TINAS TRANSGENDER WORLD

Well the big day had finally arrived ,it was the 21st of january 2006,and the day i had waited for most of my life.            Below is my story of my trip to bangkok thailand for my gender reasignment with Dr Chettawut.                       Its saturday the 21st of january and i was being collected by my freind D.J. once more as he did on my last trip, infront of me lies a 6.500 mile trip to back to bangkok thailand to collect my dream .               Armed with my two trolly cases in pink sued again, i was duley collected as promissed from my home in nottingham and dropped off at the coach station in the broad marsh shopping centre in the heart of the city.         It was a bitterly cold day and i stood and waited for the national express coach to pick me up and take me down to London ,and Heathrow airport.          The coach pulled in and i managed to get the big case stowed under the coach in the luggage compartment and the other one the hand luggage case and my laptop and black handbag with me .   So armed with a bag of sandwiches and a bottle of water to drink we headed of to london .       My black handbag contained all my documents ,passport ,money ,and a surgical letter given me by Dr Chettawut

The main doors looked very inviting as i headed in to the entrance,and a maize of corridors and allyways and signs giving derections to everwear in sundry .  At least i was inside now wear it was warm and as it was getting late in the day and the final few minets of daylight fear finally disapering fast.       By now i had managed to find myself a luggage trolly and i must say it was a tremendas help ,with bags loaded i headed for my checkin point ,with the objective of lightening my load by getting rid of the big main case .      After a couple of enquirese as to wear EVA .Airways desk was i quickly found it and joined the row of people waiting to check in there luggage.       Iinstinctavly knew i was over weight with my cases ,but proceeded to throw a daft one with the guy checking me in ,with the old tail of " im really sorry guess my scales are not really any good ".  he smiled and said dont worry miss your ok ,so i pushed my luck evan father and got my surgical letter out and proceeded to ask him if i could have an isle seat ,because i did try and book one when i bought my ticked a few weeks ago .   Anyway he said miss Phillips if you head round the corner hear to the lady in the green uniform and tell her ive sent you to get designated an isle seat ,so this i did ,and after a lot of smiles and a thank you from me i headed off into the airport and the duty free section .             One of the items i bought there was a bottle of pink champeign as i wanted to celibrate after i had had my big operation ,and this cost me £20 .

As i got closer to my departure  time i headed for one of the flight boards that gives read outs for the flights incoming and leaving to heathrow.       As i looked for my flight i noticed they had called passengers to the departure point , so off i went again down what seemed another mile of corridores and moving pavements  to the point my flight left from . In the twilight of the evening i could just see the aircraft being loaded with luggage and suplies ,this time it was a smaller jet a 777 instead of a 747 jumbo.

Then the anouncement came would all pasengers catching the flight to tapei via bangkok please start boarding.    So without adoo i headed for the row of people boarding the 777 ,and showed my boarding card and my passport once more and headed for my seat .

Once in my seat that wasant too far from the nearest toilet i waited to see who was going to be sitting next to me , but to my suprise the aircraft started to taxi towards the runway ,so i quickly realised i had got a block of three seats to myself .       So as i was sitting in the isle seat on the outside,this gave me quite a few options really either a window seat or evan all three if i wanted them .       After a few hours of watching the tv i had in front of me with the map i had put up on it to show wear i was on my 6.500 journey ,i decided to experiment with the arm rests on the other seats and quickly found they would lift up out the way ,so with no more adoo i lifted the arm rests and spread the three lots of blanckets out and put the cussions against the window and made myself a cool bed to lay out on over the three seats, and after a few enviouse looks proceeded to dose alittle and kill as much time as possible ,as all i wanted to do was get the 10.1/2 hours to go as fast as possible .      On my fist trip to thailand i had a nice guy to talk with and that helped pass the time for me ,but this trip the main disadvantage of being on my own was apart from the air stewardesses i spoke to nobody in 10.1/2 hours .                    Well the hours did roll bye and i could see by looking at the journey planner map on the tv that i was almost there ,and felt the landing gear come down on the aircraft ,and also looked out the window for my first view of thailand ,but all i could see at this point was the wings on the aircraft through the window.

Well i was finally hear ,the time and place i had waited for and the op that would alter my life and give me that gift of my femininty i had wanted was just hours away ,so i made my way off the plain and headed for passport controll ,and handed in the two little slips you have to fill in on the plain .        Ihad no problems at bkk at all ,but the moment you step off that jet you can smell thailand ,with its million smells of the orient you just dont associate with the uk .    They stapled one of those slips in my passport ,and i headed off to collect my luggage from the conveyor belt, by the time i had got to the belt and secured myself an airport trolly ,most of the luggage had already been taken off it and my case was there at the side waiting for me .        My next worry was the thing was anybody gonna be there to meet me at the airport ,and just in case i had a couple of phone numbers handy dr chettawuts and tairs in the side of my handbag.         But as i swung fwd and to the left and through the exit door towards the main entrance , i could see the people waiting to collect and meet passengers of the plains .     As they got neerer it was a sea of name boards and signs ,with people all hoping to atract sombodys attention ,and taxi drivers all wanting to pick up fairs .  Islowed right down and tried to glance at the name boards while pushing all my luggage on that airport trolly , and as they all got closer and the funnell of people closed up i heard a person shout "TINA ....TINA "   it was one of dr chettawuts young girls ,she had come with dr chettawuts new driver to collect me from the airport.    We made a warm greeting to each other ,with a nice hug as well and that smile found its way back on my face once more ,a gave a big sie of releife at least i wasant gonna get stranded at the airport . We stood and chatted while the driver pulled the big black smart car round ,and he loaded the luggage in the boot ,and we headed across bangkok to the Baan Siri hotel .      Its strange but in some ways it was like coming home once more ,as we aproached the hotel ,i looked for that familier big yellow sign right wear you come into the hotel ,and there it was ,after 6.500 miles i had made it , i was at the hotel .      In the car i was given an itinary to work to ,and had quickly glanced at it and put it back in the envolope ,but it appered to me it started with its instructions for the clensing routeen before i had got the instructions to follow ,still thats Thai for you isant it !!!!.          

The black car pulled up infront of the hotel entrance and the doorman polightly opened the car door for me ,and i stepped out and the driver took my luggage out the boot and moved it into the main reception for me . There a maid quickly shuffled it on to a large trolly ready to go upto my room .     Imade for the main desk ,and said Tina Marie Phillips , the lady said no problem miss phillips its room 815 ,great stuff dr chettawut had secured the old room from the previouse trip like i had asked him to for me .       Isigned the guest book and asked for a security box " small or large " miss phillips ,so i took the large one .  Then i moved off to the lift i so vividly remembered from my last trip,and with the luggage on the trolly we went streight up to my old room .      Iput the key in the lock and glanced round ,it was just like i had remembered it so clearly from my last viset a few weeks ago in october .  The maid unloaded the luggage and left ,and i glanced round ,the beds the dressing table ,the closets /walldrobes ,everything was just the same . Itook a few minets and perched down on the stool infront of the dressing table and my mind sorta felt " well tina your finally hear ,and now starts your greatest adventure ,and also your dream " .  Itook a can of fanta orange out the mini bar ,it was nice and cold and i had a major thirst on me after my journey ,so i sat and sipped it and took the flight itinary out the envolope again and read the instructions .    It appeared as i had thought ,the itinary started befor i  got it ,with instuctions of what not to have on the flight and to take a laxative as soon as i got there to my hotel, not much chance of that as i hadant got no laxatives with me to be honest .              

I opened the door to my room and there stood Paula ,i helped her inside with her luggage and gave her a big hug ,my freind from dallas texas had finally arrived at the hotel .     Paula explained she had a wicked journey the aircraft she had transfered to in tokio japan had loaded them on board and then sat 6 hours on the runway before taking off .        I made her a cup of coffee and we exchanged a few centances and i explained i had just about given up on her coming and decided to hit the sack .       Paula looked prity wrecked herself it had taken her nearly 25 hours to get hear ,quite a journey in any scence .        She drank her coffee and started to get unpacked ,and i explained if she needed hangers she would have to try and purge them out of the reception staff down stairs .       So my support had arrived from the usa ,and our little team was complete .      I explained my consultation was tomorrow and that i needed to sleep to be fresh and have my wits about me when i saw dr chettawut ,well paula looked prity tired herself so i sujested we both get some sleep ,and we retired for what was left of the night .

I woke first  and i decided to let Paula sleep in a while ,she certainly looked as though she neede it .      My pickup wasant going to be till nearly mid day so i was in no panic to start racing around ,and decided to go on line awile and dig around on the net and check out my groups on yahoo .        An hour or so later paula aroused and we carried on chatting from wear we left off the night before.  We made some coffee and i explained my pickup wasant till mid day to go to dr chettawuts clinic for my consultation ,and we gradually got our selfs ready and went down for breakfast at the bann siri .           For 130 thai bhats you can help your self to the breakfast buffet ,and we decided to have toast ,followed by scrambled eggs and bacon ,with orange juice and coffee .     That bacon well words leave me , i think that pig gave its self up ,and as far as cooking it was prity naked .      Our first meeting with our fellow freinds took place then ,we met claudia& jamie lynn  and a couple of others in the reasturant ,and sat and exchanged hellos ,and talked for awhile amung ourselfs . Its always interesting to meet other girls that were there for there surgery and jamielynn had had her srs and breast augmentation before i arrived there .    The photos are myself with claudia ,and jamie lynn .

We decided after our breakfast to go down the 7/11 store and get a few more bits in we might need in the hotel .     In our room we had whats called a mini bar ,that was infact a small fridge ,so we emptied it into the shelve next door ,that was all the assortment of drinks in there ,because we had no intention of useing them and getting them added on the room tab ,we just wanted the fridge space to be honest .       Well the time was looming up fast for my pickup by dr chettawuts driver to take me to his clinic for my consultation there ,so we headed down to the reception area and waited outside on one of the black and gold wrought iron seats that later on i would end up desribing as the cheese grater after my srs op .       A few minets later the car arrived ,we got on board and headed for the clinic ,this turned out to only be a few minets drive away and we turned off the main hyway and down a side road that was unfamier to me and the clinic turned out to be a smart looking place with an old garage to its right ,and a paint shop to its left ,in an area that didant seem all that fitting to the type of place you would have expected to be honest .

Inside the clinic it was a smart tiled area with wood paneling on the walls and as i entered i was greeted by Tair who swiftly came over and gave me a big hug and asked how i had been . I took a seat in there for just a few moments and then dr chettawut came out to greet me with a big smile ,and said haaaa Tina how are you and shook my hand ,so i smiled back . He led me into an office next door and he asked me to get undressed so he might check me over ,i took all my clothes off and lay on the bench /coach he had up against the wall.    He closely looked at all the skin i had down below and said he didant think i would have any problems there with doner material for my srs . Then came out the camera and he took photos of my breasts that he had done augmentation on a few weeks ago ,and commented that i must have been doing the massage daily as there was no capsalation with them ,i commented yes twice aday doctor.     He also took shots of me down below for his pictorial record ,and asked if i might send him some photos of my ears he had pinned back on my last viset ,so i said why not take some now if you like ,and he said ok thats fine ,and proceeded to do so ,and commented he had not many photos of ear surgery because most people have it done go home and he never gets chance to see the results at a later date .     We now sat down at his desk and he started to tell me what the srs proceedure involved and roughly how the operation would be performed on me and how he would construct the neo vagina complete with hood and cliteras ,it all sounded rather impresive i must say .     Next came abit of a blow really he produced a paper he asked me to read ,it described a proceedure to do an extra skin graft if it was needed to get as much vaginal depth as possible ,but this would mean useing doner skin from the belly area ,just below the navel area ,and also there would be an extra fee of $1500 dollars to do it ,and this would be performed at the doctors descretion ,the paper was a concent form alowing him to do it if he thought it was nessasary .     It was a blow because when you sorta figure you have paid your fee for the surgery and then sudanly you might still need another $1500 to pay for the extra if needed it stunned me slightly ,never the less at that stage a couple of days away from you srs grs surgery you sorta have no option but to sign ,i knew i had the extra with me if needed to cover it on my visa card ,so i signed the forms .        Next we got onto the subject of my ffs surgery and discussed the lower half of my face ,and dr chettawut commented that as i had recovered so well after my ops on my first trip he didant think any due concern should be there to do some of my facial surgery after my srs , but then came the next blow ,i sugested only three days after my srs ,while i was still in the hospital .       Isorta looked and felt a bit amazed at this and said dont you think thats abit optomistic so soon after my srs ,the doctors comments ,maby your right tina ,and i sugested ,how about a week and a half after ,and he agreed that sounds ok .         We discussed certain parts of my .lower face the jaw area and chin and also the crease under my lower lip and i asked if maby that could be got rid of slightly with a gauze incert as he had once sujested on an e mail to me .  He leaned over felt my chin area and said alot of whats there is muscle and it would not be good to mess around that sort of thing . Any way after hammering it out about the bits to do ,after about 30 minets we agreed on the proceedures,and arrived at a price of about $6.500 ( us )    .     The next problem after he had tried to convince me i needed my crows feet doing round my eyes was the fee .      Itold dr chettawut that on me i could only do about 1000 pounds in pounds sterling off my visa card ,and would give him that as a deposite and wire the rest as soon as i could arrange it with my banks in the uk ,in aproxamatly 2-3 weeks after i got home ,but that didant go down too well and he insisted why not arrange the mony from hear in thailand ,i knew that would be much too complicated as i needed to shuffle money from several accounts into one to do a wire transfer .      It struck me full on he didant stust me in the matter of the balance of the money ,and that hurt i must say ,i had trusted him from my previouse trip by paying for my srs well in advance and i was shocked that he didant repay the compliment to be honest,he just kept insisting that he had the hospital fee to cover and could i be sure how long it would be before i payed the balance ,the trust in my eyes had gone ,he asked that i would have to sign a document he would need to have drawn up to say i owed the balance to him ,well i just didant like how this was going and made the statement " lets forget it dr chettawut ,ill go wear i had planned to the usa and dr o in sanfrancisco ,im sure he will sort anything i might wish for " .       I left his consultation room after asking why i hadant been notified sooner about taking laxatives for my clensing routeen and he said no worries ill give you twice the dose to catch up ,witch suprised me again .      When i got back in the main reception area paula could see i wasant happy about things ,she could see by my face to be honest .    Iwas given the laxatives and told to follow the itinary on the paper i had been given , we went outside climbed in the big black car and headed back to the Baan Siri hotel a short drive away . Paula commented whats wrong sis so i explaned that i was slightly gutted that the trust i thought we had built up between myself and dr chettwat didant really exist at all ,and that he wanted me to produce $4000 us up front to do my facial surgery  ,paula could see why i was slightly upset ,and after i told her about the possible extra $1500 us if he has to do an extra graft to get the vaginal depth ,we left the subject alone ,as paula could obviously see i was slightly upset

We got ourselves a shopping trolly and proceeded to fill it with just about everything we figured we could manage to assemble in our hotel room ,obviously we couldand cook so it was mainly bread cakes and cheese , ham and loads of fresh fruit ,also a small amount of cutlry to use including a large sharp knife for cutting things up , and some glases for when we decided to crack open that bottle of bubbly ( pink champeign )

This is Mcdonalds bangkok style across the road from Jesco

Well loaded up with a couple of dozen carrier bags between us we made our way out to try and get a taxi back to the baan siri hotel ,as by now it was quite dark outside.

After we got back from jusco i knew i had to start taking the laxatives to start my clensing routeen ,so once we had got all the bags stowed away with the food in the refrigerator ,i took the laxatives dr chettawut had given me ,and waited for the results .and made sure we were in the vacinity of our room and a toilet .         Monday was going to be a free day to rest and to pack my small case with all the things i figured i would need to spend a week in the hospital for my srs operation .                                                                   

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