It’s been a little over a year since a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis scared the hell out of me. Immediately my mind filled with worst case scenarios: blindness, nerve damage, amputations… Today, it’s official that I’ve lost 106lbs (down from 356 to 250). My A1C (blood sugar) is in the…
It comes up time and again these days… Has political correctness gone too far? Is censorship running rampant? Are we inhibiting meaningful contributions to society with PC run amok? We live in a consumerist culture. Each of us acts as citizen and consumer on a daily basis. What we consume…
As a child, nothing appealed to me like reading. I played sports, mountain biked and trained horses, watched Hollywood classics like Bringing Up Baby alongside Terminator 2, and ran wild through the Texas countryside, but ultimately my only peace came when I curled up with a novel. In books, I could be who…
Following yesterday’s post… My first thought was to follow the WPATH solution of finding a therapist first. Please understand I’m not an expert, and I’m a bit of an anarchist, and my hatred of gatekeepers telling me what I feel and whether it’s valid colors every word I’m about to…
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. That’s true literally every day, but today it feels especially true. Today, I called Legacy Community Health Clinic on Montrose in downtown Houston and made an appointment to see a doctor who can prescribe me Testosterone. I’ve agonized for…
I’ve got a surgery coming up on Monday, March 2nd, as I talked about in my last post, and since tomorrow will be largely dedicated to blood work and the weekend to getting a few last things done, I decided today to get my hair cut. I hadn’t done that…
I’ve had some ups and downs with my health over the course of the past 33 years. Chronic mood disorders have plagued me since I was a child, and I was barely a teen when I first realized my “female” parts hated me–undergoing a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at 13 for a…
