Sorry I haven't posted in like 8 months. superduperluthor > ndtransdad > stonertransdad
This is what trans joy looks like.
Today is 26 days post-op and the last of my surgical tape fell off last night so I got my first look at my incisions in their entirety. I am still swollen in some areas, but I'm off ibuprofen completely and feeling great. This Friday my weight and arm restrictions are lifted and I can resume normal activities and I no longer have to do nipple bandages and ointment. My stamina has definitely taken a hit, but it's starting to come back. Being a stay-at-home dad to a chaotic gremlin of a toddler, I didn't realize how much wrangling him built up my stamina until I began doing it again in short increments after a couple of weeks post-op and I'd be wiped after an hour and have to go lay down. As of right now, I feel about 90% and that's just because of the remaining swelling and random bouts of tenderness from the nerves reconnecting and healing. All in all, the recovery went much smoother than I could have hoped for because I truly was expecting the pain to be an issue. Now I'm just enjoying daily moments of euphoria from simple things like feeling my shirt rub directly on my skin, the way a shirt I didn't like the fit of fits me now, not having to worry about if my binder or tape would show thru or outside a shirt. This is the most confidence I've ever had in my body and this is why I will say that gender-affirming care is lifesaving until I am blue in the face. I can finally look in the mirror and like what I see.
In this body, I am finally home.
