Ever have, like, a toothache or a headache and it’s all you can think about? It eclipses all of your other significant and very real problems because you can’t even think about dealing with any of them until your tooth or your head stop throbbing. You think, man, if I could just get rid of this toothache/headache, then all the rest of this would be manageable.
And then, finally, the pain subsides or the tooth gets pulled and for maybe the next day or two you’re just full of gratitude and relief. But then gradually forget about that urgency and the gratitude and relief ebb away and the weight of all of those other significant and very real problems settles back in.
We’re not quite there yet. It’s been just over two months since the Slacktivixen finally had the surgery she needed and we’re still a little bit giddy with the relief and gratitude that she is no longer in daily, constant, disabling pain. She’s doing PT to regain the strength and energy she lost from three years of being unable to exercise or walk or lift anything, and she’s still a long ways from “back to normal,” but the pain is gone and that’s still the most important thing.
It is not, however, the most important thing to our many creditors. They don’t seem to share our joy that my wife didn’t die and is now, at last, free of crippling pain. They just want to collect on all those payments we’ve deferred or delayed over the past three years during which survival and pain maintenance were all we were capable of dealing with.
And they’re getting increasingly insistent about that.
And so this is a fundraising post/fundraising week here at the blog.
My PayPal link is here. I am also on Venmo as @George-Clark-61.
Thank you, again, for all the support you’ve provided us in the past. We literally wouldn’t have made it through these past three years without that help from readers of this blog.
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