I'm having surgery on Monday for my transition which I've been wanting to have since I started hormones. I'm a bit worried because of being on sublocade and that affecting pain relief but they told me they'll take that into account post operatively and make sure that I won't be left in loads of pain.
After this, I'm basically done with my transition unless I happen to win the lottery. The last surgery I'd want to do costs like $80,000 which is unaffordable for me but I don't mind heaps because I don't feel like I really need it that much. I'm having this surgery because it'll actually fix some problems that I've been having happen and mean I can stop taking a medication I've been on for 2 years to prevent the issue from arising, so this is just a permanent solution to that coming up. But I'll be pretty content after this with what I've done, I don't have a massive amount of dysphoria about what the last surgery would do for me because no one day to day would know that I haven't had that surgery. Same with this one, but the difference is that I know and it makes a difference to me knowing that I'll never have to ever worry about those problems caused by not having the surgery will ever come up again in the future.
Plus, it's super cheap as far as surgery goes. I'm doing it privately, so the total cost is around $2000. I could have gone public and I'd have had it around the same time if I went on the waitlist when the issues first started happening, but then I'd not have been able to choose my surgeon.
The one funny thing though is that my surgeon has asked me to shave my stomach before the surgery because she's noticed that trans men are very hairy, and she isn't very good at doing it herself. So I need to remember to pick up some razors today and do that tomorrow evening after I have a shower. They did it to me when I got appendicitis as well, I woke up being like 'hey, where did my stomach hair go? And why is a patch of hair on my leg missing?'