My dreams and plans of getting SRS have been crushed and I don't know what to do
From https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/3wxryb/my_dreams_and_plans_of_getting_srs_have_been/
>So I live in South Africa, I've been 'transitioning' for the last 7 years and came out/tried to start the process 9 years ago, this has basically consumed my twenties, I've lost my job because of it, I've been treated abhorrently by people, it has turned my life into a living hell on and off for such a long time.
Because of all the instability and turmoil in my life, saving for SRS was mostly impossible. I finally got into a position to save up money in July and I set a goal of saving up R250000 to cover the surgery with Chett, airfare, living expenses and 2 months of downtime (I wanted to take a 2 month break to go and recover) for my mom and I, the plan was to have that saved up by March 2017, a few months after my 30th birthday.
Unfortunately because I live in a 3rd world country with some of the most idiotic and corrupt leaders, the economy is currently crashing, in the last 2 months our currency has lost R2 to the dollar, last week it dropped R2 in 2 days, it's luckily strengthened by a single rand but I don't think it will ever recover and it won't stop dropping, I look at how much value the currency has lost in only one year and I don't feel like I can keep up at this rate.
Just a quick breakdown of how much that R250k is worth:
Last year: $22000
2 months ago: $19000
Last week: $15600 This week: $16600
Every time the currency drops by a rand to the dollar I need to save an extra R19000, with the drop in the last 2 months I now need an extra R38000, I can't keep up with that, I can only save R14000 a month and I'm living like a poor person to be able to afford that.
I've thought about getting credit cards and am in the process of applying but I don't think they'll give me anything more than maybe R50000.
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