Bit of dried blood around the head yesterday and today, turned black after smearing some Medihoney on it. It may look infected, but it’s not. Just having a four-day-old penis’s version of a bad hair day.

Today I’ve been having a time with my very first surgery complication, from staples opening up in my sleep: a constant serous fluid leak at the side-base of the dong. Not dangerous (meaning nobody’ll bother stapling it back again), just super annoying, as it takes an adult diaper WITH towels scrunched in to stop everything around me from being soaked with bright pink. Until those soak through, too.

Not gonna lie: I’ve kinda given up on sleeping since the surgery. Those yellow marks on the bed were cold wet sticky patches from the giant synthetic scab graft on my leg, and they’d *just* dried before Lisa Frank Unicorn Blood went and soaked the other side.

My stand-to-pee prosthetic’s been falling apart for months now. Its measuring spoon was in tatters; I snipped off the tube attachment after holes wore through the sides. When you’re wearing it constantly, these things happen, but at least having a broken prosthetic feels less jarring than not having one at all.

It only seems fitting that the go-to cocoon I’ve been purchasing identical models of since 2004 would be breaking down right as I’m about to transform the area for good, in just a few days.