Whew. It's been a day and a half already, and it's the middle of the afternoon. Sales/shares/registries needed.

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I have oxygen!

Not without incident, natch; the one they gave us at the supply place turned out not to work properly, so the tech just came out and exchanged it for one whose alarm isn't sounding nonstop. And while my main purpose in using it will be for sleep, I'm trying it out right now, because this problem has been quite apparently not limited to sleep, and my chest pain started subsiding as soon as the O2 started flowing, so that tells me it's something more than what they were suggesting. I haven't had much rest, but I've developed a pretty sound biofeedback response over the last several days. It doesn't prevent the episode from occurring, but it does wake/alert me in time to prevent it becoming something really, really bad. And if I'm lucky, I'll sleep tonight.

As I said yesterday, we're winding down the work on the house until after January 1st. Sure, it's the money, too, but we also did the same last year. One of the guys had a second job at the Ski Valley for the holidays (not apparently, an issue for too many folks this year, given the lack of snow and lack of any in the forecast), one had family stuff to focus on, and we were just exhausted anyway. We're more exhausted this time around, given what's been going on with me over the last couple of weeks, and all the activity is really disruptive to me at the moment. Everything wears me out, and I need to save my energy for forcing the docs to figure this out. Wings also needs to be able to get back into the studio, and taking care of me hasn't given him any time for that.

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For now, Tony's working today and tomorrow, and Floyd came by to drill the hole for the air gap between sink and dishwasher. That up there was today's big accomplishment: We have a functional closet! There's a lot to be done on it yet, but that can wait for January. Between now and then, we have a place to hang our clothes, and makeshift shelving besides. Tony also hung a bar in the coat closet downstairs, and tomorrow he's going to switch out the shelves in ours. And then, I think, we'll be mostly done for the month, other than having the plumbers hook up the dishwasher and having Marcos come on an as-needed basis to do various stopgap sorts of things.

And Wings can go back to his art, and I can turn my attention to figuring out exactly what this is and get it fixed.

Lots of expenses coming down the pike (first one already here in today's mail), and we need to make some sales. 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 the 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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