Friday, January 31, 2014

Starbucks!


Final frontier achieved...and "T" update

My co-worker encouraged me to finally approach a barista at Starbucks and tell them about the name change. She was astounded, as well she should have been, that I hadn't told anyone there yet about it.

So I did it.

I approached my favorite barista "Kate" (funnily enough) and let her know that in August I had changed my name and gender and was now "Jake;" if she could pass the word on, that would be great.  She was very gracious and congratulated me and said she'd help me out.

So THAT happened today.

In other news, my levels were drawn a few weeks ago and they were through the roof.  I had been on six pumps since December.  I also lost about 30 lbs in that same time frame, so I think the combination sent my "T' levels skyrocketing.  Dr. Thorp was not super happy with the combination of super high T and kind of high liver function test, so she dropped me back down to five pumps. I've been doing that for a week and the changes have continued.

As of today, my voice is quite lower than it was even a month ago, and for sure lower than it was in May when I started. I did a voice recording for comparison.

May 26, 2013
January 30, 2014

So that's what's going on.