Category: Along the Journey
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Gender Affirming Surgery – Recovery at Asclépiade
As mentioned in the previous blog there are two main phases for recovery while under the care of GrS Montreal. The first 2 days in the hospital (CMC) and the longer time at Asclépiade which is 6 days. I won’t be able to go through the details of each day, but this post will still Read more
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Gender Affirming Surgery – Early Recovery
The early days of recovery in Montreal are in some ways the easiest but with plenty of hard moments sprinkled in. I had my surgery on Monday so I would be in the hospital section of the center until Wednesday morning. This section has 24hr care with multiple nurses. They are constantly in to make Read more
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Gender Affirming Surgery – The Surgery
As you can imagine after the first few days after surgery, I haven’t been too excited about sitting up, to update the blog. There has been so much going on and I’ve captured a lot of it in my personal journal which is a habit I would suggest anyone going through the transition process adopt. Read more
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Gender Affirming Surgery – A Spouse’s Prospective
I’ve had many different waves of emotions during Brooke’s gender affirmation but none as strong as those related to her surgery. Getting the Appointment A few months ago, Brooklyn got the date for her bottom surgery. With the appointment came documents to read about the procedure and post care. As I sat down to read Read more
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Gender Affirming Surgery
I’m going to skip ahead in time to the now as this is an important part of my life. It’s also what has dominated my thoughts since the date for my surgery was selected. In a future post I may go into some of the details about how this all came to be. For now, Read more