r/TransLater•17 hr. ago
gorlewski
Good News For Me
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I would like to share my last two weeks with everyone as I just sort of need to let some good news out after everything that has gone down in my life.
Two weeks ago I should have been dead. That is right dead. I had a massive double pulmonary embolism that I flew home from St Maarten with. Every doctor and nurse that I have seen in the past two weeks have said the same thing, "You should not have survived the first flight home, let alone the second."
The "bad" news started when I was told that I had to stop my transition right away. I was like I just blew up my life and started this train a rolling in February. I waited 47 years to start this and you are saying I have to stop? Yes I have to stop some of the medicine, the oral Estradiol was not helping me with the clots.
On to the good news, since the US has fantastic medical care I have hit my out of pocket max for the year. I met with my gender doctor yesterday and I now qualify for BA surgery! We have to wait 3 months but I will take it as it will all be fully covered by insurance now. On top of that we will look at slowly introducing the patch back in at 3 months depending on how my recovery goes.
I just wanted to share this with you all as I needed to share with folks who would understand.