What it's like to transition late in life — with Lucy Sante
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is writer, critic and artist Lucy Sante. Lucy is the author of several books exploring subcultures and urban history, including Low Life: Lures and Snares of New York and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 2021, at the age of 67, she transitioned, and we’re talking about her new memoir about that experience: I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Everything Is Fine, a podcast for Women Over 40. |
| 0:08.0 | We are your hosts. I'm Kim France. And I'm Jen Romelini. And Jen, how are you doing today? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm good. I mean, there's, you know, it's like my hips hurting. |
| 0:19.0 | I tried to go running on Saturday. |
| 0:21.0 | Really? |
| 0:22.0 | I was like, I need to get some energy out. I'm just going to go for a run and if anyone above a certain age has just |
| 0:30.5 | decided to go for a run you know that you are punished for it very quickly. |
| 0:34.8 | And I did, I sort of like rocked, like I ran walked for, I don't know an hour, and I ran until I couldn't run anymore and then I walked and then I ran until I couldn't run anymore. |
| 0:48.0 | And I felt great afterwards and I woke up the next morning and I was like, did I get run over by a truck? |
| 0:54.0 | Oh no. Like my shoulder hurts, my jaw hurts, my scalp hurts, my hip hurts, my ankle hurts, my knee hurts. |
| 1:02.8 | hurts. Everything on the every sort of like joint on the left side of my body hurts and I'm just like what the |
| 1:09.3 | fuck is this? I should be I'm physically able to run I should be able to just do things and this is a big difference I cannot |
| 1:18.4 | But you did it for an hour like that's crazy like if you're going to start doing some new form of exercise you start small. |
| 1:26.5 | I know what's small I had like a I mean I walk I walked like I walked like 50% of it it wasn't so I ran for a half hour but you ran also you |
| 1:36.8 | live where it's really hilly that's true so you're going to get your muscles are |
| 1:41.9 | going to hurt more because you were going to get your muscles are going |
| 1:43.0 | uphill and stuff. It's not just the muscles is everything. So that's |
| 1:46.3 | happening and then I'm also like in a war with my health. I've never in my life |
| 1:51.5 | gotten involved with what everybody told me to get involved in which is like the |
| 1:56.2 | FSA health care plan. It's like the savings the savings plan. I don't even know if that's the right thing. |
| 2:01.2 | It's the savings plan for health care and I put too much into it at the end of last year not understanding that it goes away. I was like, oh, I'll just put money into this savings account for my health and then I just got a notification there |
| 2:15.8 | were like you have $1,500 you need to spend in two days. I was like I was like emailing the acupuncturist and I was like can I just |
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