Recovery from a Botched Circumcision

My story of dealing with my botched infant circumcision and chronic pain at the age of 21, and how the experience changed me. I hope that this blog can serve as a resource for others in my predicament.

24 January 2014: Foreskin Restoration Before and After; The End(?)

It has been a long time since I have last posted. More precisely, it has been 1 year, 9 months, and 24 days since I have last posted. I...

28 March 2012: Awareness

It seems that this week, the week of March 25 through April 1 is Genital Integrity Awareness Week , a week-long protest that seeks to protec...

25 March 2012: What's Mine is Yours?

My bill at the urologist has been fully paid off, now. I received a phone call from my father, during which he tried to, in jest, make lig...

7 February 2012: Bill in the Mail

I got word of what my estimated out-of-pocket cost will be for my surgical misadventures. I would be poetic and say that at birth they alr...

Important note about the Contact Me Box

There are a few people who have contacted me and left me email addresses that return error messages when I attempt to make contact. If you...

28 January 2012: My Revulsion at HR 2400

There is a current bill in Congressional Committee, one that both shocks and frightens me. It is as follows: HR 2400 IH 112th CONGRESS 1...

21 January 2012: Am I an Intactivist?

I received an angry message in my anonymous comment box from a reader asking, among other things, if I was some sort of intactivist. In a...

15 January 2012: Associative Trypanophobia and a Scar Update

There is an unusual aspect of my life that strikes me as odd, and it is my unusual simultaneously high and low tolerance to pain. I have h...

11 January 2011: Reader Q&A I

Courtesy of the comment box, I received some questions from an anonymous reader that I felt prudent to publish (with permission) and relevan...

1 January 2012: A New Baby at a Family Gathering

As many other families do, my family gets together during the winter holidays. We gathered together as is custom, but with a twist this yea...

23 December 2011: Acceptance

I have been depressed about the new scars for a while now. Fortunately, I reached the breaking point of this depression the other day. Th...

12 December 2011: Family Descriptions

I have been somewhat vague about my family's role and participation in all of this mess, and describing their participation in this seem...

3 December 2011: Three Weeks Later

The fibroid fissure has almost completely disappeared, but the raised area and the new scar are still tender to the touch and are still pain...

28 November 2011: More than two weeks later

The fibroid fissure has become less inflamed, but is still hard to the touch and painful to manipulate. It has closed, and I don't fo...

23 November 2011: I Now Know Why I Write this Blog

It has taken me a while to realize it, but I think I finally understand why I am writing the things that I am. I live in a society of coll...

22 November 2011: The Last of the Stitches and the Fibroid Fissure Beneath Them

I made it through the night without bleeding again, albeit without much sleep. The last of my stitches came out in the bandage overnight, l...

21 November 2011: A Waking-Up, a Call, but not a Wake-Up Call Per Se

I awoke last night/early this morning around 2:30 AM to a sensation that was familiar but different. I awoke to my old friend, pain from er...

20 November 2011: Another Lost Stitch

The middle of the three stitches on the shaft came out, coming undone instead of dissolving. The flesh of the shaft scar appears to be ...

18 November 2011

One week after the operation, I am not feeling too bad, now. The crater seems like it might actually heal and fill in, but I still have my ...

14 November 2011: A Lost Stitch and a Fleshy Crater

It's Monday. I woke up this morning for class, showered, dressed the wound and dressed with clothes. The first of the stitches came ou...

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