Mar 6, 2013 Posted in Sex & Disability | 0 comments

Vestibulitis: A Visual Diary

“I have been living with secondary vestibulitis for a few years (and and few other related pain conditions) and really bent over backwards to salvage my sexuality.”

This is the story of Arashi, visual artist, writer and sex-positive vestibulitis patient and her surgical choice to heal her condition.

Watch here as her story unfolds, from the weeks before her surgery to heal her vestibulitis, until a year later.

 

Part 1: 22 Days Before Surgery – Devastated

Part 2: 21 Days Before Surgery – Authorization

Part 3: 8 Days Before Surgery – Sadness

Part 4: 6 Days Before Surgery – Tools of the Trade

Part 5: 6 Days Before Surgery – My Life in Physical Therapy

Part 6: 5 Days Before Surgery – The Death of Sexy

Part 7: 4 Days Before Surgery – Hysteria

Part 8: 2 Days Before Surgery – Saying Goodbye

Part 9: 1 Day Before Surgery – The Night Before

Part 10: D-Day – Pre-Op

Part 11: D-Day – Surgery

Part 12: 1 Day After Surgery – Recovery: Peas & Pills

Part 13: 6 Days After Surgery – Like a Song

Part 14: 12 Days After Surgery – Post Op Healing

Part 15: 19 Days After Surgery – Spent

Part 16 – 20 Days After Surgery – Inflamed

Part 17 – 95 Days After Surgery – If Only

Part 18 – 200 Days After Surgery – Out of Sync

Part 19 – One Year After Surgery – Finale