Shrunken Heads

I woke up at 11am at Waffles house. At 2:15pm I had an appointment in the city. Without any other transport I took Waffles' bike and shot off. I think I must have broken like a time record or something.

Anyway so I managed to catch my train to the city then catch a taxi to the Shrinks office.

Yes! Today I got to see my psychiatrist for the first time. It was a 45 minute session where he asked me all these questions about my childhood, my parents and a bunch of other crap.

I had to bring my meds so I did a show and tell.
And yeh.. .he wants me off T..Until I get all the appropriate test done something something.
But it was only a suggestion.
And... yeh I should put my health first but with the itty bity teeny weenie yellow pokla dot amount of testogel Im taking.. its..just ..yeh..sorry my brain isnt functioning well... whats the word Im after..I dunno.

I just think its ridiculous.

Moving on.

At the end of the session he gave me a brief diagnosis.
Guess what?
Im classic Trangendered.
I freaking love that title. Makes me sound like a Magnum Icecream.
Also a contributor to me being trans is that .. Im a nervous person.

That I find being and acting 'butch' is a good defense.

Which is pretty spot on.

Now the plan with this guy is as follows -
In the next three months I must have 6 sessions with him (Check: booked and booked)

I must see another Shrink and they must also agree with my first shrink (Check:Found the guy)

I must also see psychologist (This is gonna take a while... stupid bastards are expensive. *cough* $600 *cough cough*)

Then when they are all in agreement I can start my hormonal ther-rape-me (sorry, love the joke. Expect to hear it again!)

So after the shrink I decided to walk back to the city (Read: Get lost and just happen to end up in the city anyway). I then walked to a place called "Second Story" Or storey.. or whatever the f^ck they wanna call themselves.

They are a youth group kind of thing and they sort of..well..specialise in Gay/Trans Youth.

Waffles Goes to their get together.
What a champ ;)

So they welcomed me in and they knew a SHIT load. We talked for probably 40 minutes about everything and anything. They managed to get answers out of me in a very passive and non-intrusive way. And then loaded me up with pamphlets and such.

One of them is for B FRIEND which is like a trans buddy system. Looks good and I think it would be worth giving them a ring.

The woman who runs the eve-olve (girls liking other girl section. The boys one is called.. inside out, I think) anyway her name is Tiff. So Tiff told me pretty much everything that I probably should have known and such.

So lets get on with the good news.

By law you must have 2 irreversable stages in your transition before you can be LEGALLY MALE. Hormonal therapy origanally wasnt included. Which meant that you'd need to take T, Chest surgery and then have something downstairs removed.

Ouch.

I...Id rather keep that

And thankfully I can as Hormone Therapy gets added to the irreversable stage list!

Tiff was also kind enough to give me a detailed account of chest surgery. Where its done, how many surgeons, what the pay plan is, am I covered by medicare ...So yeh.. that was really damn awesome.

Umm... that pretty much concludes my day (well, it doesnt but the parts that matter anyway)

Oh.. if I havent mentioned it Ill do it now - Yeh, I got in trouble at work. Well.. the buck was passed to me anyhow. So the Store manager is trying to relocate me (have me working in a different section of the store) but tomorrow Im just gonna tell him I quit.

Kinda sad.

A girl at work opened up to me and said that a lot of people there are feeling awkward 'cause they dont wanna offend me or they dont know how to talk to me. Word had spread from the Deli that Im transitioning.

Umm apart from that Im thinking about getting a haircut again. Something like a mohawk.

Err.... I love my girlfriend. I really really do. I think she is fabulous. I wish she was here right now to give me more support but obviously under the circumstances she cant so Im infinately grateful of her efforts to keep me happy and keep me going dispite the distance.

And thats it for this blog then! Unless I get around to making a video tonight.. if the damn Camera wants to work...