Monsoon prep.

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What Wings spent yesterday afternoon doing: Call it monsoon prep. It's an indication of his essential strength that he could trim Miskwaki even with his injured shoulder. And the big red man needed it; the sulcus in each of his frogs is unusually deep, especially on the hind feet, and that makes him prone to thrush. It's been a lot wetter this spring than in recent years, and since the forecast suggests that the seasonal rains might be starting as early as the middle of this week, he wanted to get them done now.

Speaking of rain, I need to make it rain in the other sense of that phrase, because despite Friday's good news, I'm drowning in a monsoon of medical bills. I'm also still having a great deal of trouble health-wise, including adjusting to the new meds (which may or may not turn out to be sufficient; I'm spending more time on oxygen than usual still). I still have to pay off the balances on those hospital bills: $30K, and it's getting really, really urgent. Everything I do is going to be geared toward that until they're gone. We need to make some good sales, steadily, if we're going to do this. On the current push, I've raised $217 toward that goal (and thank you to the two folks who made that possible). I've got a lot more work that I have to get done both on- and offline yet, too, and nothing left in reserve, so here are the links, because I have to bring in this full $30K somehow, and now:

• 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);
• My Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until June 1st for May);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff, the big one being the fly spray;
• 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.

I'm ecstatic to be able to forget, at least for now, about my thyroid (yes, there's still some swelling and so forth, but it's not nearly as noticeable as after the first botched biopsy). Now I have to work on the asthma/respiratory and autoimmune stuff. And most of all, I need to pay off these bills. That will go further than just about anything right now to allowing me to breathe again. Please share the links around, offer recommendations and testimonials, consider purchases, and help me be able to breathe, literally.

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