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Situation Update...

Hi guys!

So here's an update on our situation.

I got in a little cash recently, but it wasn't really enough to make a dent. February is going to be a very, very hard month. And I need to get as much funds as I can before it hits...on top of the fact that I need to get our car payment paid this month ($500) by the 19th, or they're going to repossess our car.

Here's the breakdown:

My wife has 2 days of medication left - today and tomorrow. Then she's out.

I actively am working on 2 commissions, with a 3rd in waiting for payment, and am still accepting new commissions. Being able to stream art on Tygerwolfe Designs is proving to be a huge boon to my business, but it's still not moving fast enough. The money I've been paid for this work is already gone, paid out on my dental work, the meds my wife currently has, and gas money. This is why being a freelancer is so hard - the money you make is generally spent before you even make it, and then you're spending hours working for what feels like nothing becuase the money is already gone. It's a frustrating way to live, but all I've got at the moment.

If I don't make $500 above and beyond what I need to keep my wife in medication and us in food and gas, the car will be under threat of reposession (3 months overdue) starting on the 19th of this month. I have 12 days to pull off a miracle.

I have an opportunity - a friend of my mother-in-law is having back surgery on the 17th, and needs a temporary caregiver for about 6 weeks of recovery time. This work runs about $20 an hour. If I work full time for the six weeks, I will make enough money to ensure my wife having meds and to be able to pay the car payment, get new car insurance, and pay off the traffic ticket I owe from when I ran a red light on the way to the emergency dentist. However, I don't know how much help this woman will need or how many hours I'll be putting in every day, so a lot will depend on that.

And, of course, if I take this gig (I have experience from caregiving for Grandma and Grandpa year before last), I won't be able to work on art likely during the six week period so all commissions will go on hold and I won't be accepting commissions beyond a wait list period for that time. This all also depends on the woman agreeing to hire me and liking me enough to keep me for the full six weeks (and whether or not her partner will be coming out from Albuquerque to help her during that time as well). So this is still an up-in-the-air thing. I'm hopeful, though.

As I mentioned, I have to (in the next 4 weeks) pay $500 on the car, drop...god knows how much on new insurance, and pay a $490 traffic ticket. (I suppose I could appear in court and ask for the ticket to be excused due to not having the money + the medical emergency that caused the ticket to be gotten in the first place, but I don't know if that would work. I may look into it anyway.) And on top of that, I will owe $180 on our registration, ALSO in February.

In the next 3 days, I have a $10 bill that comes out of our Chase account, which GoFundMe dumps into. There is currently about $1.90 in that account. So I need a small donation to GoFundMe to make sure that bill is covered. I also have a Square Cash account that dumps directly into that account. You can send a donation directly there using this link: http://www.cash.me/$Tygerwolfe , to bypass GoFundMe's 20% take off of whatever is donated, if you want to.

As far as my own medical situation goes, I have an MRI appointment for the lump on my right thigh in the next few weeks, and a dental checkup on the 11th of February. We'll see where things go from there. I have an endocrinology surgeon biopsy appointment for the potentially cancerous nodules in my thyroid in March - but I'm hoping to get that moved up sooner due to urgency (potential cancer seems pretty damned urgent to me...). I'll keep you all up to date.

In happier news, my 34th birthday is coming up (February 7th). Here's a wishlist if anyone wants to buy me something fun...but honestly, having cash would probably be more helpful. Still, I won't say no to gifts - I've already gone through a holiday season without a single physical gift to give or get, and a birthday without a single physical present is just a depressing thing. As for random things I like...I love wolves and western style dragons, I have a thing for plush elephants/mammoths, I love thylacines/tasmanian tigers, I love well-written fantasy and urban fantasy books, and I love pretty much any pet/animal memoir (feel free to get me your favorites so I can read them!). My wishlist is short because I find it hard to think of specific things I want, honestly...it's more of a guidline than an actual complete wishlist. But here it is anyway. Wishlist: http://a.co/5ilq6h3

In a desire to end on a positive note to this update, in just 2 more payments, the cat payment will be paid off. We owe less than $110 on the cat at this point, and he will be paid off in February - his 2nd anniversary of adoption. This at least gives me the feeling that I'm moving forward. I'm going to keep trying to make at least the $65 a month I've been paying on him, and start putting it toward other bills, paying off the smallest of our credit card debts first and working my way up. We'll see how that works out.

Thank you all for all your positive and encouraging thoughts and comments. I KNOW we will get through this some how. Keep moving forward. Hope strengthens, fear kills. The Force is with me and I am one with the Force. And all other inspiring quotes from random movies and books that are 90% of what keeps me going and keeps me positive. (Feel free to share some of yours - I'd love to collect more.) Thank you again.

Our situation FAQ (updated today, 1/7/2017): http://www.tygerwolfe.com/gofundme-faq/

PayPal: http://www.paypal.me/tygerwolfe

Square Cash: http://www.cash.me/$Tygerwolfe

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/tygerwolfe

GoFundMe: http://www.gofundme.com/helptygerwolfe

If you all read this far, you're more awesome than I can express. Thank you for your attention. I really appreciate it.
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