Day 7

So it's nearly been a week (it will be tomorrow morning)

My progress has been slower than expected...though I had no idea what to expect, other than reading message boards and articles...mostly about NIGHTMARE SURGERY.

I wouldn't call mine a nightmare but it certainly hasn't been a walk in the park; I'm hoping the worst is over though.

The pain has improved, or had until just now. I finished my co-codamol after about 5 days and moved on to paracetemol, then cut down from 2 tablets to one, still with one ibuprofen (for the swelling) and still 4 times a day. However, the stitches have started to dissolve and unravel. Which is good on one hand as I don't want anything foreign in my body...particularly as I suspect they're catgut and this freaks me out. On the other hand though...I'm scared they're dissolving too soon. Do I take fewer baths to avoid this happening? Or more, to keep it clean. Argh!

The wound itself looks healthier. The skin is now all pink, the black bits I mentioned yesterday have all gone! When I say pink I mean it's brand new and very delicate tissue and still bleeding round the edges a little. The worst part at the moment is the bits of stitches sticking out everywhere. They aren't sharp but they do itch, and look disgusting. Particularly as I think the wound hasn't properly healed together...it looks like it might gape open if the stitches disintegrate any more. I'm scared about this.

Bascially my inner labia are now tucked in nicely to my outer labia, which was the whole point. They haven't been drastically reduced, just enough for them to be level with the outer lips. Even better, they both appear to be symmetrical (I was warned they might not) apart from a little lump (LL) left at the top on one side. If this doesn't change, I can live with it.

But anyway, I mentioned the sewed up edges looking like teeth, which is unpleasant (and Freudian!) to say the least. What I meant was they're quite square. The labia, rather than tapering down to narrower skin at the bottom edge, end in this blunt way. This might fuse together and go down over time (I hope!) to give a more natural finish. I'd be a bit upset if they looked and felt wide and bumpy forever!

Lucikly my clitoris has been fine the whole time, but got hidden under the hood which swelled a lot after a couple of days and has only just started to go down. The swelling didn't really hurt though. But it still looks bruised down the middle, like a blood blister (under the skin).

I can't wait to be able to walk, sit and stand with my legs together, wear normal underwear (and normal clothes), shower, exercise, and have sex again. In roughly this order, I imagine.
Wish I could fast forward to this point and skip out the difficult parts!