So this is it.

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Yet another in the pipeline. It's currently slated to be another multi-focal necklace; the cabs are spiny oyster shell. And that will mean a trip to the bead store soon.

Yesterday and today have delivered some of my highest pain levels in memory. No, nothing works. My suspicion is that there is nothing that will work, because it's not like pain from a temporary physical trauma that can heal; all this will do is get progressively worse. It's not possible to stitch my disintegrating connective tissue together, nor to put every dislocation back into place by force [because they happen across multiple joints multiple times a day]. that leaves as the only alternative slowing the process, either with meds that I can't afford and that have nasty side effects anyway, or with continually raising my chemo dose, which makes me feel like shit, or by loading up on enough pain meds to numb it, which 1) the feds have made sure I will never be able to have, and 2) zombifying myself doesn't help me work anyway. 

So this is it. It's not going to get better, only worse, and there's essentially nothing I can do for it.

Talk about demoralizing.

In the meantime, I still need to make make consistent sales, because we we have the next giant tax payment due, and I would dearly love to cover them all at once and not have to worry about it for a while, since we know there are there are other huge expenses lying in wait for us now. Which means, of course, that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, and after refiling her meds we just can't swing it:  one container of the Lamina Saver, which treats her laminitis [we have one on the way; we're good for now], but still need 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the top two items on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, weurgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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