There will be some more traffic here, and this blog is long overdue for an update. However, I have minimal free time these days, so this is will be brief.

While I'd been putting myself in position to leave the country for years, there were numerous complications along the way. After the election, I knew I needed to make leaving my top priority. And after the inauguration, I knew I needed to leave as soon as physically possible. I was holding a passport that I had good reason to believe might be invalidated any day. I'm very fortunate that I was in a position to leave at all. Countless trans and/or non-binary folks are not. I'm an older person with limited financial and social resources, along with a genetic condition that would soon drive me into debt under the US healthcare system unless I quit a job I care very much about and went to work for the highest bidder. And that assumes that the ACA's pre-existing condition clause isn't eliminated, which would probably make care entirely inaccessible to me. It's very painful to admit you're a vulnerable minority whose best option is to flee and live to fight another day.

I may have mentioned it before, but I care so deeply about my work because when I grew up, media was a lifeline and an escape for me. It is rare for someone like me to have a voice in the current media landscape. I want to do everything I can to preserve that voice, because while not everyone may connect to my writing, I know that it reaches people who need to find it.

Medical fiction is a genre with at least as much diversity as the field of medicine itself. This story will not appeal to everyone, but this is my effort to do what was asked of me and adhere to the guidance I was given while incorporating elements I value. If you enjoy medical stories and would like to see more in the genre or would like to support me as a writer (or both?!), I hope you will show your enthusiastic support for my latest story.

Wishing you love, kindness, and the strength to endure and fight for a better world for all,

~Yim