Please bear in mind that I'm writing about the UK. Your experience may vary!
I wrote to my GP on Monday, confirming my wish to be referred for a Gender Identity Clinic, adding that I would also like an Orchidectomy. As an elective procedure (and not being performed at the same time as GRS) there's likely to be a fairly long wait for an NHS date.
Nothing back from my GP yet (no surprise there) but I have been checking if my private scheme includes Orchi - yes it does. I rejoined the health scheme earlier in the year and there's a 6 month restriction before you can have any treatment, that expires next Sunday!! One condition is that I must have a GP referral so not 100% will get that soon (but if you don't ask then you definitely won't get!)
One bonus - I received a £20 M&S gift card when I rejoined. Finally yesterday drove to an M&S Outlet Store (Marks & Spencer branded remainders & discontinued lines). I picked up 2 cotton tie up short skirts at £10 each and a long stripey top for £5. All size 16. So cost me a fiver! Oh, two of those items were the last size 16 on the rails!
Update: List price for the skirts was £17.50 each, top was £14. So £49 worth of clothes for a fiver!
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Sometimes
It’s the little things that lift you up!
I just booked some workshop time fo get two of my bikes back on the road, it’s less a case of having the money but need to have the machines running! A third machine may well follow - whoever said bikes were for the poor really meant that they make you poor! Guess it’s the baked bean diet again- lol
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Baked beans
For wind-assisted riding?
wind? that's...
broken, too !
It's probably possible to get
It's probably possible to get a bicycle for ~€300 - €500 in a megastore (maybe even less). On the upper end only the sky is the limit. I saw a bicycle for ~€10k in a catalogue lately. When it came to repairs I only needed patches for the tubes and a new chain. I admit: I only rode ~1.5k km with it, and sometime after that it died the rusty death.
Long before you get to my age ...
Long before you get to my age, you should seriously consider trading the road bikes for a "granny bike." And look for venues that don't have lotsa cars and fast bikers whizzing 12 inches off your port side.
Watched a youtube video about this in Netherlands where "granny bikes" are the norm and are well supported by the infrastructure. Wish we had the same.
Sara
Between the wrinkles, the orthopedic shoes, and nine decades of gravity, it is really hard to be alluring. My icon, you ask? It is the last picture I allowed to escape the camera ... back before most BC authors were born.
Orchidectomy then GRS
It might be worth discussing with surgeon. There are two issues. Scaring and shrinkage. Scar tissue is less flexible which some grs surgeons don't like as it might give less material. Then there is shrinkage with nothing to keep it stretched leading to less tissue.
I believe there are different techniques to reduce those issues, but something you would need to discuss with the surgeon.