Decision Made & Going For It!

[Paolo]

You go, girl.

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

He'll probably burst an aneurysm.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

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--

[Paolo]

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

[EricaAnn (imported)]

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.

[mrt (imported)]

Congrats on getting closer to the newer you!

[kristoff]

Congrats on getting closer to the newer you!

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

[EricaAnn (imported)]

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!

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

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

[lilac (imported)]

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)]

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'

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!