I've been working towards top surgery for about five years. While it makes me uncomfortable to ask for help, I know my incredible community - the greatest blessing in my life - wants to support me during this difficult, but exciting, patch of time. I will be taking six weeks off from my demanding full-time job for surgery and subsequent recovery. While I am lucky to be able to receive PFMLA, I will be receiving substantially less than my regular salary, and will also have a waiting period. This will be a challenge during a time where a financial cushion would ease a lot of stress. If you feel easily able to do so, financial support would be extremely helpful and make it possible for me to make fewer decisions about food and medical supplies amid bottom-line items like rent and utilities. I would also welcome support with food during the early weeks of my recovery, as I will have very limited mobility. With chronic health complications from long covid, I am foreseeing a difficult month post-op, even as I will be grateful for this longed-for procedure!
I am pescatarian, cannot eat tree nuts, and avoid other nuts. Otherwise I am open to many different kinds of foods.