Day 0 (the day of the operation)

After arriving home on the evening of the operation, I felt mostly fine.

My penis and groin were still totally numb, and this didn't wear off until the night. I took a couple of painkillers ready for when it wore off, but I don't think I needed them.

After a nice meal and plenty to drink, I had a bath and a shower. I made the bath warm, not hot, added a bit of salt, and settled down into the water. After a bit of psyching myself up and encouragement from my girlfriend, I rolled back my foreskin all the way, slowly and let it sit there in the water. I waved it around a little bit to make sure it was cleaned fairly well. I didn't touch anything except for the shaft, and went nowhere near the wound site or the stitches.

There was a tiny bit of blood but barely anything, and it didn't look too bad either - a bit bruised and slightly swollen, but this was to be expected. I had no pain doing all this, either.

After 5 minutes of this, I drained the bath, rolled up my foreskin and gave myself a shower to get the rest of my body clean (including removing the orange stuff from my groin).

Drying myself was tricky, as I needed to roll my foreskin back again and then rest it on a towel and dab it carefully, carefully. I got it fairly dry (used a blowdryer on the cool setting from a distance which I think helped), and rolled it back up.

I felt great after the shower and went to bed. I felt much better lying on my side than on my back, so I recommend this.

I woke up twice with half-erections - I was obviously quite aware of them happening. They didn't hurt, but felt a little tight, so I got up and walked around until they went, then I went to the toilet.

Again, I sat down to pee, holding the penis vertically, and dabbing everything up at the end with toilet paper. There was a tiny bit of old blood but nothing that worried me.

It was fine, otherwise! Happy Steve.