Storms of various sorts. A lot of expense coming up fast. Sales and shares (and time) badly needed.

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That was 10 AM. This was noon:

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It's been snowing intermittently for a while, accompanied part of the time by gale-force winds. At least now we don't have to worry about our "home" literally being picked up and blown over in the storm. 

It looks like there's more on the way, if the newly-darkened cloudbank to the west is any indication.

This weekend has been mostly a loss in terms of getting anything accomplished. Most of that is simple pain and fatigue on my part, but it's also not being able to get any uninterrupted time to myself to work, and certainly not being able to get the IgnitionDeck platform functional. I'm three months behind on that, and tearing my hair out, because I am quite literally running out of time. [Unfortunately, my unsolved and unresolved health issues mean that the possibility of quite literally running out of time is never far from my mind.]

The next two weeks are going to be hell. I added up all the appointments: seven definitely-scheduled medical appointments in a two-week period just between Wings and me. If all goes as expected, there will be two more in roughly that same time frame for me, each involving testing. Getting out of this month is going to cost us a fortune, on top the fortune we already owe.

As I said last night, I've also just shelled out for another doctor's appointment and two scrips totaling $200 (the scrips, not the visit; that's another $150 on top of it). And the bill collectors never rest, so I don't, either. The rest is cut and paste, because dammit, I'm beat, and I've still got a lot of work ahead of me tonight. Please share. And I still need IgnitionDeck expertise, if anyone's got it, and yes, I'll pay for it.

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 (you have to understand this to understand life);
• 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 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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