It's time to complete the circle

[GypsyKaren]

Our life force is a circle, we grow within until it’s complete, and then we spread out in waves like ripples on a pond from the drop of a pebble. It’s now my time to complete the circle, it’s now my time to grow.

After a lifetime of dreams and discovery, and with the love and support of my wonderful Kat, I have made the decision to have SRS. As hard a decision I’ve always thought it to be, it really was an easy one to make, and it’s one I’m 100% sure and comfortable about…it’s just my time.

I am hoping to do this next Fall, the following Spring at the latest. I have a lot to do till then, I’ve just started getting my ducks in a row. I will be seeing an endocronologist next soon so I can start hormones, and I have started exchanging e-mails with my surgeon. I will be going to Thailand for Dr. Chettawut, he’s considered to be one of the best in the world, plus the cost will be a lot less than if I had it done here. I will have to stay there for 3 weeks, and I will miss my home, but to me it’s all a price worth paying.

Both Kat and I know there will be problems to overcome, but we will face them together as one, and we’re a team that’s invincible, she’s got my back and I‘ve got hers. I plan on keeping a running account of our journey here in the TS Forum, so that maybe I can help anyone else who is considering the same thing for themselves. We have many wonderful friends who will be there for us, and we hope all of you will keep us in your thoughts and wishes.

Karen

[Siobhan Marie]

Karen, I wish you the very best in the completion of your journey. I will certainly keep you and Kat in my thoughts and prayers. I am honoured to know you and Kat and count you both as friends. I look forward to reading your account.

huge :hugs: and :koc: to you and Kat

Anna Marie x

[JennMW]

Congrats Karen!

I'm so happy for you! I'll be following your progress and am proud to offer whatever meager support I can.

Hugs, Jennifer

[Joy Carter]

:hugs:

[CaptLex]

Karen,

I also feel that I'm finally completing a circle. I knew I was a boy when I was very little, but felt I had no choice and had to spend my lifetime as a girl before that little boy came back to find me.

I'm very happy for you. You're going to have a great year, I'm sure. A new place and a new you! You know I'll be following your progress with great interest.

Wishing you and Kat all the best! :bighug:

[great gg]

You are in my thoughts and prayers. both you and the great Kat. what a team!!! one step at a time and then you'll be closer and closer. in all ways!

[KrazyKat]

Karen, my life partner, I'm so awed by your courage!!

Thank you for sharing your life with me!!

Being quite androgynous myself, I consider this cosmetic surgery, however, I know it goes much deeper for you, and I respect your feelings!!

Now, c'mon, Woman, lets get'er done!!:love:

[Calliope]

Wow, what glorious news! I am so happy for you, Karen.

[Sarahgurl371]

Karen I am very happy for you and your decision. Mostly the whole 100% thing. I wish the best for you.

Secondly, one more time, the love story that you and Kat live is very inspiring. It inspire hope that someday we can all find that kind of love and understanding, beautiful.

So I wish the two of you the best in the future. Good luck! God speed.

[Jenna1561]

Karen,

Congratulations and Good Luck on your journey. I wish you and Kat the best the new year has to offer.


Jenna

[SherriePall]

Karen -- I'm so happy for you (and maybe a little envious). I wish you and Kat the best and I'll keep you both in my prayers.

[KELLYANN]

GYPSY KAREN. I WISH YOU WELL! I UNDERSTAND YOUR DECISION AND WISH YOU THE BEST. GO GIRL!!! i wish you and KAT a very happy new year. HUGS TO YOU KELLYANN

[Marcie Sexton]

Good luck & God bless...

[kerrianna]

Karen, that's great. You seem really in tune with everything so you go girl! :hugs:

I'm so happy for you that you have the support of such a special person in Kat. You are one lucky girl.

Good luck with your journey, and thanks for sharing it.

:<3: :<3:

[sara_also]

Well i think that you can tell br the replies to your post that we are all behind you and Kat. I wish you well on your journey and hope the best for you always.

[michelle19845]

i hope it all goes well for ya.good luck to both of yas !



michelle19845

[ToyGirl]

Happy to hear Karen, one of my GF's just returned from thailand and i had talked to her most everyday while there , sounds like such a wonderfull place. After hearing all the details of her result i can't go anywhere else.

[Robin Leigh]

Wow, Karen! May your transition procede smoothly. :hugs:


Being quite androgynous myself, I consider this cosmetic surgery,

ROFL! With the support Karen has from you KrazyKat, this is going to be a breeze. :happy:

:love: :hugs:

Robin

[Sophia Rearen]

Karen, that's great news. Somehow, this does not surprise me. I'm so excited for you and Kat. What a wonderful inspiration, your partnership, has become.

[Maggie Kay]

I too am so happy for you. Wishing the very best for both of you. Please let us know what you can. I am riveted....

[suzy]

Karen,

The best of luck to you and Kat! I know that the decision wasn't easy but once it is made, and you know that it is the right decision, you are on the right road taking the most direct route. :hugs:

We\ll be here for support and looking forward to hearing about your journey!:love:

[jamie_44]

Karen, I wish the best for both of you. You are fortunate to have such super support.

[joanlynn28]

Karen, I wish both you and KrazyKat well on your journey. I am very familiar with Dr. C.s work over there in Thailand. I close friend of mine choose him to have her surgery, but the lastest thing is she has decided not to have SRS at all and just remain as an non-op TS. As for myself, when my time comes for SRS I will most liking be choosing him as well. His work shown on his website is fantastic especially compared to the butchers poising as surgeons here in the U.S. . I know that you are going to be very pleased with the results by Dr. Chittawa.

[Tracy Lynn]

Karen,

Congratulations on your descision. I wish you both the best of luck. You 2 definitely have something special.

[Scotty]

Congrats on your decision, and I do wish to hear how everything goes between now and then!! :)

[MarieTS]

Dear Karen: I know how you feel. I'm going mad not being able to be totally full time. That has to come soon or I'll be totally off my rocker. Like you, my research has led me to select Thailand, specifically Dr. Supborn's clinic. His procedures and treatment protocols combined with the Thai hospitality and follow-up care (not to mention costs), are the logical choice. So count me in your corner.
One other item, and perhaps this isn't the place to say it, but I think you and Kat are special and you both have the neccessities that will ensure a great post-op future together. I'm told that's a rarity, but for you two it's as close to "a given" as it gets. God bless.

[GypsyKaren]

Oh geez, with all of the love and support all of you share with us, how can we go wrong? The thing that works for us, besides the usual things like love and devotion and such and such, is we see each other as a person, not as a member of any sex or whatever label others find necessary to use in order to bring comfort into their lives. We know there will be bumps in the road to deal with, but we also know we'll be able to handle it because we work and stick together as a team. Plus Kat's not afraid to whack me upside the head when the situation calls for it...

Karen

[great gg]

go Kat!!! and good for you to listen to the wisdom of your beloved.

[Sejd]

Hi Karen, Sounds scary to me, but then again, it's only when we overcome our fears that we truly grow. I understand you have a super supportive wife, and I know from my own case that a supportive partner makes it all possible. Being truly who you feel you are is a fundamental right and you are courageous to step onto the road ahead of you. I will look forward to share in your glorious journey. God spee
hugs :love:
Sejd

[dancinginthedark]

[...] It’s now my time to complete the circle, it’s now my time to grow.
After a lifetime of dreams and discovery, and with the love and support of my wonderful Kat, I have made the decision to have SRS…it’s just my time.
[...]I will have to stay there for 3 weeks, and I will miss my home, but to me it’s all a price worth paying.[...]
Karen

Karen I am so pleased for you. I keep trying to imagine how this must all have felt for you but I can't in all honesty.Still I wanted to take sometime to try feeling this way myself before I posted. Excitement, Joy, Fear, some more excitement, anxiousness and a sense of peace at a decision made and the journey beginning. I think about the changes in store and wonder if I am anything close in thinking that the body I think of as home would have felt all wrong, more than wrong.. completely alien and trapped in cage not designed by a compassionate maker had I been walking in your shoes. And I might see SRS as finally having a body that really was my home. That felt right inside and out. Maybe I'd see it as a journey to my home, to the one I should have been born with. I know I will never fully know how this is in reality so thank you Gk and all the others here who share their stories and journey with us. It does help me and others at least try to walk a mile in your shoes.
Oh and three weeks seemed like a long time to me at first, but thinking now it's just a drop in the bucket considering how long this journey was in the making. And home, you won't miss it even being overseas that long... in my mind home is anywhere my love is ~ long as we were together it doesn't matter where we are I am home. I imagine it is the same for you two. With Kat there with you you'll be home in every way that counts hun. See nothing to miss. :hugs:And Kat your my SS and I'm here for you too. Bank on it.

Love ya,
Mae

[Sheila]

GK and KK,

love and luck to you both

Jess

[Jennaie]

I do wish both of you the best of luck with this decision. I am sure that it was not an easy one to make, I know that if anyone here knows who they are and where they are going, you do Karen. I am proud of you, both of you.:hugs:

[KrazyKat]

Thank you, everyone, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the wonderful best wishes and support!! I had no idea, this humbles me even more!!

Thanks for always being here for us!! You have no idea how much it helps!! I will do all I can to give this back to our community!!

Gotta find a tissue or 2 now, but it's the good kind of crying!!:gh:

[Amy Hepker]

May GOD BLESS you on your journey. May it be a healthful, Safe and complete path for you.

[Tina Dixon]

Wow, you know I never come to this part of the site, may be because I might be a bit afraid of it, I know if I dress often it can consume me, so Karen I guess I'm a bit surprised your going all the way, I wish you the best and I'll be watching and following your progress:hugs: