Been suffering with a peculiar pain in my abdomen this past week, which I seem to get periodically and no one has been able to diagnose. One doctor thought it might be a hernia. Another thought it might be diverticulitis, or a kidney stone. I, being something of a pessimist and phobic hypochondriac was thinking "cancer! gangrene! invulnerable flesh-eating parasites! that thing from Alien! you're going to die!" (I really, really need to work on my optimism and positive mental imaging, don't I?)

I just read this story in the NY Times:

http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/lab-ready-for-s...

Giggles Seen as Harmful

I will not be able to get here until sometime Monday late evening!

Moving day is tomorrow aftah-newn.

So, here I am a Woman at last; a year since the surgery; finally having worked up the courage to put my self on the block. Sometimes the way men treat me makes me feel like they think they are buying a slave at the cost of dinner or a cup of coffee.

Okay, it was delayed today due to a power outage from around 11am until about an hour ago. Updated now, though.

Did anybody watch today's Oprah show on intersex and the Author of the book "MiddleSex" Interesting show. Richard

Uhhh. Wow.

First off, to all of you who have been following Maiden by Decree, thank you. I'm so happy that you're enjoying the story as it unfolds.

And to think I first passed what I had written around my friends in the Whateley Group of authors and asked if the story was worth going on with...

What ever happened to Princess Showy? She has a wonderful story posted here, *The Guardian Princess]but she seems to have abandoned it. Does anybody know what happened to her?

I have just received an advisory that a new and dangerous virus is being spread under the heading "Invitation", and can be spread by infiltration into the email addresses of any contact. If you receive any communication with this heading the advice is to shut down your unit immediately even if the email is ostensibly from a friend.

Lizzie Jane has returned to BC as promised. It is here because it is a transsexual story that I felt must be told. There is a dark side of transitioning which I hope to show, but there is also a bright side when God is in the transition.

A quick note to anyone who remembers me and my strange tales.

I've been, truth be told, so busy in that alternate reality we call "real life" with my work, and my band and everything, that I've not been able to indulge my writerly instincts of late.

Well, my Hollywood! project is on hold indefinitely. Why?

1. Unforeseen continuity and balance issues.

2. My Summer Romance contest entry has grown to epic proportions (for me). It may not be finished in time for the contest, but since it is upwards of 40000 words twice over that is more than likely for the best.

An interesting and sympathetic article, worth reading. I hope the link works.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/child...

Hugs,

Angharad

I got my wheel back lunch time and have sorted it and the brakes this evening. The good news is, I won't now have to destroy the universe.
Just thought you'd like to know, so you can make forward plans again.

Angharad 8)

has released a new statement concerning the medical necessity of TS surgeries and patients mental and physical health.

http://www.wpath.org/documents/Med%20Nec%20on%202008%20Lette...

I've coped with a fair bit over the last six years of health troubles, so why have just spent the last half hour sitting in my living room crying my eyes out. My left arm was paralysed for more than month, cramps in my hands bend and twist my fingers and I've no control over them, even the drag in my leg that means using a cane to walk, so why does not being able to go to the toilet upset me so much? Everything the doctor has prescribed has had a minor immediate but temporary benefit, and then added added another problem.

Here's the tape of Cathy's radio interview. Use your browser (or iTunes) to download. It's not on the main BC server so it may be slow.

24 Meg MP3 file from WJTN Radio.

So… the adventure continues, or something equally profound or pompous maybe, depending on your point of view.

I was watching one of my favourite series again - CSI Las Vegas. At the end Gil Grissom said something very important I think.
'Men assume, they don't ask about the why. ... It took five people to murder one person, but if only one had asked why he did what he was doing, why he felt unwell, he might have been still alive.'

Well tommorrow morning I have my first therapy session. I sent an email to this Dr. almost 2 weeks ago. I layed out my issues and she sent me a return email and she invited me to call her and talk. It took me another week and a half to work up the nerve to call her. I did and I got her friggin voice mail. Thats okay though, she called me back a little while later.

As promised, here's the update on my meeting with my sisters and the lawyer.

My housemate went with me and stayed right with me through the whole meeting. When we walked in, early, by the way, my sisters were already there, with one of my nieces. None of them would even met my eyes, so things were kinda tense for several minutes.

Thursday 7-17 9:00 PM PDT
We just got her home a few minutes ago, and she is enjoying a hamburger w lots of Katchup.
She wants me to thank everyone for the cyber-get-well-cards. I've been reading them to her on a daily basis.

As I've been a bit preoccupied with other regions lately I thought I'd treat my brain for a change. My old Chambers Thesaurus has begun shedding leaves at an alarming rate, so I thought I'd buy a replacement (as opposed to wandering down to the warehouse and thieving another).

I have to meet with the lawyer Thursday the 17th to settle Mom's will. I am in the second month of my RLT. BOTH my sisters will also have to be there, and they are religiously dead set against me being myself, that is to say, Cathy.

Over on the FictionMania Hyperboard, someone started a discussion of the use of sex-changing viruses in TG stories and someone made a comment about the impossibility of a virus being able to change bone structure. Here's a version of my contribution to that thread:

According to the records, 'Bike' will be one year old on Wednesday, which all being well should be episode number 349. I'm sixteen or so parts missing- not bad I suppose, considering I do have a life outside writing poor fiction. Of those missing I suspect half a dozen were technical glitches, plus a couple of holidays and a hospital appointment.

Aunty Edeyn is all three. She got up for food, earlier and I had to take the computer away to keep her from getting on, anyway.

And yes, I know it's late, but it's Friday AND Summer Vacation... and I'm insomniac.

REW (Roo)

The next part of Totally Insane should be up tomorrow, I have to finish the edit. However, I was a moment ago, looking at the hits list, in eight episodes it has registered 15,205 hits.

She asked me to take her to the hospital when I got home from work last night, and I got her to ER just before 5PM. I just got home (4:15AM), after they admitted her.

I would like to offer some thank yous to the three groups of people important in this little niche world we have.

This is G rated, or should we say TG rated? :-)

This is my first blog post, just to say hi to the community and that I hope to be a good neighbor.

Here's some self description, because often people are curious.

Maddy Bell(http://www.maddybell.com/page600.html )has posted updates on several stories including her latest Nena-sode, and some fanfics- some of which are not posted elsewhere! Erm, hint, hint, oh yes, that includes one of mine (blushes coyly)Whatever Next part 17, with Drew up to his neck in things again- this time the ironing. If you go to the fanfic page, there are two short stories I wrote for the 2008 Gabycon posted as well. Neither will tax your brain too hard and only one is about cycling - honest!

LONDON TIMES OBITUARY OF THE LATE MR COMMON SENSE

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he
was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red
tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable
lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early

Funny parody video (of a climate-change Public Service Announcement) from the Seattle alternative newsweekly, "The Stranger". (Drag queens do not appear until 1:00 into the 2:51 film.)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EIClOemRD8

I'm looking for a story about a bisnessman who stay in a hotel. He asks for some meds to help his head. When he wakes up he is a woman. He comes back again and again and even gets his boss in on the act. They both eventually take the special treatment to become women forever. I really want to read this story again. If anyone can help, I'd really appricate it.

There'll not be an episode of OHOP this evening, as I'm a tad rough. There was a certain room in the flat I hadn't visited since Thursday (first time experience for me), and my GP provided a very thorough remedy... I'm not feeling very creative right now :)

I'm almost done with a story. It's a story about my life. I need help to clean it up and make sure I'm not violating to many of the rules of writing. After all, I'd hate to have the union on my ass.lol.

Thanks
Jessica(smorr24)

That was the one sentence reader comment I got on a story of mine published yesterday at Fictionmania.

The race coverage is pretty good here in the US with one of the cable networks (VS. - www.versus.com) showing each stage live and then showing 4 re-broadcasts throughout the day. They have Phil Liggett, Paul Sherman, Bob Roll, and Craig Hummer doing most of the announcing.

I've been dealing with a lot of stress lately when it comes to my sister. I know people are probably tired of me bloging about it. I'm sorry. Today was extremely stressful for me. After talking about it with a good friend, I desided that it was time to come out to my sister. I am not strong enought to tell her over the phone so I sent her a email.

Somehow, the July 3rd episode did not get posted, so, I've posted it today as 15.5, and naturally, I edited it down to only half a drabble using Erin's technique of no descriptions or tags. Sorry about that.

Love,
Lainie

I told folks that as soon as I got them developed, I'd post a pic of my new look. Short hair with streaks, contacts instead of glasses.

Here I am again being ravaged and churning words out but it is so good to be back writing even at the volume I am doing now. I am starting a kids camp story and will be posted in a few days once the story matures. Without a trace is growing by the day and the story is taking some twists.

Tonight on Spike, during T.N.A. Impact [wrestling] they showed where a wrestler was on three blind dates. Unfortunately, they decided to insult the T.G. community with the first date. Why must they portray the T.G. in an insulting way? It will be shown again on Saturday late night.

Just finished up at Mayo and got all the results back. Not sure what to do yet, as I am still thinking about the choices. Do I stop transitioning so that I can get infusions sub-cutaneously every 2-3 days for the rest of my life, or do I see how long I can survive with no immune system but continue on as myself?