In a big, big way.

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After a beautiful day for most of the day, the smoke is back. In a big, big way. That prescribed burn west of us? Seems to have gotten away from them [you're shocked by that, I know]. Tonight, one giant smoke plume has become TWO giant smoke plumes, and the pall has spread from due north westward to southward to east. It's awful, and it was entirely predictable.

Speaking of things back in a big, big way? Welp. It has been a day, and for me, some flashbacks to the scary stuff of three years ago. First, though, the good news [costly news, going forward permanently, but good: We have the needed changes to Wings's scrips. As in needed for seven years-plus. Our doc is also going to start seeing him on the every-3-months rotation that IHS is supposed to be doing, and while this will cost us out of pocket, it's worth it to get him actual care.

I am going on that same every-3-months rotation [which I have NOT been on anywhere]. My chemo scrip is adjusted and renewed, but it's coming mail-order, which means that the next two weeks are going to be very hard on me [because I won't have it until then]. VERY hard. But after that, that part of my issues should stabilize. Because of his scrip hanges, Wings is going in for labs in four weeks, and hey, guess what, so am I. Both will be cash on the barrelhead for us, so that will be many hundreds of dollars out of pocket. Mine are going to have to be more comprehensive, so they'll be a lot more costly yet [all the autoimmune stuff, plus the basics, plus a few others], because of those weird symptoms I've been having. I am also being referred for a mammogram and ultrasound [like my bloodwork, two years overdue now], and that will have to happen in Santa Fe, and it will be several THOUSAND cash on the barrelhead. So that gets delayed for a while. Because my symptoms could be nothing more than lymph swelling from my autoimmune disease and the lack of a large enough chemo dose for several weeks.

Or they could be something very big bad.

I already know what all the likely possibilities are. I've also already had multiple cancer scares, with the thyroid and liver tumors five years ago [all tumor still present] and the scare 3 years ago about inflammatory breast cancer that everyone eventually concluded was just a bizarre artifact of the lupus, because as with the thyroid tumor, nobody could read the biopsy results definitively. But all this means higher potential risk, and my doc says that if it IS something big and bad, we don't want to wait until it shows up in the bloodwork, because that runs the risk of it being too advanced to fix it.

So. On top of the taxes, the chimney cleaning, the change in our Web hosting, the need to replace my dying laptop, and all the other nonsense? Seriously bug medical bills coming up fast.

We've GOT to make sales now.  Desperately.  I need help; I can't do this alone.

I've put up a bunch of new work lately:  new cuff bracelet the other day, here, and it's fabulous, with an extraordinary focal stone that has taken up residence in my head ever since; new earrings, here, here, here [already sold!], and here [these are my personal favorites]; a new pendant up here now [it's amazing]; a new ring here; the three items in the new Northern Lights gemstone bead trio here, here, and here [some stones glow in new colors under UV light!]; and hopefully soon, a new millwork cuff with an extraordinary [and OLD] sugilite-mix cab. And as always, all the regular links are listed below, with sales, as always, being the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (I've added a few items that we're running out of, long-lasting hand-soaps that don't make my skin bleed, KN95 masks, and Wings's protein powders. Apparently the FlexTape is the priority now, so I'm told; otherwise, Amazon cards are most important now, because they go to buy things we can't get locally; and also the filters for the air purifiers, because we have only one left and the amount of dust and dirt they take in in these winds is indescribable); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim 2023, and with this year starting off MUCH worse (and given that we're already approaching the half-way mark), we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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