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Finally, real green. Last week's brief weather helped; today's will, too. We had a lovely hours'-long rain this afternoon, the kind of soft, steady, soaking rain that is gentle on the earth, but effective.
The radar map suggests that what's coming this way for tonight might be a little more extreme.
We can use that, too, but it runs the risk of things like flash-flooding and wind damage and outages and so forth. We'll see. We might also get nothing at all.
Before I get t anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.
It's going to be a busy week ahead, mostly playing catch-up on everything we couldn't get done in May. Labs are in, and my prediction was right: They tell us absolutely nothing, and that none of that means that something isn't wrong; it just means that it doesn't show up in that particular space. Well, the one thing they seem to tell us [but don't] is that my BG is two points high [two lousy points]; and it doesn't actually mean anything at all. Why? Because that's a fasting measure, and I was told not to bother fasting because that was simply an automatic part of the panel, not what they were actually looking for, and I told the guy that I had coffee just beforehand [sweetened, of course], and instead he apparently wrote "fasting" on it because he doesn't understand the basic terminology of his job? ::Sigh::
Anyway. The one bit of good news that I'm taking from it is that a year and a half of low-dose chemo has not done a damn thing to my liver [and apparently liver damage is a relatively common protocol-halting side effect]. The problematic part is that my RBC and WBC counts are right smack in the middle of normal, so why are my lymph nodes running riot badly enough to sublux my joints? I really, really don't want to have to go for a bunch of scans and biopsies again, in the first place because we can't afford any of it and in the second because that kind of repeated travel, on top of the tests, does me a lot of physical damage, and I'm already having more than enough of a problem with all of that.
And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and wasting multiple days traveling elsewhere to be stuck in imaging tubes and have needles extracting samples doesn't help me do any of that. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::], here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:
- Sales here;
- Testimonials here;
- Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here);
- 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 tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links.
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