Another hungry soul gets fed. Medical stresses, expenses, and blinding fatigue. New work, and sales (and shares) very badly needed.

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Nope, that's not Crow. That's her sib, smaller, skinnier, more starved, more terrified. She came over with her braver sister, and after several attempts to turn and run (and after i set the food down and walked a few feet away), she finally raced up and began inhaling it. So hungry she didn't even chew it.

So that's three new ones that don't live here, but will be coming daily to eat. [One of the adults was here a few days ago, but too terrified to come far beyond the fence; some combo of pit and cow dog and whippet, it looks like. Also all bones.]

That was my big accomplishment of the day. My chest pain is not as severe as yesterday, and I haven't needed to raid the nitro like I did then, but I'm wiped out. Also, the wind is howling like crazy, loud enough that we can actually hear it for the first time. They say snow tonight, but it's in the fifties despite the wind, so I'm skeptical. It could do it, though.

Yesterday was, as I said then, my worst day since November. As badly off as I've been, I hadn't realized the degree of my improvement, because this is a whole other level of feeling like you're gonna die. Next week, I'm going for a more traditional sort of healing effort, and we'll see what effect that produces, if any. But my fatigue is at epic levels (and so is the stress that goes with it), so the rest is all cut and paste. The financial stresses right now are killing me all on their own.

And we still need sales, which means we need shares. Badly. Again, if you're thinking about donating, DON'T. Give it to Bobby to help get Don Feliberto back into a real home. Here's the latest update. We know what it's like not to have one; we have one now, and donations need to go there to get this elder safe again. I posted a second piece at my other site a couple of nights ago about Bobby's efforts in Puerto Rico, including his adoption of Don Feliberto to get this abandoned elder into safe space again. That will tell you what he's up against, and my e-mail's in my Blogger profile here (or you can DM at Twitter/FB); hit me up for his addresses if you want to contribute, either cash (most needed) or household and other items, some of which you can purchase outright via the Amazon Wishlist Bobby's set up here. He's added a bunch of new items, all badly needed, and I can testify to the fact that need for the power cords, the tools, and the solar lights and equipment is probably exigent at this point. That said, when you're in a situation like Don Feliberto is, it's amazing how wonderful clean clothes and good coffee can make you feel, too.

What we need are SALES. Please. Spread the word. Valentine's Day is less than two weeks away, and Wings has produced some fabulous new work (a lot of explicitly Valentine's-like in imagery). I just posted another new work for Valentine's Day at his site a little while ago, a new style made with some truly fabulously blue old lapis cabs; the link to the site itself is below. Spread all of them around on FB and Twitter and other social media. The O2 issue is now solved, but there are all the ongoing regular expenses, the astronomical medical expenses, and of course, someday we'd like to be able to get the house finished. So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (what happens when the light shows only dust);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills);
• 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. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

I had planned to some new stuff to launch at my new site today (or, rather, long before today), but between lack of money and technical issues, that's still on hold. This business of ignoring my symptoms and my pain  and discomfort does seem to be helping my brain and body both find some sort of accommodation with this oh-my-god-you're-going-to-die thing that keeps happening, which is to say, every time it crops up, I smack it ruthlessly back down and force myself to sit and breathe through it. I dunno how long this will keep working, but I'm going to bulldoze my way through it as much as possible, DX or no. Thanks, everybody, from both of us, for everything. 



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