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Especially these two:
They're not.
The little Crow Monster, there on the right, along with some help from Coyote and Raven, managed to injure me first thing this morning. I get halfway down (not even halfway; try the top) the stairs and Raven's already whining and dancing to be let out. The two monster twins are outside whining and dancing to be let in. And because Raven gets turfy, I make him stay behind me while I push them away from the door. It's the first thing I do in the morning, and today reminded me why that's such a staggeringly bad idea.
Or, rather, falling-down bad. Because while I was scooping the two pups out of the way, Crow made another pass and got her foot wedged under mine just as I was putting it down. I didn't even get a chance to put any weight on it, so she wasn't hurt, just startled, but it knocked me off balance and I slammed forward face-first; my ankles doubled over and hit the deck first, then knees and hands simultaneously, all bearing the full brunt of my weight in a split second.
I'm not moving so well now today.
The vet came out to look at Shade, because she's showing disturbing signs of her mother's Cushing's. The vet still thinks it's allergy, but her liver enzymes are elevated, so labs anyway and some compounded allergy shots. Gah. I have no idea what this going to run. And needless to say, I was not out there to hold her this time; between yesterday's huge episode flare (still ongoing) and today's fall, it took everything I had just to go along with Wings to pick up supplies in town. I didn't even have to carry anything, and it still wiped me out. I hope this is just a flare and not a permanent change, because I am seriously not up for this over the long term yet.
Wings has a couple of new pieces, both Warrior Woman pins, that will probably be done tonight, and if I can, I'll get them up on the site. Actually, he has four of them, but two were commissioned, so they'll each be going elsewhere; I'll post the other two as soon as I can. Just like the new rings (scroll down four posts), it would do us a great deal of good to be able to sell all of them, too. My focus this whole long weekend was supposed to be on making sales (haha, yeah, I can barely walk, but whatever, and tourism is way off and nobody's buying), because this past week saw a truly massive (for us, at least) outlay on medical bills. It barely put a dent in the total, too. After I added it all up, it turns out the total was more than $30K. Three small ones are paid off; four more are reduced to $2K or less apiece; and the three hospital bills? They total somewhere upward of $23K still. And I still can't schedule the next round of tests. Ideally, I'd like to pull in enough to pay off those $2K or less ones over the next couple of weeks, which (without pulling the bills; just adding in my head) amounts to around $3,500 total, give or take.
So. We need to make sales. In addition to these two, Wings has several new things in the works; the problem is cadging studio time. But we also need to sell our current inventory, because it's sales and Patreon subscribers that keep us going (and keep me paying down this massive medical debt load). I really need to double my Pateon subscription totals to cover this, because as I've said above, I've put a hold on any more testing (no matter how much I need it, and I do, desperately, but it's expensive) until I get some of this paid off, because the stress of that hanging over my head is killing me as surely as anything else. No, I'm not going to schedule it until I've got the collectors off my back at least somewhat; that round will be cash on the barrelhead, four figures right up front before they'll even handle my intake form, and there's just no way. So please continue to share the links:
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| Photo copyright Aji, 2018; all rights reserved. |
The little Crow Monster, there on the right, along with some help from Coyote and Raven, managed to injure me first thing this morning. I get halfway down (not even halfway; try the top) the stairs and Raven's already whining and dancing to be let out. The two monster twins are outside whining and dancing to be let in. And because Raven gets turfy, I make him stay behind me while I push them away from the door. It's the first thing I do in the morning, and today reminded me why that's such a staggeringly bad idea.
Or, rather, falling-down bad. Because while I was scooping the two pups out of the way, Crow made another pass and got her foot wedged under mine just as I was putting it down. I didn't even get a chance to put any weight on it, so she wasn't hurt, just startled, but it knocked me off balance and I slammed forward face-first; my ankles doubled over and hit the deck first, then knees and hands simultaneously, all bearing the full brunt of my weight in a split second.
I'm not moving so well now today.
The vet came out to look at Shade, because she's showing disturbing signs of her mother's Cushing's. The vet still thinks it's allergy, but her liver enzymes are elevated, so labs anyway and some compounded allergy shots. Gah. I have no idea what this going to run. And needless to say, I was not out there to hold her this time; between yesterday's huge episode flare (still ongoing) and today's fall, it took everything I had just to go along with Wings to pick up supplies in town. I didn't even have to carry anything, and it still wiped me out. I hope this is just a flare and not a permanent change, because I am seriously not up for this over the long term yet.
Wings has a couple of new pieces, both Warrior Woman pins, that will probably be done tonight, and if I can, I'll get them up on the site. Actually, he has four of them, but two were commissioned, so they'll each be going elsewhere; I'll post the other two as soon as I can. Just like the new rings (scroll down four posts), it would do us a great deal of good to be able to sell all of them, too. My focus this whole long weekend was supposed to be on making sales (haha, yeah, I can barely walk, but whatever, and tourism is way off and nobody's buying), because this past week saw a truly massive (for us, at least) outlay on medical bills. It barely put a dent in the total, too. After I added it all up, it turns out the total was more than $30K. Three small ones are paid off; four more are reduced to $2K or less apiece; and the three hospital bills? They total somewhere upward of $23K still. And I still can't schedule the next round of tests. Ideally, I'd like to pull in enough to pay off those $2K or less ones over the next couple of weeks, which (without pulling the bills; just adding in my head) amounts to around $3,500 total, give or take.
So. We need to make sales. In addition to these two, Wings has several new things in the works; the problem is cadging studio time. But we also need to sell our current inventory, because it's sales and Patreon subscribers that keep us going (and keep me paying down this massive medical debt load). I really need to double my Pateon subscription totals to cover this, because as I've said above, I've put a hold on any more testing (no matter how much I need it, and I do, desperately, but it's expensive) until I get some of this paid off, because the stress of that hanging over my head is killing me as surely as anything else. No, I'm not going to schedule it until I've got the collectors off my back at least somewhat; that round will be cash on the barrelhead, four figures right up front before they'll even handle my intake form, and there's just no way. So please continue to share the links:
- My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
- Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
- Wings's direct PayPal link;
- A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount; something over $300 for Wings last week, to say nothing of all my own);
- Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of supplies for half-feral puppies;
- 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).
As always, I have more writing, more editing, and more general work to do, and I have to get back on it (and yes, at the moment, again, that which falls into the "general work" category has to come first). Thank you to everyone. I know I owe replies to a bunch of you, and other stuff, too. I'm going to be late with everything, because just breathing is taking up so much time and effort these days that it puts me even more behind than I already am.
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