Chopadictamy

This is a story that touched my heart and I had to share. It has been edited for brevity and to protect the inocent.

Renee is recovering from the surgery that she's been dreaming of for decades.

"Since I was about 13, I always knew something was different”.

She used to be Richard; a green beret specialist in Vietnam. A tough guy who privately dreamed of wearing dresses.

"It was weird cause as much as I wanted to dress like a lady, I didn't say anything.

She was in the military for over 20 years and married twice. She says she (at the time he) eventually started to dress like a woman, but switched back into the uniform for official duties.

"A lot of these transgender patients who try to be men, they take on masculine jobs they become labor struck, drivers, police men, soldiers," said Dr. Sherman Leis, with The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, says people with gender identity issues often try to over compensate.

Here’s the kicker, she is 77, and while genital re-assignment surgery is complicated, age, as long as there are not medical problems, usually isn't an issue.

Renee says she waited until her wife died to have the surgery, and finally feels normal.


"I'm happy good, as happy as any woman could be," said Renee.

The surgery can be expensive, $20,000. It's something that Renee has been saving for almost all her life. Transgender surgeries are not tracked, but Dr. Leis says his numbers are up.

So that's the story....Uncle Bob's Take:

One of the main components of Obamacare will be the treatment of late in life health needs of our seasoned citizens. There will be procedures that will be denied based on age and cost of treatment.

Government will ok the spending of "X" on a procedure for a young person yet to experience life (or should Uncle Bob say pay the huge increases in taxes that will soon be coming to pay for this boondoogle). On the flip side our seasoned citizens (who are sucking funds out of social security) will be denied that same procedure due to the cost as they've already lived the good life. Pop a pill as Obama said during one of his many new conferences.

Obama surely got the majority of the transgender vote last fall, yet Obamacare will show no favorites. Sensing this concern Renee knew she/he needed the Chopadictamy sooner than later. Same is probably true for the reverse, sister...er rather brother... procedure, Addadictamy. Will keep a sharp eye out for that story.