Countdown to Surgery & Life after Surgery

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Six Months?

Going by the day counter I just passed my half-year vaginoplasty anniversary. However, since February doesn't have a 30th I'm not sure when the six-month anniversary happens. In any case, the time has seemed to fly by. So much has happened, but in many ways very little has really happened. Truly, vaginoplasty is a huge step in the life of a transgirl but it's only one step of many and certainly not an end point. The step of going full time, for me, will always be the most important step, the day I was able to start living life on my terms, as the me I know myself to be. Going full time was a public event: memos were sent out, an information meeting was held, new identification was generated; everyone knew. Vaginoplasty was a private event; I never told anyone directly what I was doing. I was operated on, recuperated for several weeks, and then returned to work. Life went on. Birthdays were celebrated. The holidays came and went. I continued healing. Six weeks ago I had my labiaplasty and breast augmentation and started the healing process all over again, this time hurting both on top and on bottom. Again, I kept this quiet. Basically, I'm really glad to have all of this in the past. With these out of the way, from here on out it's just life.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

"To be no one but yourself - in a world which is doing
its best night and day, to make you everybody but
yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any
human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

e.e. cummings