It's been one year today that I did two things that have changed my life for the better. I knew what I was about to do that afternoon would eventually lead to an upheaval inside my family, and cost me friends. But, that didn't matter a year ago because if I didn't change my life I was going to die. And so:
1. I accepted my remaining a man was no longer acceptable, and change was inevitable.
2. I decided the estrogen cream I got without a prescription had to be used, and began three months of very unwise estrogen self medication.
I don't condone my self medication and I don't include it in my ticker because of plain old shame. But I do remember this day. After one year I can't believe how happy I am, and how open my life has become.
Hiding? Never again.
Moving along cautiously? Of course.
Wishing I had never been born this way? Every day, but no longer a lost soul.
Love, Kathy
