I find myself discouraged with the world, whether the politics and war in Ukraine, or the politics here at home where I appear to be living in Ray Bradbury’s fahrenheit 451 with the conservatives defining reality by objecting to that which they don’t like. Even going so far as to impose a life sentence in…… Continue reading Winter
Category: Medicine
Seems Like Life Just Goes On
Last fall wasn’t ideal. With a bad side effect from the medicine benztropine, confusion and more, I ended up losing time from November through March. I have very few memories from that time. It took until March for them to identify that I needed to stop the medication. The confusion which had take hold in…… Continue reading Seems Like Life Just Goes On
Covid and other things
I’m sorry I haven’t posted recently. This is good for me, so I’m trying to hold up my end of the bargain. This is mostly about medical things. But there’s other pieces plus the odd bit of this and that. I had a bad run this last winter. I discovered that benzopropene is not a…… Continue reading Covid and other things
Weed all grown up
Some of you may wonder how the pot turned out. It turns out that I’m not a great judge so I used a friend and he declared it pretty good. So I must have done something right. The end game of growing pot is mostly waiting for all the buds to bud, which takes many…… Continue reading Weed all grown up
Bio Sex and Reality
Drives me really nuts. There are all these people who ask these questions that include the terms biological female or male as if it were a real thing. I thought I’d get it off my mind along with some information about genes and get to sleep. As an added plus I can cut and paste…… Continue reading Bio Sex and Reality
Transition and GRS work well
A question that appears fairly often on Quora is about whether people regret transition and in particular GCS. The question is a good one from a lay viewpoint since even a naive knowledge realizes that such surgery is largely irreversible. The focus is, like many of these questions, on the MtF transitioner, ignoring FtM. FtM…… Continue reading Transition and GRS work well
Revision surgery +~3 weeks
Things are going fine as long as I don’t push too much. Over enthusiasm is not a good idea, not disastrous, but not the best course of action. Dilation is fine with the 1.25″ dilator going in fine and the 1.375″ going most of the way or possibly all the way in. I won’t go…… Continue reading Revision surgery +~3 weeks
Revision Surgery Update 10/13
Not a great deal to say. I went to see the surgeon about a week ago. Everything way healing normally. I’ve passed that early stage of aches and pains, and I can now go back to things like ibuprofen or naproxen for my odd attacks of joint pain. I had some minor feedback from the…… Continue reading Revision Surgery Update 10/13
SRS – Revision – October 2017
I originally talked with my surgeon about having developed a tight spot around eighteen months ago. At the time his advice was to step up on dilation and to use my thumb to put pressure on the scar “ring” that had formed. Unfortunately, nothing I did seemed to make any difference. This was complicated by…… Continue reading SRS – Revision – October 2017
Anti Drama
It’s Sunday evening and I’ve had the last solid food before surgery. Tomorrow is about having a liquid diet interspersed with powerful antibiotics meant to kill every microbe in my gut and other powerful bactericides to kill those on my body. All of which ends with a power, well, I’ll leave the last to your…… Continue reading Anti Drama
My Gifted Life 