An improved She-Wolf, and two medical bills covered. Next one's on deck; sales and shares very much needed.

Photo copyright Wings, 2018; all rights reserved.

As you can see, She-Wolf's feeling better. She's still very tired compared to her usual lively self, but she's been much more lively than the past couple of days, and far more engaged. She even ran out to meet us when we got back from running errands. Part of it is no doubt being back on the regular daily dose of pred, but I'm also sure the good vibes are helping, too, so please keep sending them to her. And thank you, all of you.

Today was crazybusy, tomorrow's more of the same, and frankly, the rest of the next two weeks promises to be just like this. I'm operating on very little sleep — my chest and breathing woke me up at 2 AM again insisting that they were not going to be able to do this (where "this" equals, you know, living) — and so I spent most of the rest of the night, post-nitro, worrying about whether, if I did manage to go back to sleep, I'd actually wake up. I'll probably try to go to sleep early tonight, so most of the rest is cut and paste, with one important change to the graf just below. 

The overall goal is my $25K+ in emergency medical bills. I've been trying to raise an initial $1,700 to take care of two specific bills: the local ambulance and one hospitalist's fee. We're $145 of the way toward it. Those are now covered (thank you, thank you again); along about Wednesday, I'll be writing out the checks for them. The next goal is going to be the cost of the ambulance when they transferred me down to Albuquerque, which is $2K. That's the next phase of all this with regard to the new platform. Then I can turn my attention to the really big ones, which are the hospital bills themselves (Lovelace in particular is going to bad, because, well, cardiac cath). A caveat: I have a lot of kinks to get worked out yet, but PayPal is now theoretically linked to the progress meter on the site. I say "theoretically," because I've just discovered that I apparently have to set up at least one other page to make the subscription "purchase" possible. Eventually, if you subscribe via PayPal (it's a monthly thing like Patreon), it will show, although for now the only way to do it is to hit the PayPal "Subscribe" button. I'm hoping to get that figured out and fixed tomorrow. I also need to figure out how to pin it to the main page, so for now, the only way to access it is here. Please share this link around on social media and elsewhere. I still need to raise the $2,000 as fast as possible, because there are thousands' worth of hospital bills stacked up behind it. It also means that we need sales and I need to get my subscription platform up and running (and you can still subscribe via PayPal even now). So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (what lives here, and when and where);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills, and now Wings's too);
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of food for the half-feral pack;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

Please check out the new platform, share the links, get your friends to participate. I've got a long road ahead of me, just in terms of diagnosis and, I hope, eventually treatment. Being able to pay off the medical bills will go a long way toward keeping me as healthy as possible in the meantime. Thanks, everybody, from both of us.

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