Attracting butterflies.

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A feel-better gift from my honey yesterday. Beautiful spring colors and scent, perfect for attracting butterflies.

Right now, attracting butterflies seems like a metaphor for good luck of whatever sort (although around here, it's usually spiders or snakes with that "prosperity" connotation). Yesterday's butterfly belt, its completion and posting coming as it did on the day of the first butterfly's visit . . . well, with everything going on right now, I'll take my good omens where I can find them, and that seems like a good one. If we could sell that belt? Well, that would almost (not quite, but almost) cover the AFIRMA analysis, although instead of that, we'd put it on existing hospital bills.

No word on results yet; I didn't really expect to have them until they had all the samples except the reserved-for-AFIRMA ones read, including the molecular analyses. I'm guessing I won't know anything before early next week, if then. Hard to sit on pins and needles all the time; the nerves create butterflies of a less welcome sort.

Meanwhile, everybody still wants their money. The tax man, the hospitals, it's endless. I have another appointment with my regular doc tomorrow, which means cash on the barrelhead. I'll have another bill coming next week for the second biopsy, and then another bill (or maybe two) for the reading of it. We have no answers yet, including no answers as to what almost killed me twice 16+ months ago. And whatever the outcome with this, I still have more testing to undergo related to that. Next goal is paying off the hospitals from that mess, which comes to more than $30K just between the two of them, and they dun me daily, so here are the links:

• My Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until April 1st for March);
• Wings's site, for sales, with lots of 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, with the kibble back on it; we gave several of our existing bags to a local disabled vet with a starving rescue dog who needed the help;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. I've added two or three new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need.

All we want, to be able to have some confidence in making it through the whole year with whatever they're going to find going wrong in my body, is to make some sales. That's it: sales; nothing else. The stress is constant, and it's telling. Good vibes for Raven are needed today especially (he's still hanging with us, and I need him to be safe while we're out). But we all could use some, too, me most of all. We all could also use some help with sharing Wings's site (and testimonials, if you got 'em). Thanks.

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