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Hello to all! I am a 50 year old transgender woman. I have been researching GRS for almost 10 years while I saved up my dinero for this highly anticipated surgery. Which surgeon would I trust with such a delicate procedure? After careful, and I mean careful consideration, I happened to have chosen a surgeon right in my backyard - Dr. Rian Maercks. I live in Fort Lauderdale and he is located in Miami. There are so many stories I have read about girls going to another country and feeling lonely, I wanted to stay in the states where my family could be with me. I did not really feel confident with any surgeons here, until, I found Dr. Maercks. I read his amazing reviews right here on Real Self.com. I continued to do more research and found great articles written about him. I was very impressed with his out of the box thinking. Shattering the norm and revolutionizing SRS with his own techniques. I called and set up my first appointment. How exciting! The day finally arrived and I sat with him and spoke for a while and it was wonderful. It was clear in my heart that I have found my surgeon! My date was then set for surgery on the 24th of September. Wow. The days seemed to have crawled for my surgery date to arrive. But alas! The day arrived! I came in early that morning and the staff was amazing and wonderful. They made me feel like family, honestly. They prepped me, rolled me into his operating room, I began to count backward and next thing I knew I was being rolled into the recovery room. Holy moly! It was done! Slowly the anesthesia wore off and felt very little pain. Now, recovering from SRS is simply intense. There was a catheter attached which happened to be the most uncomfortable aspect of the surgery. I was forewarned that this would be the case and they were not incorrect! The first night I spent in the recovery room and had a few issues with the catheter. The next day my mother took me to a hotel nearby where we stayed for a week. There was discomfort from swelling I had which I am prone to with any surgery. Then the day came when I was to have my packing removed. I was excited but then quite nervous as I knew the next step would be the dreaded dilation. I have read so much about how truly awful it is that I almost decided not to have the surgery. Now, this is why I chose Dr. Maercks. All girls have to do dilation after surgery 3 times a day with moderate to high levels of pain. Most surgeons use grafting within the vagina for depth. Dr. Maerck's has is very own technique and that wonderful technique has gifted me with a depth of 8.5" and I only had to dilate twice a day instead of three times a day. Awesomeness!!! My dilation experience the very first time was super scary. I had no idea of what to expect. It was the first time I was to put something in my brand new vagina. Crazy... So, it was uncomfortable and very little pain. Each session that passed it became easier and easier. After 5 weeks I started dilating once a day. How amazing is that! Most girls do not get to that stage until at least 6 months to a year! At this point in time, Dilation represents pain to me so what I do once a day is just maintenance. Also, my nerve endings have awakened recently within my vagina and my maintenance has become arousing. It feels very good inside and it is distracting! I say Dr. Maercks has cracked the code on SRS. After a couple of months I had my 2nd surgery which was the labiaplasty. This is a common surgery to aesthetically improve the vagina. Once again, this is why I chose Dr. Maercks because not only is he a surgeon, he is an artist. My vagina is so beautiful I am going to enter her into the Miss Universe contest. She is just so beautiful! To put the cherry on top of this amazing journey, I also had my first orgasm just about 6 weeks after my surgery. Since then, I have had over a dozen multiple orgasms. Feels different and to me, better than a male orgasm. I have not read of any girl having an orgasm so early on. What can I say, I truly believe we have in our country, in beautiful Miami, the best SRS surgeon in the world. I wish I could give more than 5 stars. What a great surgeon and what a great staff! Thank you all so very much!!!