Leeds a calling

[Nigella]

Got a phone call on Friday from the Leeds GIC asking if I wanted to accept an appointment in May.

Well I had to think hard about it, well all of one second anyway. Of course I accepted so my first appointment at the Leeds GIC is May 18th, guess who is starting a chuff chart.

:D

[Sandra]

guess who is starting a chuff chart.



Bloody hell not heard of one of those since we came out of the Army :D

Well we are on the next step sweetheart ....now what was the directions again :tongueout

[Deborah Jane]

Well we are on the next step sweetheart ....now what was the directions again :tongueout

Just follow Nigella, Sandra....She'll LEEDS the way :D

As I said earlier Nigella...Big congrats on this :hugs::hugs:

[boardpuppy]

Congrats on the appointment. One more step on the long road to fulfillment.

Hugs,
Alice

[jenna_woods]

congrations on the appointment hun

[Rianna Humble]

my first appointment at the Leeds GIC is May 18th

31 days Woo Hoo! I'm so glad for you :hugs:

[Shelly Preston]

Congratulations Nigella

I am sure you will be looking forward to it :)

[Elizabeth 66]

Not to sound stupid, but what a I GIC?

[Nigella]

Sarah,

Its a Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) :)

[Elizabeth 66]

Well im so pleased for you then, i sort of worked it out after i posted, but being quite new, im not up on all the terms yet, is that leeds in the uk? and if so, how long has it taken for you to get to go?

anyway good luck, wishing you everything and more!

[Nigella]

Yep its the Leeds in yorkshire. I was referred to them in Feb this year, and its been about 8 weeks from referral to being contacted and then about 4weeks to go so 12 weeks in all from referral to appointment. :)

This is a lot faster than some clinics, where I'm told the wait could be quite a lot longer. :sad:

[PretzelGirl]

Congratulations Nigella!

Now I will ask something. What is a chuff chart? I don't believe I have heard that term before. After Sandra's comment, I am guessing a countdown calendar? In the US Army we called them shorttimer's calendars and they usually had a jet on them symbolizing the flight home.

[Faith_G]

Congratulations, Nigella! :happy:

Don't feel bad, Sue - I had to google "chuff chart to figure it out. :confused:

[Sheila]

now what was the directions again :tongueout

You mean you forgot already, she has only told you 500 million times, and that was only the few hours we visited :D

Nigella & Sandra, you know how pleased I am for you both :hugs: & :love:

[Nigella]

Thanks everyone for your responses. For those who have asked and those who knew, a chuff chart is a list of days which countdown to an event. British military personnel use them generally as a countdown to the end of tour of duty away from loved ones.

Oh by the way mine has had three days ticked off already :D

Did I tell you I was going to LEEDS??

[Rianna Humble]

Did I tell you I was going to LEEDS??

O well, you can't win them all :tongueout {fx}Rianna ducks{/fx}

[GypsyKaren]

Ah yes, Live at Leeds, great Who album...but congrats on the news!

GK

[morgan51]

Congrats. Way to go girl!

[pamela_a]

Congratulations.. Glad to hear.. won't be long you'll be so short you can parachute off a dime.
:hugs:

[EnglishRose]

Being a former Yorkshire lass myself, here's another bright mark for Leeds :) Congratulations on things moving forward!

[Sandra]

Well we have two days left :)

I am nervous and excited all rolled into one, this is sommat big and scary for the both of us, but we have each other to bounce things off.

Don't know if it is me but things here seem to be a bit tense not in a nasty way, it's a bit hard to explain, I think we will both feel better once we have been to Leeds on Tuesday..so until then.....

[pamela_a]

I can understand the tension. It's a big step for both of you. There are many unknowns and the fear of the future. Hang in there Sandra. Nigella is so fortunate to have you by her side. You are a special lady. :hugs:

[Rianna Humble]

Well we have two days left :)

I am nervous and excited all rolled into one, this is sommat big and scary for the both of us, but we have each other to bounce things off.

I can really understand these mixed emotions, but hang in there girls, it'll soon be Tuesday! I hope that the things you are bouncing off each other are more like fluffy toys than saucepans :heehee:

[Sandra]

Thanks Pamela :)

Rianna hmmmm saucepans, now there's an idea :lol:

[Shelly Preston]

Hi Nigella

Good Luck to you both for tomorrow :bh:

I know it will be stressful day but I am sure you can help each other through it

[Sandra]

Well it was interesting to say the least, more or less it was her talking about her life to the consultant psychiatrits who was called Dr Beaini , his name made me chuckle because all I could think of was " Mr Bean", and clinical nurse called Gary.

Questions were asked and one think that was said is that some people are late comers in being TS's then there is those who know from birth, these are the most common ones. The dr did say that while Nigella realised late on in life, it is most likely that the TS tendency 's have always been there, but she did not realise this.

We have some home work to do before the next appt in June, and that is to try and think back and see if anything comes to mind, that at the time she thought nothing of it.

On the way home she did say that she couldn't think of anything, I told her to leave it for now, as I thought she was trying to hard, anyways half way home she said she said, " I used to look in a mirror and see a girl" Bingo, something had risen from the depths of her mind, I looked at her and said that is what he means about it being there from an early age., then it came out that she had tried to make things below look feminine, as she said, "it was a bit like tucking" but as a child would try it.

We have to write all this down for the next session...so it does look like it was there all the time but didn't surface properly until some time later.

[Sheila]

Good to know that things went well, not that some of us doubted they ever would ;) :hugs:

[Rianna Humble]

Well it was interesting to say the least, more or less it was her talking about her life to the consultant psychiatrits who was called Dr Beaini , his name made me chuckle because all I could think of was " Mr Bean"

Just hope you don't call him Dr Rowan next visit :heehee:

Glad to know it went so well, please give Nigella a :bighug: from me

[Kieron Andrew]

Glad things went smoothly, ive heard only good about Dr Beani..so i'm sure things will be fine...all the best for June let us know how it all goes

[Shelly Preston]

Glad to hear it all went well

Good luck for the next visit :hugs:

[Nigella]

Thanks everyone, what a day.

I went being the pessimist, thinking that they would say I wasn't TS, at least I would have been partially prepared if they had.

As it was, it was only a fact finding session, see where I was, what I had achieved on my own and what they needed to do to help.

Whilst Dr Beani wouldn't say I was TS officially, this was not a session to give a diagnosis, he did say there was TS traits there.

Oh by the way, if you need someone to help, then Sandra is the one you want. Once we had explained how she had helped me in my journey, he was rather impressed with the way she handled the whole situation..

One thing that did seem to be assumed was that Sandra would not be with me once either I started the full transition, or at least would not be around at the end. They were soon put right on that, we were an item through thick and thin.

[az_azeel]

im glad things went well for you Nigella.. .. im sure the path will start to get easier now... good luck with the next visit... :bh: