The Greatest Lie Part 15

She replied, "Every day for the last two months, about fifty drug dealers are ying ting. More than twenty five hundred of them are ying ting already, fifty thousand more in jails. It is a national cleansing. Those on the Government's blacklist must either turn themselves in, or else they will become ying ting."

"Ying ting: that's what the cop said. Are the police killing them?" I demanded.

"They are killing one another, and the police aren't stopping them: good riddance. Thaksin is strong, and the people support him. The yaba dealers must be dealt with." She smiled politely, but she spoke emphatically. She finished with our paper work, blood tests and vital signs, and then showed us to Sanguan's office.

Sanguan met me with his customary polite, somewhat stiff manner, but when he examined my neovagina, he frowned. "You are a most unusual case, Miss Rivers. Most patients I criticize for not dilating enough. You dilate too vigorously. You are overly inflamed inside."

"I'm sorry. Am I OK for surgery?" I asked in panic.

"Of course, but it is swollen. Do not dilate so roughly after this surgery," he cautioned.

I decided not to tell him about the cruel and violent sexual assault I had endured just a few days earlier for fear that he would defer the final step in my sex-change operation. I admitted instead, "I always tend to overdo things."

Sanguan advised, "It's OK to dilate, or make love vigorously, later, but not at first. It will be less tender than before, but the new labia will need time to attach, and the tissue where I dissect the ring must heal. No sex for four weeks!"

I had endured more than eight weeks of abstinence after my initial surgery, and only anal sex had been bearable thereafter, so four weeks seemed reasonable by comparison. "How long in the hospital?" I asked, remembering the weeks I had spent here in December.

"You go home as soon as anesthetic wears off. Operation hurts a little but it's no big deal, more like plastic surgery than last one, which was two difficult abdominal surgeries. Go to prep room now, you'll be done by dinner. Might not be too hungry, though. Tonight, you can stay here or at a nearby hotel."