Graft Healing

Local time: Thursday, 3.46pm

Just returned from a checkup with Dr Suporn. He was happy with the return of the dilation depth, and stressed that if it doesn't hurt a little, by definition dilation isn't adequate (which makes sense, since what you're doing is stretching the tissue). He also explained dynamic dilation: basically as you approach your depth, you begin a gentle rotary movement of the end of the dilator to make it easier to achieve the last inch or so.

There was a speculum involved, for examining the internal skin graft, which appears to be healing very well. He showed me via a mirror that the skin is smooth and basically lacking in angry stitches or anything I might have expected. The lack of bleeding and discharge has been further evidence of this, I guess.

Oh, and the big thing for me: he okayed resuming hormones. Yay!