Date: 17 May 1996 - Soon to be circumcised in Montreal! My physician has finally obtained a Gomco clamp in my size. And, with a little time off work, I should be able to get the healing well under way before I have to get back to lugging heavy equipment. The doctor has the following weekend scheduled to remove my stitches. |
Date: 21 May 1996 | ||
I am circumcised! I spent the afternoon in a hospital in the suburbs. The good Doctor clipped me at about 4pm, after 2 hours or so of waiting and preparation. | ||
I was done under a local anaesthetic, which had begun to wear off just as the Gomco clamp was being installed. (The doctor was being very careful and was taking his time in snipping the frenulum.) The anaesthetic was the worst part of it for me. It was my own no-turning-back point. When I was lying there waiting to feel the sting, the kid in me (the part that fought back during vaccinations) wanted to run, but I reminded myself that it was what I always wanted. The local seemed to take forever, especially since I’m a baby about needles. But it really didn’t hurt all that much. The test of the anaesthetic that I received was a forcep clamping the frenulum. When I didn’t cry out, two stitches were applied there and frenulum was severed. | ||
I felt my foreskin touching the bell of the Gomco clamp. I could actually feel the annealed copper wire that is used to tie the skin onto the Gomco’s bell pinching the skin; it didn’t hurt but the awareness of it frightened me a bit. After that, the Doc applied the plate of the clamp, working slowly and carefully. I was feeling no real pain, but understandably concerned that if I could feel the cold of the bell and the pinch of the plate, I’d be in agony when the foreskin was sliced off. I felt the skin being pinched, and it hurt a little bit. | ||
The Doctor had a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face as I voiced my concerns and he cranked the nut of the Gomco clamp slowly tighter and tighter, until he was putting obvious effort into it. At once, the pinching feeling and cold bell of Gomco disappeared; I could no longer feel them. He injected more anesthetic as we waited for the Gomco clamp to do its job (about 20 minutes). No doubt, as the clamp was tightened it crushed all of the nerve endings, causing my pain to cease even before the additional injection. He then ran the scalpel around the base of the Gomco plate, completely removing my foreskin. It was so surreal; I still have a bit of trouble believing it. | ||
Finally I looked at the arm of the Gomco clamp and saw my foreskin sitting limp on the top of the arm, but it didn’t bother me or excite me. I was relaxed as anyone could be expected to be under those conditions. He then released the bell, put in about 8 stitches (I could feel them by that point, but they were no worse than the local anaesthetic going in earlier). I was cauterized in one small bleeder on my frenulum before the Gomco clamp was applied. I don’t think I lost more than a tablespoon of blood. Finally he was satisfied, and wrapped a tight bandage around my penis. It had taken about an hour and a half from start to finish! My foreskin ended up in a small bottle which the doctor kept. I hope it found a good home. I bled a little bit on the way back to my apartment, and once there changed the bandages from a compression bandage to a softer gauze bandage. It’s now been about 5 hours and the local anaesthetic has long since worn off. I’ve had a few instances where I’d look at the my hands or something and realized that these are the hands of a circumcised man - at which point I’d start to get hard... well, so far I’ve had several raging erections, but no pain or popped stitches. I can’t wait to take the bandages off and see how I’m healing up. I can’t wait to try this thing out! I feel great, it`s nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. I’m really looking forward to enjoying my new state. |
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