Countdown to Surgery & Life after Surgery

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Some Present Happenings

The countdown timer is counting towards August 30, 7:30am. One of the preparations for GRS is "genital hair removal". To put it bluntly, the hair on the penile shaft and most of the hair on the scrotum needs to be removed because they'd end up inside and you really don't want hair growing out of your vagina. The two options are lasar and electrolysis. I've opted for electrolysis because I have a wonderful electrologist and we have a great relationship that goes beyond customer to friend. Because the logistics would be difficult I'm not doing novacaine shots. Instead I'm doing the best that I can with LMX5. There's no other way to put this except IT HURTS!!! It took about five hours to clear the entire area the first time and about an hour to clear it a second time. I had hoped that tonight we'd have it cleared the third (and last) time but there was more regrowth than we could finish in the time we had. Bottom line, I need to go back one more time to finish it off. Damn!

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