A lot to be done.

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The famous butterfly concha belt, still in its constituent parts. There's a lot to be done on it yet, and he's at work on it as I write this.

For me, today was supposed to be another paperwork day, but he needs my help in the studio, so that gets bumped to tomorrow, I guess. It might be just as well; my focus was enough better yesterday to let me concentrate on it for several hours straight, but my pain was so bad overnight, continuing into today, that my brain's not functioning very well. This kind of dysfunction also just raises my stress level, and Spirit knows I've got way more than enough to worry about right now anyway. So much to try to get done before the cancer center summons me, since I don't know what else they may find (i.e., spread to lymph nodes or elsewhere), and thus how long they might need to keep me there. As I said yesterday, all of this, of course, is complicated now by truly debilitating levels of body-wide pain and fatigue, so at this point, there aren't even fumes in the tank. Right now, I need to raise $1,500 to pay off one particular bill and $600 for another (and then there are another $30K worth behind them, but this will get two of the smaller ones off my back immediately), so here are the links:

• My Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until March 1st for February);
• Wings's site, for sales, with lots of new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff, with the kibble back on it; we gave several of our existing bags to a local disabled vet with a starving rescue dog who needed the help;
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. I've added two or three new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need.

All we want, to be able to have some confidence in making it through the whole year with whatever they're going to find going wrong in my body, is to make some sales. That's it: sales; nothing else. But I haven't been able to make even that happen, and the stress is telling. Good vibes for Raven are still welcome (he's still hanging with us, and I need him to be safe while we're out). But I could use some, too. We all could also use some help with sharing Wings's site (and testimonials, if you got 'em). Thanks.

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