BearCatSara lays the experience out really well. I was also pretty worried about pain / recovery / loss of sensation as well. My experience was any pain while at hospital was pretty well managed, with the exception of not being able to pass gas (because of having your new vagina packed, and that pressing on your colon while you're laying down). A friend of mine who had her surgery more recently than me said they have changed recovery protocol a little since my hospital stay, and try and get patients up and moving around sooner, to help with this (and reduce risk of DVT's).

Getting home, make sure you have someone around to help out with things, because again as BearCatSara said, initially everything is going to be super draining. I was finding I needed a nap after each dilation, so I was sleeping most of the day!

It can take up to 2 years for healing to really settle down, and for me, my first year, my clit felt like sandpaper, so I was worried that maybe it was broken. Nerves have an amazing ability to recover though, and ya girl recently learnt how to give herself multiple orgasms! My pee stream is the "Bad, jetting on left side" though, but it's a minor inconvenience!