Sky spirits. A lot to do, and sales and shares are very much needed.

Photo copyright Aji, 2018; all rights reserved.

Forbidding, innit?  That was dawn today. Also my mood; some days trigger more memories than others, and so I just have to write it out elsewhere. 

It's been a day for sky spirits anyway. My good deed for the day was rescuing a tiny female Cassin's finch. Wings found her outside our bedroom window on the deck, cold and shaking; she'd hit the window and injured her head, which had a little trickle of dried blood on it. I gently picked her up and carried her over to the bench and sat with her in the sun while she regained her bearings. She actually stayed with me for a while, slowly looking up and around and deciding that she must be safe. She eventually balanced with one foot on my hand and one on my torso, and waited out the dizziness. I left her plenty of room to move so that when she felt confident enough to fly, she could do it, and I just talked to her softly. She looked me in the eye one last time, shook her feathers, gathered herself, and flew away.

Today was River's birthday, so we gave him what every teenage boy wants (a little cash). He's working this week, because the schools here are on Spring Break. It's good to have the help, now that I can't do much. Another appointment on Friday, though, which means more bills, and I've got more work to do today, so here's the rest:

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 (memoir, today, is black holes and breaks in the clouds);
• 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.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Aji, 2018; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.