It’s in sauce, it’s in the mother
French chefs have long said the pleasure of fine dining is in the
sauce. And before the advent of nouveau cuisine, they said the flavor
of meat is in the fat.
Changing the subject, how often have you seen photos of a mother dog
adopting a kitten, or a mother sheep adopting a kid goat, see this in
the news every so often. Learned in comparative anatomy mother goats
will not adopt baby sheep, so it is not always reciprocal.
But today upon visiting one of my favorite patients in her 3rd post op
day, her boyfriend left yesterday to return to work, there is her mom
and another of my previous well healed MTF vaginoplasty patients all in the same
room. Two beds… the mother slept with the healed patient so her
daughter could have the remaining bed to herself.
For this mother she had 2 daughters, not one. Contrast this with a
nervous mom coming to me with a pre-op MTF and half of the time
referring to her child as him, him?. Of course this is a Freudian slip
of the tongue. Usually. But at times this is a subtle communication
saying “I regard you as a son not what you want to be.”
So here we have 2 beautiful MTF patients, one black who could be
walking down a fashion runway and the more recent Hispanic also very,
attractive, will have some recent photos of her up soon, and one proud
mother.
That’s all the news this morning from Bay Harbor Islands.
Thought you should know, it’s in the mother.
Harold M. Reed, M.D.
Tags: MTF, Vaginoplasty