Post Op Check Up and Sharing the Beauty of Phoenix with Friends
Feb 9, 2006
Wednesday morning started out with our usual routine. I had a post-op appointment at Dr. M’s office later that morning. Yesterday, we went for an hour long walk in the morning in our B&B’s neighborhood which is near Paradise Valley. Later that day, we went shopping for a few hours at the shopping center in Scottsdale and that evening the group of us went out for an hour long walk with Amy. I over did the activity that day and my LP got sore and a bit more swollen after all that activity and the problem with hypersensitive nipples made things worst. I just went to bed after dinner when we got back to the B&B.
Jen went for a short walk while I got ready for today’s appointment. Once Jen was back from her walk and got ready, we headed over to Dr. Meltzer's office for my appointment. I check in with the receptionist. Jan, one of Amy’s friends was in the waiting room when we arrived. She just had a minor in office procedure done to correct a minor problem that developed post-op. We chatted for a while about whole bunch of stuff among them was how Amy was doing at Greenbaum. Debbie appeared and called me and we followed her into one of the exam rooms. We chatted for a short time and she handed me one of those black robes to change into while she went to get Dr. Meltzer. I just got the robe on when Dr. Meltzer came into the exam room with RN Lindsay and Jennifer who was in the patient care learning process. Dr. Meltzer was his usual cheerful self and we talked about cycling and I told him about my over activity from yesterday. When Debbie heard about what happened yesterday and she was surprised that ‘misseee’ careful did that. He rolled the exam chair back to have a look at my LP. It was swollen, slightly bruised and draining slightly, but overall my recovery was doing well and what one would expect at this point during the recovery process. We continued to talks about cycling and his trip to Cal Dream’ in April 2006. Dr. M was ready to move on to his next patient until Lindsay and I reminded him to remove the BA sutures under my areola. RN Lindsay and Dr. Meltzer started to peel back the top square of tape covering the areola to expose the free ends of the suture. Next, he asked Lindsay for a forceps and Dr. Meltzer slowly pulled the free end of the suture out. This was more painful than I expected. Once both sutures were removed, Lindsay and Dr. Meltzer trimmed off the top half of the square tape on both sides. Lindsay told me to leave the bottom half on to protect the incision and the tape should fall of in time. There was just enough time for one picture of me with Dr. Meltzer and Lindsay before he went on to his next patient. Lindsay went over the breast massage routine with me again and had my personal boobie massager do this too and a few more post-op instructions and we were done. Lindsay and Jennifer left the exam room and I changed out of the robe and back into my clothes. I wanted to say goodbye to Carole, pass on our well wishes and a quick photo. As we were leaving her office Linda and Nikki passed by and I stopped her for a quick photo.
It was time to head back to Greenbaum with Jan to visit with Amy and see how she was doing. All of us drove over to Greenbaum to drop off Jan. Jan has been staying with Amy during most of this week. Jan has been Amy’s primary care taker during her time at Greenbaum.
Jen and I had a lunch date with Erika and Jo at the Sanctuary in Paradise Valley. Erika is a retired surgeon from Switzerland and her wife is an anesthesiologist. Erika had her VAG done by Dr. Meltzer during the last week of January. She met Dr. Meltzer during the HBIGDA meeting in Italy last year and did a consultation with him during that time. It turns out a large number of doctors go to Dr. Meltzer for their surgery. We shared a wonderful lunch with conversation ranging from T* stuff to world politics. Erika’s wife Jo commented on the great number of surgeons that she had worked with over the years and Dr. Meltzer is a rarity due to his true love for what he does, caring and humanity. She had total confidence in his team, surgical skills and technique. Many of the surgeons Jo worked with are surgeons for ego, status or momentary rewards, she found Dr. Meltzer so different from the other surgeons she worked with during her career. We all had a wonderful time together and took a few pictures before we parted.
When we arrived at the Sanctuary Spa, AUDI was doing a press release of their new Q7 SUV. It’s an AUDI variant of the Porsche Cayenne or VW Tourage. Jen and I spent a few moments looks at the Q7 and display. No AUDI folks were there at the time, but the display and press schedule was interesting. All this reminds me of how the manufactures wine and dines the press to get a positive review for their new product and advertising revenue. Once were done with this exhibit, Jen and I headed over to my sis home in Phoenix.
We were greeted with warm and friendly soft hugs before heading over to South Phoenix Mountain Park. This is one of the highest places in Phoenix and the view from top of this mountain was stunning. The drive took us thru one of the poorest districts in Phoenix, such a contrast to places like Scottsdale or Paradise Valley. My sis in Phoenix shared a Michael Franks CD with us during our drive and listening to this brought back many memories from my youth. When we arrived, there were a number of cyclists who pedaled to the top starting from the parking lot. The beautiful long and winding road to the top was several miles long. I have always enjoyed the beauty of the desert environment. Once we were parked at the top of South Phoenix Mountain, there was several Native American's selling jewelry. I looked over what their offerings and purchased a few items. The three of us walked over to the edge of the parking lot to enjoy the stunning view Phoenix. Our next stop was a Ranada that was located a short distance from the parking lot. We parked the car off the side of the road and hiked a short trail out to this Ranada which was built during, “The New Deal Era”. It was a brick and stone structure that offered a nice quiet shelter from the hot Phoenix sun. Sis was thoughtful enough to bring a nice foam cushion for me to sit on. It was nice to spent quiet time together in this beautiful desert environment. With late in the afternoon approaching, it was time for us to head back before rush hour traffic clogs up the roads towards home. During our drive home, Jan called to let us know Amy’s grand opening was not far away. We drove back to my sis in Phoenix’s home and dropped her off with warm goodbyes.
We headed back to the B&B for a short while before going over to Greenbaum. By the time we arrived at Amy’s room, her grand opening was done and she was happy and relieved that it was over. This was a big event in Amy’s life and we shared our memories of this same event with her. We spent the rest of that early evening with Amy and Jan entertaining her with our humor. These were joyful and happy times we shared together in Amy’s room. Amy’s dinner arrived and we decided it was time for us to do the same. I wanted to try the roasted chicken place on Scottsdale road, but we ended up at RA-Japanese restaurant. During our dinner conversation, Jan and I got into a conversation about wave theory, Maxwell’s Demon, optics and a bunch of other physics related topics. We were both surprise that we ended up talking about these topics and that was when I learned Jan is a senior scientist who works at JPL and Jan of my life long interest in physics. I felt bad for leaving Jen out of our conversation and moved on to other subjects. After our dinner, some one decided to crank up the music (NOISE) which made conversation really difficult. We asked for the bill and headed back to visit Amy. She had just finished dinner and was not feeling well after her meal, it was a case of nausea gettng worst.
It was time for us to head back to the B&B. The time has come for me to have a date with my plastic boy friends (dilate). Almost a week has passed since my last date and I’m healed well enough to try. I got ready for the chore and the main pain was at the bottom of my revised labia where a large number of sutures were pulling. The VAG itself felt pretty much the same as before. Number 2 went OK and number 3 was a bit more difficult with more pain involved, but do-able. I had no motivation to do number 4. Dilating post labiaplasty was not that bad overall. It was still quite swollen and if I had to do this a few days before, it would have been more difficult and painful. Being able to put off this chore for a week or so does make a difference in the post labiaplasty recovery process. I have kept my vulva as clean as possible by changing pads after every bathroom visit, rinsing with the sitz bottle when possible no undies when home and coating the suture lines with Bacitracin twice daily. There are the boobie exercises done daily and my post op meds of Arnica, acidophilus, Colace and Motrin as needed. This will be the routine for the next week or so.
I called Amy after my date to see how she was doing with her first full day of dilating. She did OK with the chore, but her nausea was getting worst. We will visit her in tomorrow.
This has been a very rewarding and eventful day. Its day 6 post op and I’m feeling and doing very well considering all that went on. I’m pretty sure my overall good health and fitness level had much to do with my speedy recovery. I’m surprised at how well and good I feel at this point during the recovery process.
Wednesday morning started out with our usual routine. I had a post-op appointment at Dr. M’s office later that morning. Yesterday, we went for an hour long walk in the morning in our B&B’s neighborhood which is near Paradise Valley. Later that day, we went shopping for a few hours at the shopping center in Scottsdale and that evening the group of us went out for an hour long walk with Amy. I over did the activity that day and my LP got sore and a bit more swollen after all that activity and the problem with hypersensitive nipples made things worst. I just went to bed after dinner when we got back to the B&B.
Jen went for a short walk while I got ready for today’s appointment. Once Jen was back from her walk and got ready, we headed over to Dr. Meltzer's office for my appointment. I check in with the receptionist. Jan, one of Amy’s friends was in the waiting room when we arrived. She just had a minor in office procedure done to correct a minor problem that developed post-op. We chatted for a while about whole bunch of stuff among them was how Amy was doing at Greenbaum. Debbie appeared and called me and we followed her into one of the exam rooms. We chatted for a short time and she handed me one of those black robes to change into while she went to get Dr. Meltzer. I just got the robe on when Dr. Meltzer came into the exam room with RN Lindsay and Jennifer who was in the patient care learning process. Dr. Meltzer was his usual cheerful self and we talked about cycling and I told him about my over activity from yesterday. When Debbie heard about what happened yesterday and she was surprised that ‘misseee’ careful did that. He rolled the exam chair back to have a look at my LP. It was swollen, slightly bruised and draining slightly, but overall my recovery was doing well and what one would expect at this point during the recovery process. We continued to talks about cycling and his trip to Cal Dream’ in April 2006. Dr. M was ready to move on to his next patient until Lindsay and I reminded him to remove the BA sutures under my areola. RN Lindsay and Dr. Meltzer started to peel back the top square of tape covering the areola to expose the free ends of the suture. Next, he asked Lindsay for a forceps and Dr. Meltzer slowly pulled the free end of the suture out. This was more painful than I expected. Once both sutures were removed, Lindsay and Dr. Meltzer trimmed off the top half of the square tape on both sides. Lindsay told me to leave the bottom half on to protect the incision and the tape should fall of in time. There was just enough time for one picture of me with Dr. Meltzer and Lindsay before he went on to his next patient. Lindsay went over the breast massage routine with me again and had my personal boobie massager do this too and a few more post-op instructions and we were done. Lindsay and Jennifer left the exam room and I changed out of the robe and back into my clothes. I wanted to say goodbye to Carole, pass on our well wishes and a quick photo. As we were leaving her office Linda and Nikki passed by and I stopped her for a quick photo.
It was time to head back to Greenbaum with Jan to visit with Amy and see how she was doing. All of us drove over to Greenbaum to drop off Jan. Jan has been staying with Amy during most of this week. Jan has been Amy’s primary care taker during her time at Greenbaum.
Jen and I had a lunch date with Erika and Jo at the Sanctuary in Paradise Valley. Erika is a retired surgeon from Switzerland and her wife is an anesthesiologist. Erika had her VAG done by Dr. Meltzer during the last week of January. She met Dr. Meltzer during the HBIGDA meeting in Italy last year and did a consultation with him during that time. It turns out a large number of doctors go to Dr. Meltzer for their surgery. We shared a wonderful lunch with conversation ranging from T* stuff to world politics. Erika’s wife Jo commented on the great number of surgeons that she had worked with over the years and Dr. Meltzer is a rarity due to his true love for what he does, caring and humanity. She had total confidence in his team, surgical skills and technique. Many of the surgeons Jo worked with are surgeons for ego, status or momentary rewards, she found Dr. Meltzer so different from the other surgeons she worked with during her career. We all had a wonderful time together and took a few pictures before we parted.
When we arrived at the Sanctuary Spa, AUDI was doing a press release of their new Q7 SUV. It’s an AUDI variant of the Porsche Cayenne or VW Tourage. Jen and I spent a few moments looks at the Q7 and display. No AUDI folks were there at the time, but the display and press schedule was interesting. All this reminds me of how the manufactures wine and dines the press to get a positive review for their new product and advertising revenue. Once were done with this exhibit, Jen and I headed over to my sis home in Phoenix.
We were greeted with warm and friendly soft hugs before heading over to South Phoenix Mountain Park. This is one of the highest places in Phoenix and the view from top of this mountain was stunning. The drive took us thru one of the poorest districts in Phoenix, such a contrast to places like Scottsdale or Paradise Valley. My sis in Phoenix shared a Michael Franks CD with us during our drive and listening to this brought back many memories from my youth. When we arrived, there were a number of cyclists who pedaled to the top starting from the parking lot. The beautiful long and winding road to the top was several miles long. I have always enjoyed the beauty of the desert environment. Once we were parked at the top of South Phoenix Mountain, there was several Native American's selling jewelry. I looked over what their offerings and purchased a few items. The three of us walked over to the edge of the parking lot to enjoy the stunning view Phoenix. Our next stop was a Ranada that was located a short distance from the parking lot. We parked the car off the side of the road and hiked a short trail out to this Ranada which was built during, “The New Deal Era”. It was a brick and stone structure that offered a nice quiet shelter from the hot Phoenix sun. Sis was thoughtful enough to bring a nice foam cushion for me to sit on. It was nice to spent quiet time together in this beautiful desert environment. With late in the afternoon approaching, it was time for us to head back before rush hour traffic clogs up the roads towards home. During our drive home, Jan called to let us know Amy’s grand opening was not far away. We drove back to my sis in Phoenix’s home and dropped her off with warm goodbyes.
We headed back to the B&B for a short while before going over to Greenbaum. By the time we arrived at Amy’s room, her grand opening was done and she was happy and relieved that it was over. This was a big event in Amy’s life and we shared our memories of this same event with her. We spent the rest of that early evening with Amy and Jan entertaining her with our humor. These were joyful and happy times we shared together in Amy’s room. Amy’s dinner arrived and we decided it was time for us to do the same. I wanted to try the roasted chicken place on Scottsdale road, but we ended up at RA-Japanese restaurant. During our dinner conversation, Jan and I got into a conversation about wave theory, Maxwell’s Demon, optics and a bunch of other physics related topics. We were both surprise that we ended up talking about these topics and that was when I learned Jan is a senior scientist who works at JPL and Jan of my life long interest in physics. I felt bad for leaving Jen out of our conversation and moved on to other subjects. After our dinner, some one decided to crank up the music (NOISE) which made conversation really difficult. We asked for the bill and headed back to visit Amy. She had just finished dinner and was not feeling well after her meal, it was a case of nausea gettng worst.
It was time for us to head back to the B&B. The time has come for me to have a date with my plastic boy friends (dilate). Almost a week has passed since my last date and I’m healed well enough to try. I got ready for the chore and the main pain was at the bottom of my revised labia where a large number of sutures were pulling. The VAG itself felt pretty much the same as before. Number 2 went OK and number 3 was a bit more difficult with more pain involved, but do-able. I had no motivation to do number 4. Dilating post labiaplasty was not that bad overall. It was still quite swollen and if I had to do this a few days before, it would have been more difficult and painful. Being able to put off this chore for a week or so does make a difference in the post labiaplasty recovery process. I have kept my vulva as clean as possible by changing pads after every bathroom visit, rinsing with the sitz bottle when possible no undies when home and coating the suture lines with Bacitracin twice daily. There are the boobie exercises done daily and my post op meds of Arnica, acidophilus, Colace and Motrin as needed. This will be the routine for the next week or so.
I called Amy after my date to see how she was doing with her first full day of dilating. She did OK with the chore, but her nausea was getting worst. We will visit her in tomorrow.
This has been a very rewarding and eventful day. Its day 6 post op and I’m feeling and doing very well considering all that went on. I’m pretty sure my overall good health and fitness level had much to do with my speedy recovery. I’m surprised at how well and good I feel at this point during the recovery process.
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