Midnight thirty.

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Well, when I awoke.  Tried to stay it.  Only made it to one.  Fine.

Sassy was fed, first thing.  She didn't get much food yesterday?  I think she only got one can.  Usually I feed her two.  Oddly, she didn't fuss much.

Blood sugar is a little high.  I is 122 fasting.  Perhaps because of the odd sleep patterns, and some form of exhaustion.  Plus the pain.  Lots and lots of pains, aches, and such.  I have noticed blood sugar rises when I am in pain.  They say it is cortisol levels, from that.  I don't know.  A stress hormone?  I'm... not sure they have it, or anything, correct.  What I do know is that pain, and stress, can elevate blood sugar.  Oh... it might also be from being awake where the last two nights I slept longer.  Yes, that can throw it for whatever reason.

Does it do the same for insulin though?  While they do parallel, I doubt if raising one always raises the other?  I don't know, and even if they did, if they thought it might get people off medicine, they wouldn't say.  And for other reasons.  Medicine, as with other sciences, have become prostitutes.  Just... selling poison on the side.  Because... they deserve it?

Trying to sort some things out with food, though, too.  And water.  Cutting down on the pickled meats.  But, too, cutting down on carbonated water.  Tasty, and I like both, but they are causing, I think, water retention.  It is, slowly, coming out.  My belly is back to it's wrinkly form, from weight loss.  My feet and ankles, legs too really... up to the calf or so?  Give or take... are still a bit puffy.  Not as bad as they were.  It's taken a week of extra attention, four days?  Somewhere in there.  To get water going.  Another four days to a week, and I am hoping to be back in trim with regards to fluids in the body.  Need some, but too much and it is like carrying twenty to forty extra, in the feet, torso, and sometimes the hands.  Ugh.

I keep forgetting evening medicine.  I've hit every other night, but need to make that every night.  Always something.

Trying to talk a friend into smoking a brisket.  Going halvsies.  And, while he is doing that, see if salt can be made to take on that smoky flavor.  They charge a ton for it.  I'm not sure I like it that much.  But would like to see.  More?  If it isn't smoky enough, smoke it several times over the next year.  Get it really deeply smoky.  Plus, I can be sure nothing odd, or chemical, will be added.  Can't trust companies, at all, these days.  They were always suspect.  But now they have just become downright human hating.  They seem out to kill us, full bore.  The less you buy, processed, the better.  And, even meats, if you can afford it, buy local.