rowan {circus gremlin}'s Post

Today as I finished lunch I got a call. Gender Confirmation Center wanted to discuss surgery dates. Friends, I have surgery scheduled for April 9. We still have to wrangle insurance, but this is otherwise perfect timing, letting me get through an aerial rope performance in February and a month of slinging my pro camera and lens around for the circus troupe's yearly show in March. I should be recovered enough for more light photo work in May and some backpacking in July. I'll be back in the air sometime in the fall, with my circus physical therapist's approval.

I cannot express how much of a weight has lifted off my shoulders this afternoon. Even when I haven't been consciously thinking and worrying about this, it's been lurking in the background - a need that wasn't being met, that I had to prod and shepherd along to make sure everything kept up. That part of me can now think about other things and happily anticipate this.