Tag: Surgery

After four weeks of being off Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and a day of fasting and cleansing my bowels and a night of emptying my bladder, I arrived at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hills, PA for surgery prep. It was pretty much what you’d expect. Remove all jewelry and put...

Before receiving gender-affirming surgery, multiple documentational and medical boxes must be checked. I prepped for this by reviewing a step-by-step timeline of top surgery approval, yet I still found myself blindsided by new, unexpected requirements. At times, every step completed spawned two new ...

On June 1st, 2023, I received a double-incision, bilateral mastectomy with no nipple grafts from Dr. Lawrence Iteld, a private plastic surgeon, at the 900 N. Michigan Surgical Center here in Chicago, Illinois. In my last entry in this series, I explained what motivated my choice to undergo g...

OnFebruary 10, 1993, Wanda Sutton gave birth to a baby boy, Tavish, in Atlanta, Georgia. Unfortunately, Wanda struggled with schizophrenia and had already lost custody of her three older children. At just weeks old, Tavish was taken by the Department of Family and Children Services and placed in ...

Welcome to the wacky world of surgery prep, where cleanliness is next to scalpel-iness! In the bustling corridors of hospitals, amidst the beeping machines and frantic nurses, there’s a scene straight out of a comedy sketch: the hygiene rituals of medical personnel, especially our beloved doct...

I was due a medication review yesterday afternoon—I’m on a lot of medication for my physical and mental health. It was to be a phone call appointment at 4pm. (Well, they say 4pm but to cover their own backs, they then say it can be any time in the afternoon….) The phone...

The consensus in the late nineteenth century till the eight decades that followed, was that an extensive and aggressive removal of the breasts in a patient of breast cancer was life-saving. No matter the size of the tumor, the whole breast would be taken out along with the one lying on the opposi...

Saturday, October 29, 2022 was the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day — a day designed to encourage people to safely dispose of unused prescription medications to reduce chances of misuse and addiction. But this is an issue worth talking about the rest of the year t...