Expanding on surgery.
Aug. 27th, 2011 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agent_daniI really glossed over the significance of surgery for myself in my last post and there was a reason for that which I feel merits its own post. Fairly early on in transition I was faced with a question: what if surgery is never within reach? I think it was my therapist who was the first to do so.
I came to realize this was a very real possibility, mostly for financial reasons. Not only do I need to have the funds to pay for the procedure and the related incidentals (travel, etc.) but I also need to have saved enough money to live on - to be able to pay a variety of expenses, including having enough for unplanned expenses - for at least portion of the time I'll be off as the only pay I'll have then is using up my accrued sick and vacation time, which will not likely be enough to cover the entire period.
It's not that I consider it impossible to reach, but I had to recognize the possibility that I may never be able to do so. And I needed to figure out how I would deal with that possibility - how to deal with life if I am never able to have the surgery I very much desire.
I came to realize this was a very real possibility, mostly for financial reasons. Not only do I need to have the funds to pay for the procedure and the related incidentals (travel, etc.) but I also need to have saved enough money to live on - to be able to pay a variety of expenses, including having enough for unplanned expenses - for at least portion of the time I'll be off as the only pay I'll have then is using up my accrued sick and vacation time, which will not likely be enough to cover the entire period.
It's not that I consider it impossible to reach, but I had to recognize the possibility that I may never be able to do so. And I needed to figure out how I would deal with that possibility - how to deal with life if I am never able to have the surgery I very much desire.
