It Is 5:03 Pm On Monday, March 03, 2025, And Sydney Has Passed Away In The Arms Of My Father, My Mother,
It is 5:03 pm on Monday, March 03, 2025, and Sydney has passed away in the arms of my father, my mother, and me.
Over the past few years, she’s suffered several episodes and lost her ability to walk and run easily. She’s lost almost all feeling in her rear half. She’s lost her sight and hearing. There were stints where she wouldn’t eat. The past few weeks themselves, she steadily lost control of her bowel movements. She whines in pain and there’s nothing we can do. Her tail doesn’t wag anymore.
Sydney was rescued when she was about a year and a half old. She was a runt, abused by her former owners. We got her after Fumble passed away, and she’s been with me for almost 13 years now. I grew up with her. She’s a strange German shepherd, but I wouldn’t give her for anything else.
She’d always bark at Crosby to shut him up. She liked to play fight and do tug of war. She’d sneak out of the fenced yard by squeezing herself through the spokes. Never a big kisser, always a big sniffer. She picked up pawing from Crosby, occasionally whacking us with no dexterity whatsoever. She always made the funniest groans and grunts when she got riled up. She’d play fetch but never give the ball back. She’d tilt her head, she’d death shake. We never really taught her tricks- she was perfect as she was. She would shed clumps every winter and summer, giving my mom nothing but grief. She was antisocial, preferring to sleep and sit near you rather than actually engage. And that was okay. She liked to burp directly in people’s faces.
But I know she won’t be in pain anymore. Crosby can show her Touchdown and Fumble. She’ll be able to run again and bark whenever she wants. She’ll finally be able to feel her legs again and see and hear better. It’ll be rough, but she’ll be happy.
I pray we gave her the best life we could. She deserves it. She still does. She always will. I’m glad she was here while she was. I pray she was fulfilled and that she knew it was her time so that she can go in peace.
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- Heat lightning on a drive home from work. No rain, just lightning
- Beautiful rainstorms. They wash out the pollen for like a day. Not long, but makes me feel more tolerable
- Tornadoes? Crazy shit. There was a day the sky turned black in the afternoon
- The skid marks on the country road where someone took a joyride. Swerving, even did donuts. Appeared while I was gone, probably in the middle of the night. Doesn’t look like anyone got hurt
- The therapy llamas down the road had babies!!
- The buds of crops sticking through the farm fields
- The other day my family got a box full of like 40+ ears of sweet corn from a stranger. This isn’t even the first time this has happened. We had to get rid of (give away) so much corn
- Whirlpools in flooded creeks
- Air quality alerts. The place I used to live was so consistently smoggy that changes in the air quality were never really announced, nor a big deal
- People riding bikes! Walking dogs! Enjoying the day
- So remember the bridge I mentioned before where the war protestors were? Anyways sometimes there are also Trump supporters on that bridge, but that’s besides the point. Because TODAY (06/11) I saw an old man dressed in red with a Santa hat on and he was just. Flexing??? Like what??
- Two people using FaceTime and sign language
- Tractors twice the size of semis coming down the road
Things I Like Here.
So I moved from my childhood state a few years ago and I’ve been struggling with adjusting ever since, largely because of the drastic negative change in my social life. But life is beautiful, so I wanted to make a list of things I’ve seen since moving here that I couldn’t get back home! You have to appreciate the little things in life. I’m gonna periodically add more as I see them
- “The Oven Bus” which is just a bus with a brick chimney in it. I wanna know what’s going on in there so badly
- All of the sunsets here are beautiful without fail. Don’t matter what time they happen, even if it’s at 4, it’s beautiful. There’s so many colours in them
- The sign I drive past on the way to work that says “WALTZ IS FOR MURDERING THE UNBORN.” I don’t agree with it but it’s fucking hilarious to see, because it’s in the middle of nowhere
- Related, since we live out in the country now, the pro-life religious bulletins that have the most CGI looking babies on them. Like that baby is not real. Honey
- I almost got into an accident once because there are so many dogs down a 55 MPH road that I just kept looking at the dogs
- The church that has six doors outside on their lawn that say “GOD’S DOORS ARE OPEN TO ALL”
- The church that has a progress flag on its flag post and a BLM flag flying under it. I went there once and it’s full of old people. They were so kind. I want to go back there again
- The kind lady at the Chinese takeout restaurant down the road from us who stayed when the restaurant was empty so I could pick up my order. I wanted my brother to get it but he bailed last minute
- The grocery store down the street that my family has wildly different pronunciations of. It’s within walking distance. I’ve never had that before
- The man today who accidentally bought two tickets for himself. Instead of refunding one, he wanted to give away the other one for free
- The mall Santa I see around Christmas time when he’s on his break. Just walking around. High socks and shorts with a Christmas theme, he’s great
- The little girl yesterday who told me she would get a dog and a fish. When I asked her what she would name the dog, she said “Rainbow Pup”
- The parents who use they/them to refer to me. Even though I personally don’t use those pronouns and don’t like them when they’re used in reference to me, it’s a sign of progress
- The little girl whose parents I sold an annual pass to. I’ve seen her four times. She recognizes me each time and runs to give me a hug
- The toddler who tried to hand me her half-eaten cinnamon-dusted timbit when I asked her for a high five
- The kind people at KwikTrip who never look like they don’t want to be there
- My supervisor who shrieks whenever he walks by me because that’s how I greet people so he’s started greeting me like that as well. He’s an absolute truck of a man who looks like Thor
One of the most difficult parts of presenting butch/masc/gnc/androgynous and being a lesbian or wlw is that it’s so difficult to attract anyone.
Like I’m surrounded by people who think I’m mid-transition or think I’m non-binary, even strangers who give me weird looks when I go into a public restroom. Maybe it’s because I’m physically not very attractive but man everyone seems to have game but me
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