Inversion is a lot quicker than types that use more extensive grafting

I was shocked about the time too, I have no idea how the surgeon gets the time that low.

The staff felt similar amazement and talked about how important reducing time under anesthesia is, that risks go up the longer the patient is under and so on. Apparently the surgeon’s top-surgery times are also very low, he works quickly.

Even with the short surgery time, I ended up with numbness in one of my arms from being unconscious and my arm being in the wrong position for too long. The tingling and numbness lasted a day or two before going away, but that was unnerving.

aw, thank you! And not as far as I know or remember - I’m pretty sober and alert when I wake up from anaesthesia - I also usually have no headaches or confusion like can be common for others, and that was true this time too.

Did you say anything silly when you were waking up from surgery?

Surgical tech of roughly a decade, here: This almost never happens. Of the thousands of patients I’ve seen wake from anesthesia, exactly 3 of them so far woke up saying funny/weird shit. Two of them were WAY over the top hilariously thankful; and one was completely convinced that we were bullshitting him when we told him his surgery was over and that he was just waking up. He had zero recollection of being unconscious at all: from his perspective, we rolled him into the OR, had him shuffle from his gurney to the OR bed, then immediately shoved him back onto the gurney while saying ‘it’s all done!’. He was a little more receptive to it once he saw the sutures, lol.

The vast majority of people either want to stay asleep, or they wake up kicking and punching.

The information I had generally was that a vaginoplasty takes between 4 - 6 hours here, and in the past could take 8+ hours to complete.

Apparently this is a really good surgeon and hospital, I was shocked they got it done in 3 hours. I’m not sure how typical that is, but I heard from one of the staff that they had make major advancements in the past few years that enabled a much faster surgery. I would love to have more details, but I don’t yet unfortunately.

I’m not sure re passing time - I brought movies, audiobooks, and my laptop so I can mess around on Lemmy like right now 😉

So we’ll see, but right now it’s also really easy to just close my eyes and spend time drifting and coming in and out of sleep.

lol, I have so much work to do once I’ve healed, but in terms of what a vaginoplasty unlocks for me, I definitely look forward to swimming and feeling right / fitting better in my clothes.