Exhaustion. Expenses. A lot of bloodwork, and now we wait. Sales/shares/registries (especially sales) needed.

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Yeah, not a good shot, but the ottoman's where it belongs in our bedroom now. The armoire is assembled and moved into the guest room, too. Marcos is paid for his work last week and in advance for his work through Wednesday this week, so he'll have some extra scratch for his family for the holidays.  

The fatigue has set in for both of us now. For me, it's this ongoing . . . whatever the hell it is. The last two months were mostly sleepless, with another episode threatening around the edges. Might turn out to have been nothing more than a slight crimp in the other end of the cannula; might not. For Wings, it's all the pressure and pace of the last month catching up to him, trying to do all of his usual and take care of me, too. And then this morning we had to be up and out the door early for my bloodwork (fasting, so no coffee, and I still have a headache from that and the lack of food); they drew five vials for eight separate multi-item panels. Fingers crossed that something shows up — something that can be, you know, fixed. A month and a day, and still no answers, and don't think it's not scary, because it's terrifying. And now I wait, and wait some more, until we know what they say; they expect the first results probably by Friday, but the remainder sometime next week, most likely. It's going to be a very, very long week, and right now, the thing I feel most is a numbing, blinding, beyond-bone-deep exhaustion.

For now, we need to make some sales. A lot of them. It's not just keeping me alive and Wings healthy; it's helping other folks, too. Given the circumstances, I'm leaving up the donation link, too, and the registries have some new items on then, mostly lower-priced, to replace stuff damaged by the RV or given away when we first moved into it seven years ago. So please share our links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• 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).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Still waiting for them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Even so, I've added some things (kitchen/dining room stuff mostly), most of which are comparatively reasonably priced. Now, it's going to be mostly odds and ends that make this place more liveable, because of the sheer volume of stuff destroyed by too many years in the RV (e.g., by the oven and stovetop, by the wiring, by the water, by the mold, etc.), or that we simply gave away seven years ago because we had no room and no place to put them and despaired of ever being able to use them again. A CHANGE ABOUT WAYFAIR:  NO MORE CROWDFUNDING. Their Web site coding is bad, and it will not permit crowdfunded items to ship. Items purchased outright arrive in two business days, but you can't even get the others out of the warehouse. I've spent the last month fighting with them about shipping the dozen or so things that folks fulfilled, and today's message was finally terse enough that they did the manual override, four whole weeks later, that I knew they could do but simply weren't bothering. But I'll be removing all the crowdfunding options. I'm supposed to keep my blood pressure down these days.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, and will be now for a while. But this is the holiday season, and the sales/commissions from these few weeks are what keep us alive throughout the whole long winter and spring months (to say nothing of what's in the offing medically), so please continue to share the links. And please refer folks to Wings's site (and if you have an endorsement, too, so much the better). I'll be trying, slowly but, I hope, steadily, to get caught up over the course of this week. We have some massive expenses coming down the pike, and a lot of testing yet to be done before I'm out of the woods. So please keep sharing all our links. For now, I'm just so damn grateful to be alive, to have a healthy heart, to be back home with the love of my life and our dogs, the whole world is beautiful. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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