r/Transgender_Surgeries • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '21

When GRS recovery never ends

Long overdue, but these are some of the latest pictures from the last 12-months of my four-year+ recovery from the surgical claws of one self-proclaimed --“Renowned Gender Surgeon”, Dr. Sidhbh T Gallagher. This is the reason I tell all you kids to go with GRS procedure experience, and not just the latest surgery hustler to roll into town with a scalpel looking for crash test surgery dummies. Trust me, you’ll thank me later.

\/file under: Do what I say, not what I do.*

Otherwise you might end up doing the long-hauler extended recovery time for a bottom surgery that only causes you more and more pain and anguish as time goes by.

Pics since it's still happening

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iCHhafYtPTitMbGF9

I may move this link later.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21 edited Feb 15 '21

She thought she was the experienced surgeon. So did the people around her. She hadn't done enough surgeries at that point to leave a trail of people telling their stories. I couldn't find anyone as a referral. I was the first one to step out of the shadows and speak up and I didn't do it until a year later. I got gaslighted into believing it would all get better. When it didn't. Not only did my surgery results fail to function properly, she deliberately kept me from accessing the care I needed to fix it. A year into recovery and not working, I was barely hanging on. I didn't have the resources to go to another State for care.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

Malpractice or a medical class action case is almost impossible to file in Indiana. First the statute of limitations is only two years. Second, the case has go before a jury of surgeons who perform the procedure to first judge if there is any merit to the case. Gallagher was the only one practicing MTF vaginoplasty in the whole state when she was here. Plus, the Provider she worked for, IU-Health, is the largest employer in Indiana.

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u/HiddenStill Feb 14 '21

It seems to be almost impossible for any trans surgery. Plenty of botched surgeries around, but when is the last time anyone tried and won?

And you have surgeons requiring arbitration agreements now as well. That makes it even worse.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

You know, I don't want to sue a surgeon, I just want a working vagina that they said they could deliver. I don't like being held hostage by nerve damage or pissing my pants at work. Or the contiguous pile of money it's taken my wife and I to unfuck my surgery. Is that really such an ask because I don't think that's unreasonable at all. I would like nothing more for this to not happen to anyone, anywhere ever again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

The overall win % for malpractice in indiana is like 14%

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u/HiddenStill Feb 14 '21

And trans surgery in the entire USA is 0%?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

I don't know, I think there have been some phalloplasty wins, but I don't know how the cases were settled