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I'm awake at 3am bc I'm trying to, like, come to terms w the fact that my top surgeon did keyhole instead of a normal peri like I'd thought he was gonna do and like, lowkey-getting-higher concerned abt being left w extra skin when the swelling goes down.

like, you put "periareolar" on the intake form, you ask him during your phone consult whether some of the tattoo over your heart (ish) would get cut off cuz "I know you take out skin from around the areola" (paraphrasing) (he just said it wouldn't be affected), you even start explaining the procedure you came in to get when he talks to you before surgery cuz he asked you why you're here and you misunderstood the question (he just wanted verbal confirmation that I knew I was getting top surgery. the irony of this interaction is not lost on me.) - how could this go unclarified?!

I mean I wanted my areolas trimmed down a bit which obviously didn't happen but the more I sit w this the more I feel like that's rly not the biggest thing I have to worry about, is it? I never wanted keyhole bc on top of not being able to resize those suckers, it's so hard to sculpt everything well w such restricted access and you aren't taking away any of the skin that previously comfortably housed, y'know, an entire boob and I never thought my skin elasticity there was that great and the scarring only going partway around the areola seems to kinda make it/the nip to look a bit folded over a lot of the times and- this is gonna eat me up inside, isn't it? bc I won't rly know where things stand for another few months.

what the hell am I supposed to do? what lengths would he be willing to go to that could possibly rectify this? the only way I can think to remedy extra skin is to trim that shit off, which would basically require another whole-ass surgery bc there's no existing point to work from. there's no seam to take in. it's not like he's gonna be willing to do that for free. not to mention it's a 12hr drive to his practice.

its one thing for a surgery to not turn out the way you'd hoped but for it to have been a different surgical procedure altogether??

it took my aunt fucking dying and my mom divvying up her life insurance payout be able to afford surgery. I have no more dead aunts to pull from.

I'd at the very least like to know why he opted to do keyhole instead of a normal peri.

#top surgery recovery #top surgery complications #periareolar #keyhole surgery #welp #whump #I'm fine #this is fine #i say areola(s) a lot in this

Can’t post on my normal social for ✨reasons✨ but they’re too aesthetically pretty to just live on my camera roll

i’m allowed to be vain sometimes, this body cost me a lot of money. happy two years post op 🥳

Did a lil pregnancy photo shoot because why the fuck not.

they/them

#trans pregnancy #nonbinary pregnancy #trans #nonbinary #22 weeks #periareolar #keyhole #dr medalie #dr medalie results #top surgery #3 years post op #they/them #self

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#graham answers #periareolar #hope u like it <333

Late update but I got my drains out last Monday! This picture is from Wednesday 5/12 marking my one-week post-op!

Still stuck in a compression vest for another week, but I can't wait to see how everything looks as the bruising goes down and I can finally live in my new body normally every day. ❤

#trans man #hrt #transgender #ftm #self #trans guy #queer #lgbtq #drmedalie #periareolar #top surgery

So my week’s been kinda crazy… I had a bad wave of dysphoria that prompted me to go top surgeon hunting. And I found a surgeon who claimed they scheduled consultations like a month out. In my grand scheme of transition related things that was totally fine bc I wasn’t planning on getting top surgery until like May anyways. Well its three days later and I had my consultation today at noon. I was super nervous and the front desk staff on the zoom call did a great job at just talking to me while we waited for the top surgeon to join the call. Dr. Blechman walked me through options for peri first since he thought I would be a good candidate for it, and he told me about di too just in case we had to move to that procedure day of. He was super nice and helpful and I honestly was really vibing with him (also turns out we graduated from the same fucking high school so like, small world) So the consultation went well and he was like “you’ll need to see our therapist to get a letter of approval since you aren’t seeing anyone currently” which is no problem, I was expecting that, and “you’ll get a call from someone in the office about insurance stuff and next steps to get you scheduled and stuff too sometime next week”. Well about three hours after that I got a call from the office who said theyve worked with my insurance before and with that letter from the therapist its 100% covered. Absolutely fuckin floored me. And then she also wanted to give me a rough timline so she said currently they were booking out til october for surgery. And I’d been kinda throwing the idea around of going home for thanksgiving anyway… and november is after october… and I told my mom that I could maybe get top surgery sooner than i’d planned and she said she’d be happy to have me home. So yeah, now I have a thirty minute consult with the therapist next week and a plan to schedule top surgery for the week of thanksgiving. The last couple days have been so mind bogglingly quick in terms of all this stuff so I just wanted to write a quick chain of events so I can remember down the line.

Anyway that was super long, I’m sorry. Props to Dr. Blechman and his team for making this super quick and blowing me away with their response times. I am super thankful that this all came together so quickly and painlessly. Here’s to hoping the waiting game is the hardest part of all of it.