian doctors though good were going to remain to expensive and thus out of the running. So I turned to the list of over seas doctors. I sent emails out asking each a few questions, explaining my situation and that surgery was some point in the future, but not right away. I also asked if I could see photos of their work, if that was okay. I do understand this is a very personal and private undertaking. Each doctor was happy to oblige me and sent images and such, however Dr. Pichet was the only one who saw fit to send photos in series, from when the bandages came off, 1 week later, 2 weeks later, 6 months later, and a year later. This honesty and desire for me to understand the different stages of healing and his honesty in explaining the factors that can limit the over all out come really impressed me, and I began to focus more on him as my choice. I read some reviews that spoke of dissatisfaction with his work, mostly revolving around depth. However people spoke of his staff being nice, and Dr. Pichet as someone that really cared.
I had a few more email exchanges with him and by September of 2007 I was settled and booked my surgery with him for May the 7th of 2008, as by that time I would be out of school for the summer.
On May 4th I boarded the plane and the familiar. When I arrived on the 6th of May I met Dr. Pichet for the first time at his office. He told me more about the surgery and went over a slide presentation of the surgery and healing. My last two entries contain some details about the days, so I won’t get in to them.
So at this point without seeing the end results and just my interactions with Dr. Pichet and his staff I would more then willingly recommend him to anyone for surgery. As of writing this Helen and I have been talking about trying to sort things out for her to come here to Dr. Pichet in the near future for surgery. Hell if that’s not a recommendation, even my girlfriend is now looking seriously in to coming to see Dr. Pichet.
That said I still need to see what is under the bandages, its like fricking Christmas. I could so go for a candy cane.
12:30pm, the bandage are now off, and the doctor has left. There is a lot of swelling, and the labia may be in need of a revision, but we have to wait for the swelling to go down. Helen says at this point in time with the swelling and rash from the bandages it looks more like boiled kidney then anything else. Which is a good way to put what the photos of the bandage removal photos I saw looked like. I’ll give it a week or two till I decide how it all looks, but for now I’m just really glad to have the bandages off.
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