Rain and wind, and a lot of stress and expense coming up. Sales and shares badly needed.

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One in several breaks between various storms today. Spring is most definitely here: We've gone from clouds to rain to sun to more clouds to wind to more rain to more sun to heavy rain to cold wind, with snow dusting the peaks, of course. Not enough to show, or even stick around, but it was there briefly. Now it's brilliantly sunny and windy and very cold again. We'll take the rain where we can get it, at this point.

Schedule completely upended again today, with Wings's appointment rescheduled. I had said seven appointments, plus two rounds of testing; actually, it was originally eight, plus the tests, but I whacked one of next week's for now (the one I'd forgotten about, because I thought I'd already canceled it). I don't think any form of bodywork, no matter how ordinarily therapeutic, is a good idea right now until the imaging is done. [It was supposed to be some esophageal work, but . . . no. Not until I know what's going on in my chest, because I can't afford to have them be wrong and do irreparable harm.]

I hope something shows up, seriously, because while on days like today my autoimmune pain is in hyperdrive, this chest pain and it's other attendant symptoms operate on a whole other scale entirely. As I've been saying, I have to find a way to deal with this level of pain and fatigue and, yes, fear, while everyone else effs around with no sense of urgency whatsoever, and I haven't figured out those pieces of this yet. I've got more work to do tonight, a LOT of work lined up for this weekend, and I have GOT to get to the time to try to resolve this platform issue, because I really, really need to start getting these medical bills paid. The stress is killing me. All the rest is cut-and-paste, because my brain is too tired to focus enough to change it. Suffice to say that we need to make some sales, and I need to get the site monetized.

I'm setting two separate goals, as outlined below, because they're both dunning me steadily now. 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). The next goal is two-fold: One is the cost of the ambulance when they transferred me down to Albuquerque, which is $2K; the other is one of the Lovelace doctors, which is $1,500. That's $3,500 total, and 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 be 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 $3,500 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 (a timely reminder, given tomorrow's events);
• 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 supplies for She-Wolf and 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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