Hard times

[scarfman]

qtrhorserider's last chemo session, of four, was four weeks ago tomorrow. Though they told us that the aftereffects get worse each time, and they were right, it was still so routine by then that I haven't written about it here till now. Yesterday she began six weeks of weekdaily radiation therapy, fifteen minutes each afternoon. Side effects of that, we're told, amount to sunburn. Meanwhile her hair has begun to grow back.

However another unfortunate side effect of the medical issues and missed work is budget distress.

I've put up the PayPal donation button at AKOTAS that in the past I've used exclusively when having difficulty meeting the hosting costs there, but for now I intend to leave it up indefinitely.

One of the suggestions in the how-to-have-cancer pamphlet we got when all this started was to hold fundraisers, and we've created a trust with rox_law as primary trustee for that.

We've inquired at church about a benefit potluck.

We're cutting back on our cable package (if I can finally catch them on the phone tonight, during the few hours they're there while I'm not at work), and we still expect to be without home cable/internet for a few weeks from this coming Monday.

There are enough options for wifi around here that I can still hope to update cartoons and check email eveningly, and perhaps with no tv at home I'll write and draw more for awhile.