JoeDulin
Status: Got goals beyond just hanging on now - working towards saving up for my goals.
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Well, I'm now holding a letter from the gender specialist that explains I am living full time as a male, on my way to making the legal, physical, and social changes from female to male. She also has...
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Today, I finished moving out of my old workshop out back of my mother's house. I surrendered it to the brother who has moved back in with Mom, so he can have a sheltered workspace. He's happier,...
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I have an appointment for the 27th of this month with the gender specialist! She spoke with me over the phone, and feels we can plan on moving my transitioning along faster than I had thought. She...
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So now I'm waiting, amidst moving into a new address, for the letters that will tell me when I can see the gender specialist and when I'm to see my surgeon again to plan out the next surgery. I hate...
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I spoke with the second VA- assigned shrink, and she put in for me to see the renowned gender specialist, Dr. Griffon. The VA approved, so now I'm waiting for my appointment.Meanwhile, she also sat...
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I have finally gotten to speak with the specialist who can send me to see the gender specialist. It's all more hoop-jumping, but I am at least a bit closer. During the discussion, the shrink actually...
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Been a while since I last wrote here. A lot has happened in my life; but a lot has remained unchanged, too.First,... Just after New Years, on the 2nd, I was driving and totaled my car on the way to...
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It's been another two or four weeks, and I'm still on the wound vac. I've been following the doctors' instructions, and things are healing much better - but I still have the darn thing. They said...
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Been a couple of weeks since my last update here. That's because I've been dealing with some serious problems.The wounds didn't get infected - an infection burst through from deep inside. I had to...
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Now, not only do the stitches itch, but they're splitting open - it's like a zipper opening in slow motion. The surgeon has seen it, and calmly said "Oh, this is normal. Don't let it bother you....
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Updating my goal progress.
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Hope people can forgive the rambling nature of my entries here; but I write things as they pop up in my head to say them.Right now, it has occurred to me that I have worked a few things out mentally...
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Since my radical breast reduction surgery, I have been off the female hormones and taking male hormone enhancers - meant to boost what testosterone the body makes naturally - and I have to say,...
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I now knew there was a name for what I was - and THAT meant I wasn't alone. There really were others out there that felt as I did! I was in college by then, around my early twenties, and still only...
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OK, here I am - my first public words about my transgender status. Almost 45 years ago, I was born transgender. The doctors all said I was a baby girl; I was treated and raised as a girl, but...
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