Gray days; gray currents.

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Gray days; gray currents. 

Winter weather advisory for tonight through Friday evening, with predictions of 6-16" just 500 feet upslope from us. We'll believe it when we see it. Still, it's going to get a lot colder again later today. This is not a return of winter but the start of an early monsoon season, with some amount of rain predicted every day for the next 15 days, which is the whole of the long-range forecast.

Gray in other ways, too. Constant pain is a surefire way to send depression into a spike; so is constant fatigue; so is not being able to breathe. I've got all three, and more, and on top of it all, the incessant hounding over five figures' worth of hospital bills, most of them from a place that did me no good and actually inflicted tangible, measurable harm on me. I still have a lot of other testing ahead of me, and I'm at the point where I cannot schedule any of it until I have these bills off my back. Which means no time that I can foresee, at this point.

So: $30K, and it's getting really, really urgent. Everything I do is going to be geared toward that until they're gone. We need to make some good sales, steadily, if we're going to do this. On the current push, I've raised $251 toward that goal (and thank you to the three folks who made that possible). I've got a lot more work that I have to get done today, both on- and offline yet, and nothing left in reserve, so here are the links, because I have to bring in this full $30K somehow, and now:

• 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);
• My Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds) (and if you subscribe today you won't be billed until June 1st for May);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff, the big one being the fly spray;
• 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.

I'm ecstatic to be able to forget, at least for now, about my thyroid (yes, there's still some swelling and so forth, but it's not nearly as noticeable as after the first botched biopsy). Now I have to work on the asthma/respiratory and autoimmune stuff. And most of all, I need to pay off these bills. That will go further than just about anything right now to allowing me to breathe again. Wings has new work coming out over the next couple of days, in addition to the new cuff and two new pairs of earrings that I posted here yesterday. Please share the links around, offer recommendations and testimonials, consider purchases, and help me be able to breathe, literally.

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