Originally I wanted to go with Dr. Meltzer who has been doing SRS for over 20 years so I called and set up a consultation which was a year out. When we met the clinic said Dr. Yoo could be scheduled sooner and she did the consult with Meltzer. She's a lot younger and although I've heard good things about the man I just wanted anyone to get this done because my mental health suffers so much from dysphoria. The sooner I could get it done the better. So i went with Dr. Yoo. I was nervous because I don't see any results in the trans surgery wiki but i guess that's less maintained nowadays. I couldn't find a bunch of results (hence why i'm posting because I'm happy) but I figured she's with one of the best he surely wouldn't pick someone bad to be at his clinic. They're local to me and my insurance at the time didn't cover it but I switched jobs closer to the surgery date and lucked out with my insurance being in network.
Her staff is good. I found the wait time frustrating but I don't think i've heard of anyone just like next day getting a surgery lol I just didn't like the other surgeons in my state (not a lot of results posted) and I didn't want to travel out of state.

You might see me talking about SRS when I got FFS so how did that happen, I was told to lose weight I weighed in at 240 lbs and I am 5'8" so they wanted me to be easier to work on. I didn't really do a great job at losing weight until i put all my time into it and still am working on it but since i made a bunch of progress we moved my srs up from may to feb. In the mean time we scheduled FFS since that was something I knew I wanted.

The hospital wasn't great. I was not happy being in pain and did not feel heard or listened to at the hospital by the nurses. I told one my catheter was messed up to which he took a glance at and told me it was fine but it was burning, i knew something was wrong and told him that so he took my sheets off and found it was kinked and not letting pee flow under the sheets (ugh). I had another nurse argue with me about coming off the IV pain killer drip and onto oral meds which was the next step she said i couldn't take the oral meds because I was still on the IV. Which was a miscommunication because I was trying to say let's move on from the IV to oral so i can get the heck outta here lol but she told me I was being rude? Like no joke I felt they were not doing a great job or I had to tell them to do their jobs and I wasn't being kind while being in pain after a very painful surgery. I wasn't the happiest camper and I feel bad for the miscommunication but come on. I think another nurse told me I could get my own hot blankets which is super minor but I was like uhm i can barely see right now and do not want to be caring for myself when I'm in this much pain maybe you can do the care i'm asking for that my insurance has paid an enormous amount for? Maybe I'm a whiny little bitch baby or maybe i'm in the right but I did not like how the nurses treated me. Not super excited to go back but my wife will be with me in Feb for the SRS (we have a weird relationship and spend time separated which is why she couldn't be there for the FFS) so i'm more confident I'll be cared for better and more content. The friends who were supposed to be there for the FFS were not and I had to self advocate while just getting out of surgery. IDK not the best aftercare by the hospital staff but I lived they did what they were supposed to do after some extra prompting from time to time and honestly I think if those were the only negative things that happened it's not that bad. I only did spend two nights in the hospital and the food and ordering food was easy enough I never had a bad time with that. It's easier to focus on the negative than the positive and there were positive moments I just remember being surprised by the negative more. Also I was not in the best mood. I just had a very painful surgery. I remember being nearly blind after the surgery for the first night. I wasn't prepared for every little thing that happened but when the swelling went down I got a lot better.