I love beating the alarm clock.

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By six minutes this morning.  If I had hoped to be awake earlier, this will do.  I woke at 4:30?  Around there.  But could not compel myself to wake.  I did put in effort.  To be honest, I had to shove to get up and out now.  Have a little headache for it.

Fed Sassy first thing.  It's 64 in the front room.  Probably won't turn the furnace on, up, until or unless I start feeling the icy grip of cool, cold, and feel that sleep might become necessary otherwise.  Always a risk I'll just crash when that happens, by the time I notice.  But... okay.

I just can't eat.  Other than for wound healing, I frankly don't care.  I've gained, or really maintained the extra weight from before, if mostly fluids.  I'm working on fluid removal, again.  I dumped 2.5 liters last night, so... it's starting to work.  Can't quite wear the full compression, but do have the open toe shorties on under my wools today.  

That'll work until it bubbles over the top of those socks.  Muffin topping?  Or some such.  With women, it's with yoga pants at the waist, with guys, it's with compression socks at the calf or knee.  Though, at that point, my feet and ankles will fit in extended compression gear.  It will get some fluid out, but the main thing is to get my feet, ankles, and calves able to handle longer, heavier duty, compression.  That, after a week, will remove... two to three liters a night for a week or two.  Keeping up with consumption, and previous retention.  Then I can relax, and just wear those things two to four times a week.

Oh, but compression does seem to help with wound healing.  It does add to the pain, sometimes.  But, as with a few other things which hurt, it's... worth the value, up to some point.  I couldn't start from the start.  Tried that.  Not... way too much pain, way too quickly.  Start with shorties.

As for food?  I don't know.  I may just go without for a while, again.  I don't mind.  Though, after the antibiotics, I should get back to kefir.  I have some samples frozen.  I need to get storebought milk, to start it out easy.  Maybe three gallons, over two weeks.  Then get back to raw whole milk.  Thankfully that is available too.  And, I've gotten pretty good at setting kefir up quickly.

Kefir, and fatted coffee?  I can live on that for longer periods.  Maybe, this month or next, I'll get the propane tanks filled and begin grilling from time to time, again, on the flattop.  That is a nice, easy, way to cook.  If it's not too cold, if you can stand, and such.  

Hmm... I miss kefir, anyway.  Half a quart a day.  Sometimes with berries, rarely with other fruits.  Nice stuff.  And it really changes the internals, if it becomes a bit... addictive.  Not as tobacco or coffee even, more like... if you stop?  Your whole g.i. can put on the breaks for a few days to a week.  Or sure slows down.  It doesn't cause allout constipation, just... reduces the bulk push.  The stuff grows, in there, and expands.  When it stops doing that, things just slow up.  Not to painful bm's, just rarer.  Takes a bit of getting used to, again.

Yes, kefir.  Good stuff.  Later.