February 9, Stage 1 +1 days
February 16, Stage 1 +8 days
Urethra-in-arm first look
February 23, Stage 1 +15 days
Urethra-in-arm doesn't feel right, "doing better every day!"
February 24, Stage 1 +16 days
Things she "didn't know" before having phalloplasty
February 26, Stage 1 +18 days
"All my surgeries!"
February 28, Stage 1 +20 days
"Things I can no longer do on my own"
March 8, Stage 1 +4 weeks
"Some interesting facts that I didn't even know … I am only 20% healed, that to me was absolutely mind-blowing, I thought for sure I would be more healed by now."
March 30, Stage 1 +7 weeks
Urethra-in-arm won't flush, loud pop, "immediately I'm keeled over in pain".
April 2, Stage 1 +7.5 weeks
"Having little pockets of fluid come in my arm"
April 22, Stage 1 +10 weeks
"Started having really horrible pain moving my thumb"
April 29, Stage 1 +11 weeks
"What am I going to say in a year's time?"
May 18, Stage 1 +15 weeks
"13 days is all I have left with a part that I was born with" - that TIFs can't bring themselves to say "vagina" is horrifying to me.
June 3, Stage 2 +3 days
"Everything is going really well actually!"
June 7, Stage 2 +7 days, Skin graft
June 9, Stage 2 +9 days, Skin graft +2 days
"Since my surgery I've had nothing but compliments on my new phallus."
June 14, Stage 2 +2 weeks
"Got some news from my surgeon that I wasn't expecting … he doesn't want me to leave" the hospital.
June 25, Stage 2 +3.5 weeks
Morning routine with urine-bag handling.
July 5, Stage 2 +5 weeks
"Things I miss and cannot do due to having phalloplasty … being able to sit and not be uncomfortable."
July 16, Stage 2 +6.5 weeks
Horrifying sunburn on donor arm, cannot bend over.
August 12, Stage 2 +10.5 weeks
"I've been pretty lucky with my journey with phalloplasty … but I have been struggling big time with UTIs". Featuring a 3-week-old, drug-resistant infection.
August 24, Stage 2 +12 weeks
"I'm not making videos anymore … now it's time for me to move on and go on to this next step of my life."
November 11, Stage 2 +5 months
A fistula appears! "I will need two follow-up surgeries … 18 months of surgeries ahead of me."
November 13, Stage 2 +5 months
"I got a catheter May 31st and I have never lived my life without one since."
November 24, Stage 2 +6 months
A stricture appears! "I need … a complete rebuild of my urethra."
November 27, Stage 2 +6 months
"They took [the catheter] out and everything was great for about 12 hours … and then I woke up the next day … and I'm pushing and I'm pushing and I'm pushing and nothing is coming out."
December 9, Urethroplasty
"They noticed … I did not have a viable urethra at all, they had to rebuild it from scratch."
December 10, Urethroplasty +1 day
"I was supposed to be released from the hospital today, unfortunately that didn't happen because as soon as I got to the hospital I contracted two infections."
December 17, Urethroplasty +8 days
"I am just in constant pain,
constant pain."