Days from hell. Sales, subscribers, and shares all badly needed.

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Yeah, that was early early this morning, before this day went to hell. There are days when I'm just fed up with everything.  This is one of them.

Bad enough that we had a big vet bill for Shade on Monday. Her liver enzymes are elevated, and we can't tell way; we're going right now on the assumption of inflammation and possible infection, but if that turns out not to be it, the next stage of testing gets a whole lot more expensive than a little bloodwork. We don't have it.

Then this morning, Wings went to refill the dog food container from the 3 bags we were both positive were stashed in the gallery, and there was nothing there. At all. So either we both hallucinated what was left, or something else is going on. It's not the only thing to turn up missing lately, either.

And to top it all off, Raven apparently went where he knows he's not supposed to go, and got two wire cuts in the process. The one between withers is relatively minor; the one in his lower leg is not. It will require another expensive trip to the vet tomorrow, with suturing and maybe more, and goddammit, but we are not made of money. And trying to clean the wound, with a half-feral fear- and pain-aggressive dog, with me holding him with one badly injured wrist? Yeah, that was a hell of a lot of fun. I'm done with this day.

Add to that the lack of business, the lack of tourism, the canceled powwow, and the economy in the tank, along with all the other terrible things, and then our medical bills on top of that? I'm just done for today. I don't have anything left in my brain to give over to more problems. I'm already living every day in panic mode from the bills, and that's destroying what little health I have left.

So we need to make sales. And I am out of time and out of patience with this one-handed typing nonsense, so the rest is mostly cut-and-paste. Given that a new ER bill will be coming down the pike this week, it would be really helpful to sell Wings's new work, and plenty of the existing work, too (especially since there's no end to the dunning on the existing ER bills). New Patreon subscriptions would help, too. So anyway, since my klutziness has set us back yet again in a not-insignificant way, please 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);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• 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).

These two pieces are truly amazing; Wings can take the vaguest descriptions and ideas and turn them into exactly what you see in your mind's eye. This one may not have been as vague, but I would never have been able to bring it into being beyond the idea, and yet, here she is in three full dimensions . . . just like the hummingbird.  

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