Niaja .... Thank you very much. I sincerely appreciate your kind words.
In the last three months things have really taken off. It's kind of taken me by surprise to be honest, considering I've been at this going on eight years.
In my 4.5 year NBE program, I never used an AA. Only a few times during that period did I use RR/WP, but never anything consistently. That, along with an initial too high of a daily dose of PM didn't do me any favors, in my opinion.
When I switched to HRT 3.5 years ago, I used RR religiously, but never any pharmaceutical grade AA. Only here recently did I start using Bicalutamide, and I think that's made a big improvement.
For the better part of last year I've switched from E2 pills to transdermal patches & gels and that in itself was a big improvement. Also following the protocols set forth in the science threads here on BN have made a big difference in my program.
To answer your question about my mother, I can't really give you an answer, because I don't rightly know. To quote Billy Joe Shaver, "They say my mammy left me, the same day that she had me. She hit the road and never once looked back".
I never knew her. She abandoned us when I was a baby. I've only seen one photo of her, and while she was not overly endowed, she was gorgeous. Crazy, but beautiful. I did know her sister, and she was not endowed, either.
Whenever I'm asked about my birth mother, I'm always reminded of the Billy Joe Shaver song, because every single world of this describes my life to a T. In fact, I'm going to have the title engraved on my headstone.
http://tinyurl.com/279m6zer
I apologize but even at the age of 61, it's amazing how being a child of divorce can fuck up your head all through life. Although I was just a baby, the questions never go away. Even my wife's Dad split when she was a kid, so it's a pain I know all too well.
Anyway ....
MT - Thank you. The first photo they're kind of engorged, and I guess that means growth is happening.
:-)