#surgery diary

[theartingace]

Murderbot meets ART (who knew transports could be smart enough to be MEAN)

[diamondintherioux]

5/30/24

12w2dpo

I just spent the last 60 hours sans faja. I worked out tuesday, then got a spray tan. Went to the airport and flew to Florida. It was insanely hot yesterday. Today was a shopping day and the weather was perfect. I went to the Cheesecake Factory and take pot stickers, crap rangoon and an Oreo cheesecake. It’s the first time in 3 months I’ve eaten like complete shit. I felt like throwing up the rest of the day. I rarely go to the Cheesecake Factory, I think I’ve only been twice (counting this time) and the food is just nasty. On par with Olive Garden or Applebee’s. Yet the restaurant was packed. Actually had to wait 20 minutes to eat lol I know I’m technically on vacation and should give myself grace but I still feel bad about it. At least I walked around a lot. Shopping burns calories. I got back to the item end immediately put my faja back on lol my safety net. I have an event to go to tomorrow and need to make sure my waist is absolutely snatched.

My body is looking great. I’m going to try to take some photos but I’m pretty busy on this trip so idk when I’ll have the time. Regardless I’m about to be 3 months post op so I want to do a before and after.

I really want to get thigh/knee/ankle lipo. It’s hard to find a surgeon because most of the people who get leg lipo have hideous legs lol mine are just really thick in a bad way. I’m pretty sure I have cankles. And no this isn’t me having body dysmorphia. This is me coming to the realization that my model legs aren’t attainable unless I get some surgical help. The pressures to look good are staggering. There are so many beautiful women in the world. I know that getting a boob job will put me in another league altogether but that’s the one surgery I’m not too keen on getting.

Pros;

Filling out clothes

Being proportional

Looking more feminine

Cons;

Breast implant illness

Artificial substance permanently lodged into my body

Looking fat in clothes

Ugly scars

Complications

Looking older than I am

I wish there was a way to naturally grow your boobs other than pregnancy lol I swear if I had a full c cup I’d be miss universe, celebrity level beautiful. The only real pro to my small boobs is that everything thinks I’m 5+ years younger than I actually am. Having big boobs ages you. And unless you are petite they can make you look way bigger than you actual are. I’m good though. If a billionaire told me he’d marry me if I got fake boobs then I’d do it lol but until then I’m good.

[cosmic-pindrops]

Based on a story by the wonderful @takethewatch, here's my late submission for the @murderbotbigbang 2024!

The story explores MB and Three's struggles with personhood (I'll add a proper summary and the story link once it's posted!)

[maddening-music]

OKAY I THINK THIS WORKS FOR NOW. instrument tf unique to interacting with canto :)

+1 point per maddening piece played; 50 points for full transformation, 5 points per stage (it takes a while to get there because it DOES make the game harder, especially the later stages)

stage 1: slight vision distortion

stage 2: music note pupils

stage 3: neck/collarbone aches

stage 4: tuning protrusions (will change the way your voice sounds; can be used to influence how people see you)

stage 5: feeling stiff

stage 6: soft wood replaces skin (starts from the shoulder and branches outward as the blood moon approaches)

stage 7: chest pains

stage 8: door appears on chest; will not open until stage 10 (trying to force it open causes immense pain)

stage 9: pains inside chest and in and around organs

stage 10: a chamber with a soundboard and strings appears behind the door on the chest; door will open to reveal it

parts of the body will get more and more wooden as the blood moon approaches, which makes it more difficult for one to move around; beginning a week before the blood moon, stats related to certain parts of the body will go down by 5% a day, (such as when one is drunk in dolplus) until everything is set to 0% on the blood moon and the player is left completely immobile.

if the wraith finds you, they will move you. somehow.

[caintooth]

i keep missing work due to my brain injury + brain cyst + general chronic illness, and i only have 5 months to generate over $10,000 or else i’m going to have to go even further into medical debt!

every single dollar makes a real, genuine difference in my life!

[leebuckets]

My Spamton plushie had a very important surgery/lobotomy/C-section today (as all spam plushies typically do). I had heard from a very trustworthy source that Pipis can explode if someone's code is corrupted, I immediately looked on Craigslist for a trustworthy surgeon, luckily a local clown around town said they could do it for the low low price of shrimp!

During surgery , Mr. @shoot-the-clown2 said he had 2 previous happy clients so I didn't question the use of a pocket knife he called a, quote,"Kitchen knife".

After a grueling 15 minute surgery we finally found the pipis in question that was at risk of exploding! It was wedged deep in his giant dome. There you have it, Pipis is stored in the brain.

After spamton got all sewn up (can you tell where Clowns stitching ends and mine begins?) he got a nice cup of chocolate milk and met another spamton!

@shoot-the-clown2 LOVES his spamton as you can OBVIOUSLY see! he LOVES his spamton so much that's why they look so BEATEN. it's because of how WELL LOVED his Spamton is.

After that long long day I gave Spamton some enrichment time (Yes that red hot wheel is Spamton's, not mine, I bought it before his surgery)

Long story short I'm having a lot of fun with my Spamton plushie. Ty @shoot-the-clown2 for hanging out and helping me with my little guy even though you fucking hate him lmfao. Look out for some art I'm gonna post of Spamton! Been working very hard and long on it, probably about 5 days now, hopefully shoot the clown 2 will collab with me on it :]. Anyway! Long post but I'm a Spamton kisser what can I say?

[queerbeverage]

Okay it's time for another Pussy Post bc i just love my new vagina so much. I already gushed at length about being able to get pretty wet pretty easily, but today i'm gonna focus on something else - smell and taste. Now, i am both an avid enjoyer of smelling & tasting girls, so (for science) i ofc smelled & tasted myself. And i have to say, especially in matters of taste, it's actually a looot better than before i got my new vagina. Before it wasn't bad or something, it was just a bit of a nothingburger - my genitals did smell right, and already like pussy (thanks estrogen), but the taste was just - kinda not really there? The texture was A+, really cool & interesting tho.

Now, i smell & taste really really sweet. It's actually a genuinely enjoyable taste, and tho it is a bit dependent on what i eat & probs a bunch of other stuff, i haven't yet had a significant (worse) difference. Also sometimes it's got a really nice texture aswell and it looks really really lewd just pulling it away when it leaves strands, or my hand comes away from my crotch glistening :3

In conclusion: Bottom surgery is still awesome in even more ways and i will continue to rave on about it till the end of time.

[crazycatsiren]

The small things that make one feel human again: washed and combed hair, brushed teeth, clean nightgown.

[stlamb]

the antique wind-up musical lamb someone gave me for valentines day ❦

[diamondintherioux]

4/9/24

5 weeks post op

I’ve went to a qualified (oncology) physical therapist. She was incredible. So extremely knowledgeable on the cording. We created a plan where I had homework (stretching at home) and I see her 2x a week for the rest of the month. I already see my mobility coming back. I can’t wait to finally get my full range of motion so I can resume Pilates and golf.

Everyday is a struggle. One day I think I’m snatched, the next I see a pooch and a wonder why I spent all this money to look the same. I can’t easily see how people get addicted to surgery. I don’t measure nor weigh myself. I’ve been slipping on my water, vitamin and protein intake. But I’ll do better tomorrow. The big struggle is wearing this full length compression lol it’s so hot and constricting. Hard to feel hot in this.

Late night thoughts

Surgery doesn't start when you put the deposit and end when you get off the operating table. It's an actual lifestyle change. A major commitment. If I had to compare it to something it would be like having a child. (I'm talking about getting a body procedure, not a nose job or bleph.) You have to take care and nurture your body for the rest of your life. You should be doing that anyway but I really think surgery rewires your brain. You get so used to one body, then get transformed into a new one that's familiar yet different. So much pain and suffering.

It's so easy to fall off track. "Oh it's just one cookie. Oh it's just the dressing. Oh I'll walk 10k steps tomorrow." Then you just fall back into your old patterns. I can’t tell you how many stories online are about how people fell off the wagon after surgery because they assumed surgery was a “fix it all” type of deal.

I quit coffee. No dessert at dinner. No sweets at the house. My sweet treat is a Barebells protein bare or sorbet. Eating Whole Foods. Drinking water, no sugary drinks. It’s a lifestyle change. Genetically I wasn’t a 90s supermodel but trust and believe after surgery I am.

[specialagentartemis]

Murderbot September Day 3: Augments

“Augments” specifically refer to implanted, integrated, artificial parts with feed access and bio-feedback. An ordinary prosthetic isn’t an augment.

Three hundred years ago, augmentation was relatively rare. It was overwhelmingly done for specific careers, such as spaceship pilots, doctors, lawyers, and high-powered financial professionals—people who needed to process and juggle a lot of information quickly. This was when the ancestors of Preservation took off on the Pressy and were out of contact with the rest of the galaxy for two hundred years.

By the time they awoke from cryo-sleep, augmentation had become a LOT more common. Ordinary businesspeople were getting augmented as kind of a status symbol—saying, my job is so important, so fast-paced, so high-profile, that I need augments to keep up with it. I’m Important. It also became increasingly done by coders, programmers, tech professionals, in order to remain competitive in tech jobs. Brain-feed augmentation for children as young as 11 or 12 became increasingly common—the younger you get brain augments, the more neuroplastic you are at that point, the easier the integration is and the more natural it feels to connect to the feed. This is done both by parents wanting their kids to have an advantage getting high-profile jobs, but can also be sponsored by companies in exchange for promising the kid to be contracted to work for them for a certain number of years when they come of age. Sometimes, this is considered a really good deal.

The people of Preservation were incredibly offput by this.

Even now, nearly a hundred years later, augments are seen as a “corporate thing” on Preservation. Few people are augmented, and they’re still mostly doctors and pilots, and augmentation of children is illegal unless it’s for a legitimate medical cause (certain types of augments were developed for treating things like brain injuries or seizure disorders, for example.) As such, it’s rare but not unheard of to see augmented humans on Preservation. It still… tends to get a knee-jerk emotional reaction of “that’s a vain/barbaric Corporate thing,” though.

Pin-Lee has considered getting augmented before. By this point, you almost never encounter Corporation Rim lawyers who aren’t. When she’s negotiating interplanetary contracts, it’s a valuable tool to get on their level. And lawyers who aren’t augmented are kind of seen as naïve newbies punching about their weight class. But she hasn’t, partially out of 1) legitimate medical concerns that augments could interact poorly with her medication, and 2) pride and spite that she doesn’t have to make herself Like Them to be just as good at her job as them.

[unfortunatelyanvi]

reconnecting with nature after this

[krisisisisisis]

i know that i have a little bit of tummy because of my uterus but like FUCK dude that but of pudge makes me so insecure and dysphoric :/

no matter how many lbs i drop or how often i restrict it literally won’t go away unless i get it removed, which is like, expensive and scary

a uterus doesn’t really fit my vibe lollll

[caintooth]

if you would like to personally spite donald trump you can do so by funding my top surgery

[just-a-space-duck]

I’m gonna be honest. For a long while, I forgot Volescu existed.

[happybunnykat]

Love how it's canon that ART can do bottom surgery. And that it tried to convince Murderbot to let it do bottom surgery on it, pretty much just for fun.