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Help Sorrel and Mustard live their best lives!
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Aim: Please help support my gender affirming surgery and Mustard's ongoing Cushing's treatment
About Mustard
I am starting with Mustard first, because she has less time left than me.
My 11 and 3/4 year old soulmate, mini dachshund has beaten IVDD 3 times - leading to arthritis 🩻for which she has monthly injections. Two months ago, she was diagnosed with Cushing's disease - a condition where your body makes too much natural steroid because of a non-cancerous tumour, usually in the brain 🧠.
She has responded incredibly well to her treatment 💊, growing her fur back, drinking a normal amount, and no longer wetting the bed. She's enjoying life, going for long walks, and playing with toys again.
We maxed out our insurance a month ago. Our renewal quote for next year comes to more than the annual payout limit, so it is no longer viable 📉.
We need help to make her twilight time as comfortable and joyous as possible. 🐾
And then there's this whole thing...
I was born 2 years before section 28 came into effect and left school a year after it ended. I had no idea it even existed. I just thought I was a bad person.
A few years ago, I realised I was gay all along - SURPRISE! (also, that rhymes 🙌🏼) You can't un-gay yourself, who knew 🤣
Reconnecting with the queer community I started to question my gender and everything began falling into place. 🏳️⚧️
I changed my pronouns to they/them in 2023 and in 2024 adopted a new name 🌱 at the same time I came out to my family (thanks for not being horrible! 🤣)
I'm having gender affirming surgery now, for 2 reasons.
The first is the chronic back pain I'm experiencing from binding, made worse by a car crash last year.
The second is the absolute fear the current political climate has created, leaving me feeling it is "now or never".
So if you don't wanna do it for me, do it for mustard dog!