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[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

It was fast and easier than I figured. Samonte came with me, bless him. A (medical?) student named Adrian observed. And in the end, we're good to go.


Question/discussion sequence:
- fill out this questionnaire with basic medical background
- mind if I record this
- this assessment is about "stability"
- history of assessment over time
- future plans
- family
- childhood and gender incongruity
- coming out
- sex
- transition to date
- loss of father during childhood (uh... he's been dead for awhile, and was gone before then)
- facial feminization surgery
- my boobs
- the awkward silence when a medical professional calls me "him"
- you're good to go
- Montreal; $1000 two-weeks accomodation at the recovery centre, early 2009 probably? That's a lot better than what I expected: $5000 for short-term accomodations, booked for sometime after the Mayan apocalypse.


I'm getting a haircut.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Bouncesqueeeee! Was it the infamous Dr No?

[hundun.livejournal.com]

Is that the nickname for him? Yeah, he was half of the team.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

He's been known to be called that. He acts like he personally invented Gatekeeping :(

[eva00.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic! You win at being a girl!

[estrellada.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Are you going your testes in a jar?

[hundun.livejournal.com]

Apparantly they send them off to test for malignancies. Dunno why. But in the end, they get tossed in a medical incinerator; closure.

[estrellada.livejournal.com]

That seems odd, as from my understanding it was the functioning of your testes that's distressed you, not any potential malfunctions.

When I had my tonsils out and was considering keeping them, I was told if I did X amount of paperwork and stuff I could keep them after they were examined. However, I didn't plan around it.

I'm always curious about people's relationships with their body parts that become not-part-of-them-anymore.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

I think it's standard when a doctor takes out a piece of tissue. Maybe it has roots in the assumption is that the only tissue you remove is unhealthy.