Wonderful.

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While I didn't get any work done in the midnight to 6:00 shift, I seem to have taken care of the wet lungs and balanced hydration.  The extra dose, then two thirty six ounce doses of gaterade sort of set things up.  After that, two or three thirty six ouncers of water, and a lot of peeing, got it so that when I went to bed I was feeling more alive and breathing better.  Waking about an hour ago, on an even keel ensured what I suspected.  My guts still hurt from coughing as if I had been in a sparring match, with both hands tied behind my back.  And I still cough, now and again.  Just not constantly, or that deep into my gut and lungs.

I'll get a shower and bath in, then get going on some of my projects.  I will be checking the mail, delivering gifts, dropping off the checks, shopping at both places, and then seeing how I am doing.  If I still have mojo, I'll hit the kitchen, perhaps cook just a bit of meat for the rest of the week, and call it a day.  I am hoping, at the very least, to cook.  I'll just have to see when I finish with the rest.  Yes, push, when I can.  Gotta breath to push though.  Ah, but I figured out one of the problems I may end up facing, from time to time.  A little extra this, a little extra that, and... voila!

As for the pain?  All good.  This is minor stuff.  But figuring it out will allow me to push into more severe forms of suffering.  I won't get far just going up to pain, even to me severe pain, then backing off.  Unless I make it to corporeal failure, from time to time, I am not going to make it.  The escape trajectory is a monster climb.  I'm going to have to be beating my body into submission, even drowning in what feels like failure, until I am used to that and able to fight right on through.  That's just the way it goes.  So, yeah, I enjoyed.  More so that I figured it out, still tried to cut through down to a burnout, then figured out how to get past that.  One down shift was all, and in that I was playing doctor, chemist, athlete, right over the failure.  Now to get a bit more pushy about working on through failures.  It'll take some time and new experience.  And I really don't want to kill myself, so... taking some care until I see how, and what, works, is best.

Bath, shower... hmm... might shave first while I am at it.  I feel like a puppy all over again!  Later.