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The situation is getting more complicated every day. We have received another update from the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition, who have confirmed that from now on, only endocrinologists attached to university hospitals are eligible for submitting off-label medication applications for HRT. There are a grand total of three such clinics in the entire country for potentially thousands of transgender patients, and the one in Budapest, the capital, has already announced before the regulation was even published that they will only serve patients under their jurisdiction based on their home address (which is bad considering the city's jurisdiction is divided between more than a dozen hospitals). This is a huge setback as previously any endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist and andrologist with a license to practice in the country was theoretically eligible for submitting applications, so we might be looking at the 1-3-year waiting lists common in Western Europe going forward. This is made even weirder by the fact that existing off-label permits will stay in effect, so patients who are already legally undergoing HRT at a private practitioner can continue to do so, but the same doctor can no longer take on new patients. The only advice the trans self-help group could give me was to personally petition the hospital's board and involve their patient's rights representative, reiterate that I was directed towards them by the Institute in accordance with their new regulations, and keep bothering them, refusing to take no for an answer, until they agree to provide my medically necessary care. As you can imagine, having to de facto become a trans rights advocate is not exactly an encouraging prospect with my social anxiety and non-existent persuasion skills, but my only other option is to start reaching out to foreign private clinics (which I might end up having to do anyway if the waiting lists prove to be as long as I suspect).
 
As I mentioned in another thread I hate visiting my dad, I'll tell you why: he has early dementia. He declined so badly: he can't take the public transport alone anymore, he can't put his jacket on and off, he panics a bit when something goes wrong or changes and when he has to descent or ascent the stairs.

I'm not looking forward to see him decline more. He used to be a jokester, he'd tell jokes like: "do you know why carrots are good for your eyes? Did you ever see a rabbit with glasses?" He was so intelligent, he speaks 3 languages, was a translator for more than 25 years.

It pains me more than you can imagine, I don't want to remember him for the shell he'll become, I want to remember him like he used to. But I'm starting to forget how he was, he's changed so much since I was 15. In case you're wondering, the dementia is recent.

But he just lost all his joy, his spark as you can call it ever since my mom decided to divorce him. I guess you can say a part of him died that day, now I'm waiting for the other part to follow.
 
I feel for you. My mom had dementia and passed away three years ago. I was there with her, and my family even hired caregivers to look after her full-time. Before her decline, she was always a calm and pleasant person. Very talkative, always smiling, good-humored. In her last days, she could hardly talk, and she was often sad. It broke my heart to see her like that every day. I wish there were some comforting words I could offer. Just spend some time with your dad.
 
Ah well, my desperate idea to try and procure an emergency supply of the same medications I've been prescribed by my doctor from an online pharmacy died a swift death as it turns out there are no sellers whatsoever that would ship to the European Union. So now it's certain that I'll have to medically detransition until I can physically get in front of a doctor and who knows how long that waiting list will be. Guess I'll have to inform my therapist tomorrow that depending on how long I'll have to wait, my mental state could deteriorate enough to erase most of the progress I've achieved in the past three months as most people I've been in contact with reported that the anxiety attacks, mood swings and intrusive self-hating thoughts return in full force within days of stopping the treatment.

This is gonna suck.
 
@Fantasy Lover:

I'm the one who most regularly visits with my mother. It'll be three years next May that she went into long-term care for dementia. I don't do the power-of-attorney stuff. I made a point of declining that because I know how easily I can be pressured into things that shouldn't be done. At this point, she's still aware of herself, still interested in doing things, in talking with people. Memory is declining, so is vocabulary, and at least she's in good hands when I can't be there.

That's what I keep trying to remember.
 
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