Followup: Prostate cancer article
I wrote up the first draft of an article on prostate cancer and SRS. Please see GenderSong references pages. Most illustrations of the prostate are side view, because the relationship of the prostate...
View ArticleNon-gender surgery tomorrow
There is life outside of gender! Tomorrow, March 8, 2010, I will have an Advance® sling to correct a bladder problem that the urologist assures me arose from the prostate surgery I had in May, 2001....
View ArticleNo-Go on the Surgery
The surgery scheduled for today has been postponed. When I spoke to the surgeon before they were supposed to put me under, we discussed my cough. When I told him how much I was coughing, and how hard,...
View ArticleThe D-Word
It’s been thirteen months since my surgery; I’m still dilating daily, for 30 minutes or more, and twice daily on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Because of the prostate surgery, I still have an...
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Marriage Post-Operatively
I was interested in a blog post about transsexuals and marriage at enGender, Helen Boyd’s web site: what is it like for a couple going through transition? If I were still the man my wife married, this...
View ArticleHow I Responded to Estrogen
Several people have asked me at one time or another, What’s it like taking estrogen? Once I started writing, the story grew a little larger than I prefer for a blog post. In a nutshell, here’s what...
View ArticleA History of Understanding
There used to be a little quiz circulating among crossdressers and the transgender community: If there were a pill that would make your need to crossdress go away, would you take it? Would you take a...
View ArticleDifficult Decision
Because of the prostate cancer I had, I have an unusably short vagina. Up until the urethral sling surgery this spring, I had significant continence issues. If this sounds embarrassingly intimate, it...
View ArticleOuting Myself with a Purpose
I was walking at the mall this week with a woman I hadn’t spoken to before. In response to her question about my husband, I replied that my partner was a woman, and that we’d been together 36 years....
View ArticlePositive Emergency Room Experience
I have had urinary problems since the removal of my cancerous prostate. Yesterday the urinary problems got so bad that I couldn’t pee without pain, and because it was Friday, my urologist’s nurse told...
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