So wow, finally I feel okay posting here, starting a topic. Having SRS with Dr. Marci Bowers, as my ticker indicates, at 12:30PM Pacific time on May 13th. Got in the San Francisco area on the evening of the 9th, got to see a Giants game on the 10th and met an amazing member of the chat staff that day for dinner and talk, family on the 11th, and then today, the 12th, my mother and sisters came in, plus icky bowel prep. The best part of that experience is that it was over. Can't believe I drank a gallon of that stuff, the absolutely worst thing I've tasted outside of Beverly, the Italian soda that tastes like murky dish water.
But alas, thank god. Childhood me can finally look back on present me with a smile, liking ALL of this body. I've had so many attempts growing up, trying to remove that bad part going back to when I was 3 or 4, through toilet seats, a saw, etc.
Finally I have will have beaten my body, and freedom is within reach and grasp, even if I feel I'm having this surgery a bit too old, at age 22. I have won against all of the dark thoughts and hatred throughout the years. I HAVE WON.
Will keep you all updated about how things go, reports, etc. Should be amazing, and hope to see you on the other side...at least, complete, and as I see it, cured. Still feels unbelievable this is going to happen so soon; only 14 hours away, with likely more than half of those asleep.
Thank you so much to all of this site to helping me through rough times as a teen, and through my life. I would not be able to type this here without you all. As thanks, if slightly indirect, I have become an advocate for kids and teens like me statewide, hoping to reach across the entire USA with my story, giving speeches, articles, interviews, presentations, and being featured in a documentary, with surely more large scale work on my end yet to come.
