Being me means having to plan for every contingency.

[agent_dani]

I really don't seem to be able to catch much in the way of breaks when it comes dealing with the various professionals for transition. Sure, I've not had a lot of major issues (there have been some, no doubt,) but there are just so many little issues that have meant various couple days to weeks delays, and it really adds up.

Today I received word from the surgeon's office that they have not received the second letter. I put that in the post nearly three weeks ago, so it's most likely AWOL. Fortunately, I insisted on having a second copy for my own records, so I can fax a copy of it to the surgeon's office tomorrow.

I learned to do this after the problems with my first endo and getting a copy of my own HRT letter; it was two full years after the letter was written before I had a copy, and with no Informed Consent providers operating in the region then, that matter amounted to iron-fisted therapist control over ones transition.

Obviously, this latest isn't a major issue, but I have to wonder just how far out the asymptotic probability curve my particular combination of issues (some big; a lot small) has run.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Don't get me going on the post office! I send that type of mega important document by carrier requiring signature these days. Expensive, but certain and trackable.

I need to renew my passport next year and want to register my change of name upon marriage this time so they'll need my marriage cert and no way is that going in the regular post!

[agent_dani]

I sympathize. Pennsylvania required that I send them the original of a state-issued ID to verify my address (at the same time they were denying my name change) which would mean being without my drivers license for six to nine months, and I wasn't sure they'd send it back (they didn't return the name change order.)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I forgot to say it *is* also possible that Brassard lost it. He seems to be following the grand tradition of fantastic doctor = flaky front office staff; at one point we were told that the payment we'd sent a) didn't arrive and b) if it did (!) it was in US dollars. A bit of emailing back and forth later and sure enough, they found it and everything was correct.

The odds are in favor of your therapist fucking up, in other words, but it also may be that you got a statistically improbable post office or doctor's office failure. :(

[agent_dani]

Wrong therapist. I put this letter in the post.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I suppose that makes my speculations all the more pertinent. :)