Awake.

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It is 9:30.  It is rough.  The torso organ belt feels like I was in a fight, one of the longer desperate ones.  Recently.  I went to bed around 20:00, woke at midnight, down by 2:00, so... a lot of sleep.  The feet are a little sore, but that is a good thing.  Cuticles had rebuilt, needed chipping.  I really can't get those, and they really have to be removed.  And just the massage was so new, that I have to recover.  But, trust me, it is well worth the short-term pains.

Something else I noticed, while brushing my teeth?  I have been keeping up, shaving, showering.  I am seeing my face.  It's been for a while now.  I just noticed how much of a difference it makes.  Old, fat as I count things, but clean, perhaps healthier looking?  I might consider a haircut.  Maybe.  If swimming becomes regular, maybe.  I hate getting a good clip only to watch it fall into shaggy disrepair.  Long hair, I decided, is better.  I'll decide in a month.

Actually my knees are a bit sore.  Not damaged, and there might be a reason.  Tired, in rough feeling general shape.  I wonder how much of that is age typical?  No matter, I'll keep at things as much as possible.  Fasting blood sugar is a bit high, at 225.  Given that I have completely fallen off any sort of regular diet, and been eating poorly when I do eat, it's not bad.  As well, that is my fasting number.  It will drop after good food, or will when I get acclimated too fat burning again, if I have even fallen out.  My body WANTS to use fat, it was born to it.  It's now difficult to kick keto.

So, yeah.  Medicine, just no aspirin for a while.  I won't do bp until I have been back on meds for a week or two, back on keto and intermittent fasting, keeping housework up as is possible, maintaining the critters, getting swimming gear checked charged and loaded... then get swimming and hiking.  I may begin hiking with just water, hiking sticks, a jacket, and hat... just around town?  It would be the easiest, least expensive.

My doctor called.  One of his employees.  Offering to send a script for the last thing the V.A. had me on.  No thanks.  If you remember, on that stuff, my blood sugar was so high the meter Couldn't read it.  Then the V.A. wanted to put me on insulin on top of it.  I just stopped working with the V.A. after that.  I did get the name of the insulin I requested, and will check the price.  My guess?  It'll be beyond my immediate reach, at $1600 and change, if the change could be in the hundreds.  I'll call after this.  I might be able to save for it, maybe.  It would be a very lean year, but if possible I am pretty sure I would stop being diabetic.  In a year to as little as three months, and I would be done, especially if I could really hit keto.

Anyway.  It's a new day.  I'll do what I can.  Later.

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