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Pain and the panopticon
This past month marked my third gender-affirming surgery. And while it was the third, it has certainly also been the most complex and the hardest recovery. It is also the first one where I experienced complications that had the potential to be severe, including life-threatening blood loss requiring blood transfusions, and with that has come an enormous amount of pain, far in excess of what I anticipated.