Quote from: Arch on October 29, 2009, 12:46:07 AM
K8, I just saw your ticker...I'm having an OMG moment, and I don't do that so often...well, no, it's more of a Dr. Horrible moment.

Seriously...a hammer...to mark the days till SRS? Was that just a happy accident, or do you have a severely wicked sense of humor?

I think she's got a great sense of humor!  I love her ticker!


Jay

Kate
How can you get that when you have been on HRT less than a year

Quote from: Arch on October 29, 2009, 12:46:07 AM
or do you have a severely wicked sense of humor?

Well, I've never heard it described quite that way, but ... 

Quote from: Krissy_Australia on October 29, 2009, 09:12:43 AM
How can you get that when you have been on HRT less than a year

I started HRT April 2.  I started RLE April 21.  My surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

Yes, I feel truly blessed.  But part of my haste is my age.  I want to enjoy as many years as possible as the real me.  And thanks to many of you, I am discovering just who she is.

- Kate

Good planning Kate
My therapist wont give me a referal till after my ffs

Hummph Kate. SRS already. Well now. 

_{Congratulation anyway.}
Janet

Thanks, Janet.

You'll get there, honey.  Hopefully long before you get to be an old crone like me.

*hugs*
Kate

I have mentioned to him my concerns about my current appearance and how Ill feel more comfortable after surgery. Hes just doing his job to make sure I feel comfortable after the surgery before committing to something that is for all intents and purposes is ireversable

Quote from: Janet Lynn on October 29, 2009, 07:59:40 PM
Hummph Kate. SRS already. Well now. 

_{Congratulation anyway.}
Janet

Well it is a year.... perfectly legit.

Good for you Kate, I'm still waiting, been full time a few years now, vivé la pauvreté

Quote from: K8 on October 29, 2009, 05:57:05 PM

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I started HRT April 2.  I started RLE April 21.  My surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

Yes, I feel truly blessed.  But part of my haste is my age.  I want to enjoy as many years as possible as the real me.  And thanks to many of you, I am discovering just who she is.

- Kate

I am also of a grand age and so feel the same about urgency.  My problem is $$ unfortunately.  I still hope to figure that out and get scheduled for early 2011.  I am going full time this up coming Jan 2 (HRT started 100 days ago, today).  Since I am likely to go to Thailand for GRS, if the finances worked out, I could do the surgery in late 2010 ( my preference by far ).

Kate, just for the record, you are one of my hero's

Charlene

Quote from: K8 on October 29, 2009, 05:57:05 PMMy surgery is scheduled for April 30 - one year and 9 days after starting RLE.

mine is planned 15 months 2 weeks 2 days after starting HRT/RLE. I would have done it those few months earlier but I will be out of the country from next week until just a few weeks before the surgery. Also I picked Summer Solstice for my date because I'm such a pagan lol

Quote from: FairyGirl on November 06, 2009, 10:51:55 AM
I picked Summer Solstice for my date because I'm such a pagan lol

It never occurred to me to pick a date.  Maybe in the next life that I'm TS.

Quote from: CharleneT on November 06, 2009, 10:05:25 AM
I am also of a grand age and so feel the same about urgency.  My problem is $$ unfortunately.  I still hope to figure that out and get scheduled for early 2011.  I am going full time this up coming Jan 2 (HRT started 100 days ago, today).  Since I am likely to go to Thailand for GRS, if the finances worked out, I could do the surgery in late 2010 ( my preference by far ).
Kate, just for the record, you are one of my hero's

Charlene

Thanks, sweetie.  I know that I am very fortunate to have the funds to get SRS.  Many don't.  But to me, it seems like icing on the cake.  The cake – the substance – is being able to live as yourself. 

(I don't know how I will feel about this after the surgery.  I've only been right about half the time so far, so I could well be wrong here, too. )

This is a difficult road, but I don't think that the destination is surgery or stealth (if that is what you want) but being complete and being you.  That is a gift that not many – cis or trans – get in their lifetimes.  I hope you and all of us can get there.  If you need surgery to get there, then I hope you can get the surgery, but it's a means not an end.  Or it might just be the dessert, when it is the sustenance of the meal that feeds you.

- Kate

PS: Wow, did this thread get hijacked!  Sorry.

Quote from: K8 on November 06, 2009, 06:06:50 PMIt never occurred to me to pick a date.  Maybe in the next life that I'm TS.

Dr. McGinn only does this surgery on Monday, and I chose June because of being out of the country and to give myself enough time when I return to get the last little medical checkups and such done. I could have had any Monday in June, but it just so happened that Solstice came on one of them, so I thought it was fitting for a fairy to be complete on Midsummer's Eve.

me too sorry for the thread drift...