Awake, for what it is worth.

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No idea when it was when I went to bed.  After midnight, almost certainly.  After one, three, five?  I... simply don't know.  I looked at the time.  I think it was after five.  But that may have been a dream.  Just a dream.  Powerful, strange, dreams, of late.  Imagine bureaucracies burning?  Dreams.  Corrections.  Evil portions of government, law, even public big businesses, corrected in the strictest of manners.  But, too, dreams of life, and death, mine and others.  Strange dreams.

I woke a bit earlier, but didn't actually get out of bed until 13:00, right at... though a few minutes after, by the time I was downstairs, and had fed the girls.  They were hungry, it is late.  As things shift, I do my best to feed them more around certain times of day than by my schedule.  Of course, that shifts as my schedule shifts.  I just... do my best.

A shower, shortly.  Then more laundry in.  Whatever else is possible.  Seems dark, if the sun may have been out, for a short bit?  Who knows, it might actually be out off and on, or even now.  Can't tell, nor am I quite ready to go out and check.  Still tired.  And I do hurt a bit.

I am guessing the pain, currently, if mild as well as persistent, has to do with the loss of fluids.  As I purge excess liquids, my body had to adjust muscles, organ placement, connective tissue, and cavities which had once held pockets of water... blood... or whatever else.  What appears as fat, often, is just water... fluid.  Well, some of it.

Still, it is slowly improving.  Or I am getting used to the pains?  A bit of both.  My legs are almost completely back to normal.  The skin is still a bit loose, but is readjusting.  Which, really, made me realize that the pains might well have been from fluid removal.  My legs, skin to muscle, do hurt a bit but nearly normalized.  I would guess I probably have seven to ten more gallons of extra fluid to get out.  Though I can't get it all out in one go.

I'll give the higher dose of water pill through, say, another five to seven days.  Then drop it to normal for a few weeks.  Then, after a few weeks to a month, depending on how things are working, go back to a higher dose again.  Again, just for a week or so.  That is a lot of extra fluid weight.  Imagine wearing fifty to a hundred extra pounds, all the time.  Especially when all organs, including the heart, are taxed otherwise, on top of the extra weight.  Yea... I... will get rid of it.

A shower, some housekeeping... anything I can do.  Oh, but a bite to eat, first.  Really hungry.  Later.