#post-op

[eclectic-ways]

Do your best not to judge people over what you currently see. Just because someone can carry the burden doesn’t mean it’s not heavy. Some people barely show what they go through and have been through. There is usually the other side of the mountain looking like the opposite.

When someone glows up all of a sudden, don’t question it. Just shut the fuck up and celebrate it with them. Be with them. You have no idea. That glow-up is a hard earned mask and costume that tend to drop every now and then.

Some masks and costumes of people are part of their true identity. They are not fake though it’s faked to make it, to have that persona of you unleash and revealed even if you don’t feel like it at all at the time being.

[surkeart]

1 year ago I had topsurgery. Gender-affirming care saved my life! To celebrate i'm sharing you more pages from my comic CISN'T! Throwback to last spring. You can get CISN’T digitally from surkea.itch.io or physically once I manage to sell stuff online. [DO NOT REPOST!]

[cyberpunkboytoy]

read from right-to-left

After slaving over this comic for ~2 years, I've decided I'm not gonna finish the last few pages I had planned and that this is fine enough. I'm simply too impatient to show it off. (Comics take me so fucking long, man)

This is a scene that takes place during chapter 3 of Terminal Status, although it's going to end up looking a bit different in the actual game. Still, I love this conversation and found myself wanting to draw it. (Spoilers: Post-Op and Concuss end up agreeing to fake-date after this, and it's sooo funny. They hate each other.)

Image IDs are in alt text 👍

[thotsoflore]

So I know this is just a shot in the dark but if there's anybody that's had any kind of experience with Toby Meltzer in Arizona for vaginoplasty would you be willing to DM me with your experience and whether or not he's worth going to? I'm just having very little luck finding accounts online and given how long he's been in the business I'm kind of concerned.

I've been planning to go to OHSU for GRS but it's getting to the point where I'm getting very concerned about how far out they're scheduled and their tendency to reschedule appointments with little notice. So I'm doing my best to find alternatives just in case.

[ravensarca]

Here I am 7 weeks post-op and back out on a desert trail.

[spoons-on-empty]

i've recently had surgery and i need to pass along three vital pieces of advice (assuming you have similar post op instructions)

1. ocean spray apple juice. not mott's. i cannot emphasize this enough, it's so much better

2. if you can have apple juice you can almost certainly have apple cider for the ✨autumn vibes✨ (get the ones made from honey crisp apples, trust me on this)

3. buy a cane. oh my gosh buy a cane. didn't think i needed one because my main issue was getting out of bed, but here's the thing YOU CAN USE THE CANE TO PUSH OFF THE WALL YOURE LEANING ON! 100,000% easier to get up that way, its incredible. you can move all the muscle work to your arms and off your stomach/knees/legs

4. if your fridge is far from where you're sleeping during recovery, consider buying a mini fridge (my roommate found mine at a yard sale for $10) and maybe bring your tea kettle to wherever you sleep if you like tea. its helped me so so much

5. didn't do this but i wish i did- take your least favorite sweater (or buy one at a thrift store for like $2) and cut off one of the arms just above your elbow, cause otherwise you can't wear a sweater if they put the iv in your elbow and hospitals are damn cold

6. buy a button up pajama top!!! (or if you're crafty you could try altering your current pjs to have buttons) much easier to get dressed after if putting your arms above your head is difficult l. ALSO makes it way easier for doctors to place things like an ekg overnight and not make you freeze to death with it pulling down your shirt. also ALSO doctors can do exams on your stomach without your whole chest being on display if that's a thing you want to avoid. overall one of the best decisions i made and it only cost me $5

7. this is a stupid one but i had assumed hospital rooms wouldn't let me use the outlets in case they needed them, but they totally did. i charged my phone and used my heating pad (highly recommend investing in one if you haven't so far) all night and it was great

[contentment-of-cats]

Home

I was discharged yesterday evening and friends picked me up. You don't really get good rest in a hospital. especially not when there's a person in the room next door who needs a mental health bed. The pain is better today, and I've had so much sleep. I have to do my respiratory therapy once per hour with a little inhaler that moves a cylinder, and I get on the stationary bike every two hours for 15 minutes.

I have four big holes in my body and while I went in with one IV placement, I came out with three. The surgical report was encouraging, but I lost five more lymph nodes. Still waiting for the pathology on those.

The kitties nag at me every time I get out of bed. My sitters told me that Moki had a lot to say about my absence, too. He has definite separation anxiety because after all his first mom never came home from the hospital. He seemed okay with a man as a sitter, but definitely not friendly or flirtatious as he is with women. He stayed out of reach, the tip of his tail flicking and looking stern.

The pain is something else, especially when I sneezed earlier and I could swear I saw up God's robe. The kitties are being very gentle with me.

[blurryufo]

Post-Op - Fox Rinne (on The Offing)