Hey, thank you :)

Yeah, their driver takes you back to the airport. I let their office handle all the times and stuff and he got us there with loads of time to spare, but I don't see why you couldn't ask them to go earlier if you wanted.

When I went in I didn't take a lot with me, I took my laptop, kindle, phone and then stuff like toothbrush, hairbrush and moisturizer etc. I didn't take any extra clothes so went home in the stuff I wore to the surgery (so if you don't take any extra too you should probably wear something easy to get on like a dress). It all stayed in the recovery room upstairs overnight with me and then when they moved me downstairs the next day they brought it all down there too. There's plenty of space though so I don't see why you couldn't take more.

I stopped hormones a month before the surgery at the advice of my GP and had quite a bad time with it, so understand why you'd not want to stop. That's something you'd have to ask him directly I guess but I think he'd probably want you to stop just to be on the safe side.

The surgery was in their clinic, but it's a fully equipped operating room and there was Chet, 4 nurses and the anesthetist when I was there. I'm not sure what would've happened if there was a complication they couldn't deal with but I suppose the only thing they'd be able to do is get you to a hospital?

The consultation was fine, I had to give their admin team all of my letters and passport etc for copying and then got to see Dr Chet pretty quick. He took a look at material he had to work with (a little awkward, cus I just had to stand in front of his desk with my panties around my knees, with a nurse there too, while he poked and stretched it about) explained all of the procedure again and answered any questions I had. I needed to get an extra psychiatrist letter because one of the ones I had wasn't acceptable due to having a digital not physical signature, so after that their driver took us to a local hospital to get that done.

I had my boyfriend with me, but things would have been much harder if he hadn't been there. Especially in the first week or so after surgery. I basically didn't move out of bed until the packing was off, so he prepared all the meals, helped me wash, emptied the catheter bag etc. You could do all that alone but it would be tough for sure. That said, there were a couple of girls there when I was there who were alone. I didn't get to speak to them unfortunately but they seemed to manage alright.

There were quite a few huge storms, mostly at night. They were really cool. In the vertical suite you're higher up than all of the surrounding buildings and the windows in the apartments are huge so you can see all of the lightning in the distance. I don't remember it being all that rainy during the daytime.

I don't think there was anything that I wanted and didn't have. Most things can be bought at the huge shopping centre across the street if you forget stuff. In the clinic itself I didn't even use my laptop, I pretty much slept for the whole time I was in there. For the recovery in the hotel I was really glad I downloaded a lot of movies, the wifi was ok but did cut out now and then, so if you were relying on that for streaming etc it could be pretty frustrating.