Friday 9 March 2007
I stopped smoking Thursday 8 March 2007. It is important to stop smoking 6 to 8 weeks before the operation. When you are operated on, smoking increases the general and surgical risks (amongst other things, complications with healing). Stopping smoking before the procedure leads to the disappearance of a risk of complication resulting from tobacco. So I will have stopped more than 8 weeks beforehand.
I have a patch and in spite of my man’s smoking, I feel well. As well as giving me back my clitoris, this operation is going to release me from the chains of smoking. Yipee!
In the past I tried several times to stop smoking but each time I started up again. This time I have the best reason in the world. I expected to feel more anxious but quite the reverse, I feel calm and in a good mood. Life is wonderful!
[original in French]
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Good luck friend! I'm sure you have the courage!
ReplyDelete10 March 2007
Thank you Franglaise!
ReplyDelete10 March 2007
Hello
ReplyDeleteI discovered your blog via "vieux c'est mieux", I wish you good luck for your reconstruction. I finished Khady's book "Mutilée" last month, and I started to feel ill reading the account of her circumcision, because it wasn't a question of an anonymous act, but the person who experienced it told it and you felt "close" to her somehow. It's a subject many women, circumcised or not, hold close to their hearts, and even brave men such as this professor who does the repairs.
As for cigarettes, it's not easy to stop but the most important thing is motivation, and that I understand is ultra-strong. I stopped over 20 years ago, and not taken it up again, even though I've had difficult moments, or temptations, it's well worth the trouble of sticking to it! ;o)
10 March 2007
good luck. you are so strong.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Emelire and Karyn!
ReplyDeleteHello Papillon, I a moved by what you write. I have read and re-read your posts. You have strength and courage which above all must not be let go.
ReplyDeleteYou aren't alone: we women who read your account, as Emelire said so well, are concerned, circumcised or not. It's quite simply sorority (female version of fraternity). I had tears in my eyes your account is so shattering. I read "Mutilée" by Khady and it was particularly moving.
I think you are going to find this strange, but I would like to hold you hard in my arms even though I don't know you; not for protection but simply for friendship and solidarity :-)
I wish you good luck in stopping smoking because I know it's not easy. I will be back on your blog for your news.
While waiting, take care of yourself.
Sisterly yours
Shiloune
12 March 2007
Hello Shiloune. Your comment touched me deeply. Thank you for your empathy and come back soon!
ReplyDeleteWow! Well done for stopping smoking. God knows it's hard to stop smoking, I have bitter and tense memories of it. But still, you have great motivation. Well done!
ReplyDelete15 March 2007
Thanks Claude. Frankly it's a really good thing for me to manage to stop smoking without it being a hard battle which I've often lost. Now I can't dither about. I consider this stopping as a preparatory step for the operation, I put it on the same level as the visit I'm going to have to make to the anaesthetist. I haven't cracked until now and I'm counting on continuing like that!
ReplyDelete15 March 2007