Hi Everyone!
My mom was more than just accepting when I told her I was going to transition nearly three years ago, she wanted me to transition here with her at home, not caring what the neighbors, my brother or the family might say. She finally had the daughter she always wanted, and could have had at my birth. But here I am, just over two months away from 60, and after waiting for more than two years after my mom first told me she'd pay for my GRS, and putting one thing after another ahead of me, it's finally going to happen. My mom, like so many people of her age group, part of "The Greatest Generation", not only lived through the war, but grew up poor during the Depression. Consequently she's been very frugal (read: tight, lol!) about money. Well, now she's 86 and her money's not as important to her as it once was. Anyhoo, she gave my niece more than the amount of GRS in Thailand two weeks ago after getting one call from her asking for a down payment on a house, and right then she wrote a check. I sat there dumbfounded and I finally said, "You've been promising me the surgery to make me whole for two years and Amber gets money immediately, no questions asked. I'm glad you're doing that for her, but you promised me. If you don't plan on giving me the money for surgery, mom, then quit telling me you're going to do it! It hurts so much every time you tell me one thing and do another. I NEED this surgery." We talked about how I thought I was a girl till age 4, getting into her lap at 12 and telling her I didn't want to live if I had to live as a boy, and going to the library for a month straight at 14 to look at a reference book on transsexuals and the actual surgery. And she shook her head and said, "I've known your whole life we should have raised you as a girl and that you were terribly unhappy until you were able to be you. I know you need this surgery to feel whole, to really be Miranda. So start doing whatever you need to do to get your surgery now. Do it, honey. Whatever money you need is yours." I said, "Thank you, mom!. I love you sooo much!" I gave her a big hug and a kiss on her forehead and I started crying. So on Monday, I'm finally going to start preparing by getting my letters from my endo and psychologist, apply for my passport and whatever else I need to start on, because my mom's paying for my surgery!!!!! Free hugs for everyone, Mira
