Sugar and Spice

At 7:30 this morning, Thai time, my friend Gillian will have begun her SRS with the good Dr Suporn. I’m so excited for her, and ever so slightly wishing it was me there. Ironically me, Stephie and Laura (some of the local TS gang) and Natalie from Arran went out for a Thai meal last night. Gillian doesn’t like spicy food so she’ll be living off KFC for a month! Gillian rang us around midnight while we were in the pub, half an hour before her op was due to start, she’s very laid back you know. Anyway we all wished her well and I asked her to keep the bed warm for me. She won’t ever read this, but I just wanted to state on record, that I am officially thinking about her. All the best babe, hope it’s gone well and I look forward to hearing all the gory details.

We all went out last week as well, with Gillian, to wish her well on her way. Or maybe it was just an excuse for a nice meal out and a few drinkies. Like most TS’s I just want to live a normal life and blend in amongst society, but it’s kind of fun going out with a gang, and really making our presence felt in this small town. Makes people aware that we are not isolated individuals hiding away, and that transgenderism is everywhere, even in Kendal.

Saw my GP the other week for a repeat prescription, and managed to persuade him to add Oestrogel to my regime, which I’ve been using anyway, but now it will be £6.50 a tube instead of like 20 quid. While I was there I asked him to print me out the letters from Charing Cross; every time I visit them they write back to my GP just to say what was said and what they had ascertained and what he should be doing about it. Despite some minor inaccuracies, which I hope are irrelevant, it was all very reassuring:

"My impression is that Lucy does indeed suffer from a primary male to female gender identity disorder…"

Well thank goodness for that!

"She passed very well in a female role…"

That was nice, debatable though.

And from the second psychologist I saw:

"She presented as an unremarkable female with foundation, lipstick and blusher…"

And half a pot of Dermablend, as always. Unremarkable is good, I think, don’t want to stand out from the crowd.

"Ms Jones’s presentation was consistent with Gender Identity Disorder. There was no psychopathology"

That’s two opinions in agreement with each other, and I’m not mad, woo-hoo!

"Two opinions" seems to be the magic word at Charing Cross, it’s now just wait, and see people from time to time to make sure I haven’t changed my mind (well duhh). My next appointment should see a second opinion on my need for a tracheal shave. If they will do it, and can do it well I hope I can get that sorted soon, because I’d really like to get that out of the way before SRS if possible. Gillian is having a trach shave at the same time as SRS, hers is (um, was) a lot smaller than mine, but if that goes well and Dr Suporn thinks he can reduce mine sufficiently then that is another option.

Anyway I must go and pick up my car, which I left in town last night, driving was obviously not an option. It means a 3 mile walk but it’ll blow some cobwebs away!

Bye for now girls.

xx