Staying motivated to Dilate

Dilation, and how bloody important it is

Posted by Postop (SRS) Care 101 on October 3, 2015

###So…we spent several hours on an operating table where a surgeon painstakingly, carefully and meticulously cut up our unwanted genitals and did nifty genital origami

What? You hate dilating? It’s a total waste of time? Five times a day ? or Two W(hole) Hours every day? I know right?

I used to think Dilating was a total waste of time and now …well I still haven’t changed my mind.

There are so so so so many things I’d rather be doing than fricking dilate. Stuff like

  • Actually getting some sleep. Yeah I’m a sleep deprived parent. I sleep only 4-5 hours daily on weekdays and it burns me out. Sorry this blog hasn’t been regularly updated often enough. Sometimes when I dilate late at night (1.30 am?), I fall asleep and miss out on changing my dilator size (always swap out to the larger ones before nodding off!), I wake up, if I am lucky the dilator is still inside me, if I’m not, there’s gunk everywhere, I missed out the dilation time, etc. which sucks.

  • Play. With my spouse or my kids. Time is really so short.

  • Have a good workout. Heh. yeah. My waistline is a testament of that. Cuz I’m lying on my back instead of having fun outside…

  • Socialize in meatspace. Well it’s not so common for people to group-dilate so I guess that’s the tradeoff to having to dilate. It’s a solo thing.

##So why dilate?

  1. It keeps our system running the way our surgeons designed it.

  2. It prevents stenosis or tightening up and shortening of the vaginal canal which we paid good money for and suffered pain and bleeding for. After all, who, having bought a Ferrari, would not maintain it in operating condition?

  3. We can take this time as quiet time or a time of meditation, self-reflection and just rest and relax. It’s pretty good for the soul, really.

  4. We get to know our anatomy a bit better each time

  5. It is a good check that everything is working as it should

  6. In case of a desire to receive penetrative vaginal sex in the future, constant dilating, even on the smallest dilator, helps to keep things pain-free and enjoyable.

####So Now We Must Dilate, and Dilate We Must