I intended to write this when it was a month to go, and then 10 days to go, and then a week to go but sometimes life gets in the way. So even though 2 days until top surgery is not the poetic reflection I had hoped, sometimes you've just got to write a blog... Continue Reading →
Why Did I Stay
April 2019 I thought Arlo and I were over, January 2020 we're starting to talk about getting engaged.
Some Good Things and Some Bad Things
It's taken me 22 years to realise that sometimes life is just the worst. For Arlo and I October, November, and December have been pretty awful to us. In those three months within our family there has been a number of hospitalisations, cancer diagnoses, and two people died. During this Arlo was (and still is)... Continue Reading →
Splodge
As I mentioned in the Top Surgery post Arlo and I are in the process of saving for their top surgery which is pretty pricey. We're hoping to have Arlo's top surgery booked for Summer 2020 (once we have the money for a deposit of course) and that is a relatively short amount of time... Continue Reading →
Top Surgery
I knew from very early on that Arlo was planning on having top surgery as part of their transition process. What I did not know was how both difficult and expensive that process can turn out to be. In the UK the NHS will pay for most non-cosmetic surgeries without any need for health insurance... Continue Reading →
'N' is for non-binary 