Caution: Girl Stuff

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Another out of the blue squeamish question - sex during your period?

Time for Greg to earn his Red Wings...

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

This is based on my own personal experience (and I've had my share of medical fun) but most surgery now is such a piece of cake and had so few side effects that I don't see it as being unsafe at all.

I agree that surgery itself is so much better now. My husband is a med-mal defense lawyer, mostly dealing with hospital infection cases. Unfortunately, these days, the infections you get in hospitals can be, and more often than you would expect are, extremely deadly. So that is more where I'm coming from.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have horrible experiences with hormones; that aside I totally applaude your acceptance of your body as it is. I like to think I would be that brave, but I honestly don't know if I could.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by bewitched

I agree that surgery itself is so much better now. My husband is a med-mal defense lawyer, mostly dealing with hospital infection cases. Unfortunately, these days, the infections you get in hospitals can be, and more often than you would expect are, extremely deadly. So that is more where I'm coming from.

Yes, hospitals can be nasty places, however, who does surgery in a hospital anymore? How old fashioned! My partial mastectomy and my appendectomy were both "drive-thru" surgeries. I wasn't even in a hospital but in an outpatient surgery center and was home within 4 hours. If I chose to have reconstruction/augmentation/reduction that would be done in the same setting.

I first thought that was unreasonable, but I see the benefits of "drive thru" surgery now.


On another note, I sure as hell hope I stay within my family tradition of easy menopause because I cannot take estrogen because the cancer I had thrives on it. Sigh.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yes, hospitals can be nasty places, however, who does surgery in a hospital anymore? How old fashioned!

As he was about to dig in for my vasectomy, my urologist said, "Relax. They do this on street corners in China." La, la, la.