tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post2645391775461329221..comments2023-10-20T15:06:46.493+01:00Comments on A Changing Life: Remembering and forgettingA.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-37986738079264472002009-05-01T00:06:00.000+01:002009-05-01T00:06:00.000+01:00Hi there. I don't know if you are anywhere near L...Hi there. I don't know if you are anywhere near London? There are some good clinics there. See the post <A HREF="http://travellingspouse.blogspot.com/2007/07/fgm-contacts-in-uk.html" REL="nofollow">FGM contacts</A> though some of the numbers may be out of date, but I think it would be a start, and they may be able to help you. But please, don't feel ashamed or dirty.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-83773717005550480112009-04-30T23:30:00.000+01:002009-04-30T23:30:00.000+01:00hi
just wnat to thank every1 for the information ...hi <br />just wnat to thank every1 for the information vervy much appreciated!!<br />i thouhgt maybe i could share something also as i too have been a victim. well at least i think i have. This is what is so frustrating i have just turned 18 therefore have had no sexual activity.when one day a family member joked and said i had been circumsied i freaked out and asked on a serious note whether sheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-89002960407528777932007-11-14T13:00:00.000+00:002007-11-14T13:00:00.000+00:00Hi Sahra/FoziaHere is a post which will give you a...Hi Sahra/Fozia<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://travellingspouse.blogspot.com/2007/07/fgm-contacts-in-uk.html" REL="nofollow">Here is a post</A> which will give you a few contacts in England. They may be able to tell you more details or where to find out.<BR/><BR/>Dr Foldes hospital and contact details are <A HREF="http://chi-poissy-st-germain.fr/site/Consultation_de_Chirurgie_digestive_viscerale-108.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-71220452161537891032007-11-14T11:53:00.000+00:002007-11-14T11:53:00.000+00:00Hi every one, i would like to find out information...Hi every one, i would like to find out information about Dr Pierre Foldes,<BR/><BR/>Can someone tell me, is the operation only done in france? what about England?<BR/><BR/>Do you have to be 18 years old?<BR/><BR/>Do you have to pay, if so, how much?<BR/><BR/>thanksFoziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09046011878172509954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-60323549272356151392007-11-14T11:48:00.000+00:002007-11-14T11:48:00.000+00:00By SahraHi,I would really like to find out about D...By Sahra<BR/><BR/>Hi,I would really like to find out about Dr Pierre Foldes's work.<BR/><BR/>Here are some questions I would like to know:<BR/> <BR/>Is the practice only done in France, what about England? or other European countries?<BR/> <BR/>Do you have to be 18 to have the operation?, what about if you are 16? or 17?<BR/><BR/>Do you have to pay? if so, how much?<BR/><BR/>If you know all or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-65942454885749817372007-04-27T21:19:00.000+01:002007-04-27T21:19:00.000+01:00I’ve had several operations, some with general ana...I’ve had several operations, some with general anaesthetic for an operation on facial bones. Seeing who is operating on you, you will have a good anaesthetic, with good conditions for waking up. With a light general anaesthetic (without need of a respirator) I have dreamed (a nightmare of daily life: the kids don’t want to do their homework .. you can imagine the sort!) but with a major Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-82948525903835233852007-04-24T18:22:00.000+01:002007-04-24T18:22:00.000+01:00I'm a little late to this but felt I should write....I'm a little late to this but felt I should write....<BR/>I have always been intrigued with what I can recall from my childhood. To be honest, I have remembered a lot of things from the time I was rushed to the hospital at 18 months to have my stomach pumped to how the furniture in our apartment was arranged at the age of 3. But there is more missing than there is present. My question to you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-60066348719820479882007-04-21T20:35:00.000+01:002007-04-21T20:35:00.000+01:00You’re right, all three of you. Fafa and Claude, ...You’re right, all three of you. Fafa and Claude, when you say being conscious but not seeing what’s being done to me would be distressing and Steph_Hassan, when you tell me that I must stop suffering as an obligatory passage to achieve my reconstruction.<BR/><BR/>It really is necessary that I abandon this idea of valuing events byt pain (the more you suffer, the more important the event). RightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-55179433830838200422007-04-21T20:34:00.000+01:002007-04-21T20:34:00.000+01:00Yes, I’m back because I have just read fafa’s com...Yes, I’m back because I have just read fafa’s comment which says “with a local anaesthetic you could have a shock, saying to yourself for hours ‘what are they doing to me?’” She is a hundred times right. <BR/><BR/>In fact, when I had an operation I had a vertebral anaesthetic, it’s a type of epidural but much stronger. I had terrible memories of it because I had the impression that I couldn’tAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-90991184295938084302007-04-20T22:27:00.000+01:002007-04-20T22:27:00.000+01:00I’ve also come from Hélène’s site .. and you have ...I’ve also come from Hélène’s site .. and you have touched me so much that I can’t escape reassuring you.<BR/><BR/>I’ve often been anaesthetised, and I can tell you that the technique has evolved enormously over the last 20 years. Today the falling asleep is “pleasant”, and similarly the waking, which in effect is very much like a normal wakening, with kindly people looking after you, cosy in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-45069486783679993852007-04-20T22:26:00.000+01:002007-04-20T22:26:00.000+01:00As far as I am concerned, the falling asleep was s...As far as I am concerned, the falling asleep was sudden, the waking was gradual and difficult. I had the feeling of struggling to wake up, but really a testing struggle against my body. I didn’t want to go back to sleep because I wanted to see what had been done, if someone had done anything to me, to see with my own eyes.<BR/><BR/>Believe me, you won’t forget the operation, ever, because you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-55115004634607787742007-04-20T22:24:00.001+01:002007-04-20T22:24:00.001+01:00In reading you comment Claude, I realise that, in ...In reading you comment Claude, I realise that, in effect, I had envisaged a sort of anaesthetic switch, I didn’t the gradual falling asleep and wakening, a progress which for me is a good thing because it allows me to remember that moment (I’ve always had little confidence in my memory, I always have to store lots of details to be sure of retaining a trace of one event).<BR/><BR/>And then, it’s Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-59236444124062289202007-04-20T22:24:00.000+01:002007-04-20T22:24:00.000+01:00Papillon, perhaps what is bothering you about the ...Papillon, perhaps what is bothering you about the anaesthetic is the idea of being dispossessed of your body, but you know, when you were circumcised, even if you don’t remember (and perhaps it’s for the better) you must have suffered enormously. And if you don’t remember, it’s surely that your brain has protected you from unbearable memories.<BR/><BR/>It’s when you can no longer carry on that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-91614201799375113102007-04-20T22:21:00.000+01:002007-04-20T22:21:00.000+01:00No Lili, it’s really not a need to control which e...No Lili, it’s really not a need to control which exercises me. From the surgical point of view, and even medical, I have blind faith in Dr Foldès and his team. What bothers me is from the point of view of “whizz”!!! There you are, you have hardly blinked and it’s already done, you are rebuilt, you haven’t noticed anything. I don’t know, the fact that it’s like magic, well that stresses me a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-34909668055168076022007-04-20T22:20:00.000+01:002007-04-20T22:20:00.000+01:00Hello papillonI have two great memories of general...Hello papillon<BR/><BR/>I have two great memories of general anaesthetic, or rather I have none and fortunately so ;o)))<BR/>On the other hand I have some bad memories of a local anaesthetic because things started to go wrong when, overcome by panic, I started to have a spasm and could no longer breathe …<BR/><BR/>What you are undertaking relies on confidence, which you attribute to Dr Foldès in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-45515393699196314812007-04-19T21:23:00.000+01:002007-04-19T21:23:00.000+01:00Hello Papillon, I found your blog by chance, while...Hello Papillon, I found your blog by chance, while I was just looking for information about reconstruction of the clitoris. Like you I was circumcised and apparently, unlike my sisters, I was most affected by this “drama”. I want to thank you for, through your messages, sharing your fears, your doubts, your questions, your desire to have full sexuality and above all for having the courage to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995313306997352940.post-1410095224657382032007-04-19T21:05:00.000+01:002007-04-19T21:05:00.000+01:00My experience has nothing to do with yours, and th...My experience has nothing to do with yours, and that’s exactly why I am telling you. So that you’ll have a totally different point of view, not on the circumcision but solely on the anaesthetic. I am really afraid of hospitals. Just the visit to the anaesthetist has me sweating, with my heart beating, beating … I’ve had an anaesthetic (general) twice. Both times I needed a sedative to “make Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com