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You go, girl.

Just don't let that little guy from Camp see those boobs again.

He'll probably burst an aneurysm.

Paolo wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:37 am You go, girl.

Just don't let that little guy from Camp see those boobs again.

He'll probably burst an aneurysm.

I'd pay to see that reaction! --FLO--

I honestly thought I was gonna have to get up and kill him, then Erica promptly put him in his place!

Hi Everyone,

Once again, I've made another decision to go for it on my road of transition. Next Friday, January 25th I'm going into Dr. Konior, a very good plastic surgeon in this area, for a follicular unit hair transplant procedure.

He is going to transplant 2000 hairs from the back of my neck to my forehead area in order to create a more natural female hair line for me. Needless to say...I'm very excited!

The procedure is going to take about 5 hours to accomplish and is done under a local anesthesia.

Sometime in March I'm going to return to him to have an upper lip lift in order to reduce the distance between the bottom of my nose and my upper lip. Another procedure to more feminize the appearance of my face.

Congrats on getting closer to the newer you!

mrt (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:50 am Congrats on getting closer to the newer you!

Ditto that girlfriend. We gonna see you again this summer? Have to go club crawling again!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the hair transplant procedure went very well. The good doctor implanted 2150 hair grafts onto my forehead.

He started out by sketching my new hair line on my forehead. He then handed me a mirror and asked me what I thought. My response was "can you really move my hair line that far forward?" He responded "of course!" He even gave me a little bit of a widow's peak right in the middle of my forehead. I now have a very female hairline.

Needless to say, I now have hair in areas I never had hair in before!

The whole procedure took almost 7 hours to complete.

The worst part is the donor area on the back of my head. It's held together by almost 50 staples and WOW, does it hurt! My face and eyes are also very swollen and that's going to take a few days to go down.

When it's all said and done...it will be well worth it. You know the old saying...no pain, no gain!

Idon't know what we'll do with you, you just get better looking all the time. --FLO--

Hey Erica, I'm very happy with all your progress. As I was reading your post, I could just hear your voice in my mind. Made me smile. Hope to see you this year again. Take Care and say hello to your wife for me.

big hugs, Lilac

EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:46 am Hi Everyone,

It's been awhile since I've posted

and no I haven't dropped off the face of the plant!

Things have been going very well with only a one or two down sides.

The good things far out weigh the bad and here are just a few of them.

My recent hair transplants are doing well. As predicted by my surgeon, most of the hair shafts have fallen out, but I'm now beginning to sprout all sorts of new hair in the area, some are now as long as a quarter of an inch. It's a long process and you just have to be patient and let them grow naturally. When its all done they're going to look great!

I'm now 2 years post castration and still firmly believe that it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Between the castration and the female hormones, the "boy parts" don't work anymore, but that's just fine with me as I never had any love for them in the first place.

Speaking of female hormones, they continue to do their job on me. My doctor now has me on 0.3 cc's of injectable estrogen and 1.25 cc's of injectable progesterone weekly and all I can say is WOW! My breasts have now reached a "C" cup in size, my facial features continue to soften and have become so much more feminine in appearance. My hips continue to develop and I now have a 7" differential between my waist and my hips. Needless to say, male jeans do not fit me anymore. Too tight in the hips and too big in the waistline. My butt is now nice and rounded and I definitely have female thighs. It's absolutely wonderful!

I had my nose pierced a little over two weeks ago and I now have a 1 mm cubic zirconium stud in my left nostril. I had been thinking of doing this for almost 4 months and final got it done. I just love it and it looks so cute!

I have continued to find a great deal of acceptance for me in my transition process, though it has now been 8 months since I went full time, there has been NO acceptance by my parents or my brother and there will probably never will be. I spoke with my father's wife several weeks ago and she had no problem telling me that what I'm doing is against God's word in the Bible. She also told me that my mother still holds a glimmer of hope that I'll return to my former self. I let her know that that will never happen and asked her to pass it on. I don't even know if you can consider it transition anymore as I now live 24/7 as a women and don't even own any male clothing anymore. I kind of feel that my transition into "me" is now completed.

As I see it, it's their loss not mine for they will never have the opportunity to know the "real me", but if that's the worse price I have to pay to finally be "me", I'm more than willing to pay it.

I've changed my hair. I'm no longer have long platinum blond hair. I'm now a brunette, medium golden brown, and cut my hair into a concave bob style with bangs to cover up the hair transplants until they grow out. I just love it and have received quite a few compliments on it. It's much more complimentary on my skin tone and looks very very feminine.

I'

EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:22 pm m 4 week away from having my lip lift surgery which will reduce the

distance between the bottom of my nose and my upper lip making my features even more feminine.

I'm also just 5 months away from my trip to Colorado and to see Dr. Marci Bowers for the final surgical procedure, SRS. I'm really looking forward to it and the final completion of the project I began almost 2-1/2 years ago.

For those of you that are just starting down this road of transition or have been considering transition, don't let your fear of the unknown hold you back from being the person you really feel you are. Fear will paralyze you. Take the chance and seize the opportunity. If I can do it, you can too. I have never been happier in my life and will never ever regret my decision to "go for it." Life is too short to spend it being unhappy!

thats realy great i am glade your doing good

Hi Erica Ann,

It does me a lot of good to read about your journey. Usually I'm very upbeat about my own path, with occasional but generally short-lived problems, like family reactions, frustration with the pace of electrolysis and similar things. Today is one of the occasional times when I was feeling kind of down for several hours. In general, though, this is very much the happiest time of my life.

Reading your latest post has helped get me back to my typical up-beat emotional state.

Thanks for sharing your story.

Danya

Well? When do you post a new pix? I always dug brunettes! Great news on everything. It sounds like your life is really moving from the "transition" to standard Female. Congrats! Sorry to hear the family is still wigging out. Danya had a book (Can't remember the title) that was a good one for people that are freaking out. Maybe she can post the title?

Stay in touch! Are you going to the MOM again? This time I'll try to set aside more time pub crawling.

It is always a pleasure to hear from Erica Ann. --FLO--

MrT,

Friends and family who are willing to open their hearts and minds to what their TS loved one is experiencing and are open to getting some help in understanding their own emotions, and learning how they can be supportive besides may find this book very useful.

The book is "True Selves - Understanding Transsexualism for Families, Friends, Coworkers and Helping Professionals". Published in 1996, it was written by Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley. I bought it on Amazon.com.

Like Erica Ann, I'm having little problem at all with coworkers at this early point, anyway. My family, though, may turn out to be more problematic. Time will tell.

My good friend MLF #1 (my lesbian friend #1 and yes there is a #2) was struggling with her own emotions over my identifying as another gender. Fortunately, we're able to communicate freely. She read the book and found it very helpful.

Her attitude is now very different. She just told me she saw a dress advertised by JCPenney on TV and thought "that would look really good on Danya."

My own religiously conservative brother has ordered the book. I'm hopeful he will have read it by the time I visit him this coming weekend.

EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:11 am For those of you that are just starting down this road of transition or have been considering transition, don't let your fear of the unknown hold you back from being the person you really feel you are. Fear will paralyze you. Take the chance and seize the opportunity. If I can do it, you can too. I have never been happier in my life and will never ever regret my decision to "go for it." Life is too short to spend it being unhappy!

Well said! I wrote that passage directly into my diary. The fear of the unknown has held me back too long.

Congratulations on your transitioning and all you're doing. It's good to read these personal threads as I know I am heading in the same direction. I'm impressed how well the hormones are doing with feminising your body. "C" cup sized breasts, wow! I hope mine get that big from hormones.

You go girl, and don't stop! Looking forward to an in-person meet up to review progress and examine the martini glasses in depth. See you at the MoM. Maybe we might meet up with your awe-struck admirer at Camp again!

Hi Everyone,

Well this coming Wednesday is the big day I've been waiting for for almost 2 months now. Wednesday morning I'll be at my plastic surgeon's office for my long awaited lip lift procedure [quote="Erica

EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:11 am Ann (imported)" time=1200637320]
to reduce the distance

between the bottom of my nose and my upper lip.
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This surgery will add a more feminine appearance to my face.

My instructions to the surgeon are going to be to reduce the distance as much as possible without making my upper lip too large and to still be able to retain the ability to fully close my mouth.

I'm really excited and I can't wait to see the outcome.

Four months and counting to the big date in Trinidad Colorado for the final procedure and my official entry into the "girl's club."

Hi Erica Ann,

I've been giving some thought to that lip lift procedure myself! I must say, though, that you already look beautiful the way you are but I understand the desire to change further. When I first thought of transitioning, I didn't think I'd care at all about things like lip lifts. I'm finding more and more that I do!

I briefly met Marcie Bowers yesterday at the Trans Health Fair. I had no idea she was so tall. She, too, is beautiful.

-Danya

I agree - Dr Marcie is a cute "babe".

So how did the fair go? I have conflicting mental images. Fair = Cotton Candy and Large buckets of fried foods in my mind... Can't quite see how this all adds up. Motorcycles in round cages of doom and pronto pups...

Hi Everyone,

Well yesterday was surgery day for my lip lift/reduction. Everything went real well though I'm a bit swollen today.

I arrived at the doctor's offices at 6:30 AM and was out the door at 8:30 AM. He sketched on my face the amount of skin he could remove from under my nose and it looked good. The next step was the administration of several shots of local anesthesia in the area under my nose. While he waited for the local to take effect they wrapped my hair in a sterile covering and placed a warm blanket over me while I laid on the operating table. The last step was to place a blindfold over my eyes to protect them from the extremely bright operating lights. The rest of the procedure went quickly.

I now have about 12-15 stitches in the crease between my nose and face to hold the incision together which are to come out in a week. He evened out my upper lip which he told me was uneven by about 0.5 cm from one side to the other.

So far , so good. I can't wait to see the real results once the swelling goes down.

In the mean time, I'm going to spending some quality time with frozen peas on my face.

Erica Ann,

Congratulations on having the lip lift/reduction work finished. It sounds like this is a relatively minor procedure but one that gives great results. I can't wait to hear how much you like the end result.

-Danya

Hi Everyone,

Well the swelling is all gone and the stitches are out and the lip lift came out real well as you can see from my new avatar. This photo was taken about a week ago at the big Be-All conference. I love the results. As my doctor said, it's a subtle but dramatic change and I feel its provides a more feminine look to my facial features.

The hair color has also changed again this time to a dark red or auburn color, which I dearly love and am going to keep for awhile.

Other than that, things have been going real well. The hormone therapy continues to it's job in feminizing my face and body. Things are going well in the office and on my job and I've noticed that I've been getting some smiles and nice looks from men lately. I've also been getting mam'ed a lot more recently, which is nice.

No new news on either one of the family fronts. I haven't spoken to them now in almost two years now and my spouse's family is split on the issue of me. Some of them have accepted me, but the vast majority have turned their backs on me and have made it pretty clear that they don't want me around.

The GRS is now only a little over 3 months away and I can hardly wait for the "big event." Something that I've wanted for such a very long time. To finally have a match between my body and my mind.

I've quit smoking 22 days ago in preparation of the surgery date. This is a requirement of Dr. Bowers and probably a good one. Starting to feel better since I quit. Much easier to breath and my sense of smell is improving.

I've also been trying to diet and lose some weight. I've lost 8 pounds in two weeks now and hope to lose another 12 pounds in the next few months.

Love your new look. You look younger with the red hair and the surgery is subtle but great!

3 Months to the OR. You know we are all praying for a quick recovery. Where and when do we send the cards and flowers!? It seems like yesterday that you said it was a year off!

Sorry to hear about the family issues. I think some of this is just idiocy but hopefully some of it is just going to be solved by time. I think some people are just not aware at all that this does happen in the world and that not everyone is born with the right bits... And for those people the ignorance makes it hard(er) to walk a mile in your shoes. I think there is also some anger that your taking away the person they knew (Or thought they knew)

Hi MRT,

Yes, time does fly by when you're having fun and thanks for the wonderful compliment. I do so appreciate it!

In response to your inquiry, I will be admitted to Mount San Rafael Hospital on Friday morning, September 19th, surgery day and if everything goes according to plan, I will be discharged on Thursday, September 25th.

The hospital is located at 410 Benedicta Ave., Trinidad, CO 81082. Phone number is (719) 846-9213.

I hope to hear from you and all of my friends during this period of time as all I will be doing is laying around.