A visit from my girl. Also, apparently, from some sort of bug, and soon from bad weather. Sales badly needed, and shares too.

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She gave me a few distance shots today. It was purposeful on her part; she knows, somehow, what it means when I'm outside with the camera, and she runs circles around me overhead to try to help me get the shot. I'm reduced to my old camera these days, though, one without much power or flexibility, so decent ones are few and far between.

Today's appointment got rescheduled for Tuesday, but now we're going to have to reschedule it again, most likely, because the next two days are supposed to bring bad weather. Well, "bad" in the sense of not wanting to drive down the Gorge in it; very good weather for the land, and I hope we get it. If the clouds on all sides right now are any indication, it's on the way. 

Of course, the wind and the change in the weather is screwing with my body and my pain levels in very unpleasant ways. Not helping my chest much, either, nor is the scratchy throat and intermittent cough I've developed since midday yesterday. Too much time in places where there are sick people, and with the dangerous state of my chest right now, I can't afford to get that kind of sick. So I've been trying to take it as easy as possible today, but that's not easy when the work has to get done and I'm slower than ever at being able to do it. Like last night, all the rest is cut-and-paste, because my brain is too tired to focus enough to change it. Suffice to say that we need to make some sales, and I need to get the site monetized.

I'm setting two separate goals, as outlined below, because they're both dunning me steadily now. The overall goal is my $25K+ in emergency medical bills. I've been trying to raise an initial $1,700 to take care of two specific bills: the local ambulance and one hospitalist's fee. We're $145 of the way toward it. Those are now covered (thank you, thank you again). The next goal is two-fold: One is the cost of the ambulance when they transferred me down to Albuquerque, which is $2K; the other is one of the Lovelace doctors, which is $1,500. That's $3,500 total, and the next phase of all this with regard to the new platform. Then I can turn my attention to the really big ones, which are the hospital bills themselves (Lovelace in particular is going to be bad, because, well, cardiac cath). A caveat: I have a lot of kinks to get worked out yet, but PayPal is now theoretically linked to the progress meter on the site. I say "theoretically," because I've just discovered that I apparently have to set up at least one other page to make the subscription "purchase" possible. Eventually, if you subscribe via PayPal (it's a monthly thing like Patreon), it will show, although for now the only way to do it is to hit the PayPal "Subscribe" button. I'm hoping to get that figured out and fixed tomorrow. I also need to figure out how to pin it to the main page, so for now, the only way to access it is here. Please share this link around on social media and elsewhere. I still need to raise the $3,500 as fast as possible, because there are thousands' worth of hospital bills stacked up behind it. It also means that we need sales and I need to get my subscription platform up and running (and you can still subscribe via PayPal even now). So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (my girl, and yes, she does know me that well);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills, and now Wings's too);
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of supplies for She-Wolf and food for the half-feral pack;
• 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.

Please check out the new platform, share the links, get your friends to participate. I've got a long road ahead of me, just in terms of diagnosis and, I hope, eventually treatment. Being able to pay off the medical bills will go a long way toward keeping me as healthy as possible in the meantime. Thanks, everybody, from both of us.

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