Grim.

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Reverse order again today, because late start, longest writing day, and new work that needs to get posted ASAP. Also because I'm not sure how long my body and brain will hold out today, and once the NDN Silver post is done, I'm not sure how much more I'll be able to face.

Things are grim. Worse than grim. I have GOT to bring in about $600 in sales, at least, TODAY, if I'm going to cover all the emergency stuff I have to cover before this stupid, horrible month finally ends tomorrow. I had to shell out $214 yesterday that I wasn't expecting and didn't know about, because since we lost our doc and are now seeing a PA [same practice], rates have apparently doubled and Medicare has halved what they'll cover. Meanwhile, I have to pay out over $100 for one of his scrips this week, AND I have to disentangle a thoroughly fucked-up insurance problem before the end of today, hence the other $500. And people are still coming to us asking for money. Doesn't matter; we don't have any. Everyone tapped us out before this month began. 

I still have to be able to pay the rest of this year's taxes and start prepaying next year's. I can't go through this again. I also have to cover the well pump replacement. And Spirit only knows what's waiting for me health-wise, but it's not good. It might just be disease progression; it might be something very much worse. I know what the symptoms I'm having can signify. I won't have any chance to to get even the most basic answers for another month, because that's the soonest I can get in to the doctor, and that appointment's been scheduled for months. If it is what I'm afraid of? It doesn't matter, because I can't afford the tests and travel, never mind the treatment. But I have all of this hanging over me every minute, there's nothing I can do about any of it, and I don't know how much more I can take.

So. We need shares, and we most definitely need sales. As in now, today, every day for a while, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and those adjustable Black KN95 masks are badly needed, because I gave away all the rest of ours to relatives; it would good to have several boxes, so I can keep handing them out, too); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing because taxes to this Nazi administration have already taken every last cent and we still owe them more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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