u/u_ten_sil

Hi yall, first time poster here.

I have seen people recently complain about not getting their gender cat orders for several months. These are usually regarding prosthetics.

I ordered a prosthetic years ago from them and it included an adhesive sheet that I would put onto my prosthetic. Unfortunately I misplaced the two syringes they provide in order to make a new adhesive sheet so I would have to order a new one.

I'm just wondering if anyone has ordered other things from Gender Cat recently and had it be reliable?

I quite like the prosthetic and don't want to buy a whole new one if I don't want to.

I'm really wanting to start the process of getting myself qualified for surgery, there's blood tests and I have to get the "okay" from my psychologist, which I'm navigating right now.

But in all of this chaos, I feel alone. I don't really have anyone that is getting meta soon, or wants to start the process of it. I do have trans friends, and I am married. It's just not the kind of support I'm feeling like I need right now.

I just want someone to be excited with me and I feel alone in this.

I've avoided posting this for days.

Man... I was excited about the idea of getting surgery at WCH. After I let go of the idea of having mons during stage 1 (at GRS), I felt hopeful for my UL healing and post op care that I was looking forward to the experience at WCH.

I have been told to stay away from GRS if I can, that post op care barely exists there and that it felt isolating to recover at L'Asclépiade for some. I'm so nervous about having a terrible post op experience, getting a bad infection or being dismissed with pain that feels like something is wrong.

Has anyone had monsplasty as a stage 2 at GRS? I had become comfortable with the idea of the "blood source" from the mons encouraging the UL to heal successfully and now feel like I'm going backwards having to go to GRS. Oddly enough, before deciding on WCH, I had started to come to terms with the idea that my post op care may not be great at GRS so again, it feels like going backwards.

I've tried to force myself to stop thinking about meta so much and just start the process in a year so I don't feel frustrated and overwhelmed. But god damnit, I think about it every single day, constantly. I pull at my body and wish it looked different. I remember feeling like this when I finally decided to get top surgery.

Why does meta feel so much harder and more emotionally taxing to sort out? I got top surgery at 19 and had to get a $12,000 loan for it but meta is covered and I have a allocated surgeon, just have to get on a waitlist and yet I'm feeling defeated.

Any words would honestly be helpful at this point. Am I being too much? Is this really not that big of a deal? Would GRS do monsplasty as a stage 2 if I requested? Can I do anything to be accepted at WCH?

Ugh.