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A bit after noon, and 60 F outside. It's between 63/64 indoors in most of the house, though 68 in the front room, for now. It takes a while for the computer, router, and myself to warm this area. But... wow. Very strange. Fed Sassy and brushed my teeth first thing, this time. I've not been brushing as regularly as I'd like, but I just can't... function.
Hot, cold, medium? It just doesn't seem to matter. I keep aiming higher, and failing to fire. Never quite sorting out whether I would hit the target as I never pull the trigger on things. Trying. We'll see. A shower in a bit.
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I was to bed around three? Four? As late as six, if I think earlier as suggested. I slept well, once I warmed up. It was quite cool last night. I haven't needed the fans for a day. Almost thinking of turning the furnace back on! One more night of it being that cool, and I'll have no choice. Not going to risk freezing pipes. I don't think it's quite that cold, but don't want to risk it if it is getting below freezing out there.
Dreamed of being attacked with machetes. Not quite sure what brought that about. I don't think I had any involvement with the attacker. Confused for someone else? A hater I didn't know I had? Meh. Liver and a kidney were hit. I lived, got better, as usual. He didn't. Never did sort out who he was, or what that was about.
There are people, closer, close, and more distant who well might if they got the chance. Or... so they say. Always interesting to see if a man, or boy, has convictions of his oaths, when the target of those is put right before them. I've... faced that before. Obviously they didn't kill me, eh Tom? And... your lad. Both of you failed.
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I have to wait an half hour after brushing my teeth before having coffee, or anything but water. Hmm, I think I will have a water, come to think of it. And I can have medicine. Just no coffee, tea, vinegar, or anything more acidic or base. Does that really work, is that true? I doubt everything. But I... still follow some things that seem wiser, or easier, not to test. Like brushing for (at least two, I do two to three, minutes... that really, really, does make a difference... I have purposefully, with intention to discern, compared).
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I have cut water consumption. I had been running five to seven cans of carbonated water a day, plus one to two coffees (and/or a tea) a day. Down to two to four, plus two hot drinks, a day. So I have cut the waterpills. A good thing, I think. Plus, but cutting waterpills, for now, and seeing how that goes, I also reduce the amount of potassium I take. Those two being tied.
Still taking extra electrolyte type minerals. But not needing to take actual electrolytes regularly. I still get a dose in every other, third, or fourth day. If I get a hankering for it, I'll add it to one of my waters. If that satisfies, I'll not do it again for a while. If I crave it, I might run a few days together. But that hasn't happened in a while.
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Today is the day to change the bandaging. I keep bumping the wound, but never quite sure when or how. I just realize it is hurting. Though I think, perhaps, I have been rolling more at night? I am sure it is getting thumped then. My rolling has been alligator-like. From dreams too? Whatever. I'll get that reset after the shower. I am hoping that stupid thing heals up sooner than much later. It is getting better, but... it was a pretty big wound, and is in a bad place. Never going to let this happen, or last this long, again. I have gotten lucky.
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Well? It's time to get some coffee. Look around a bit more. Then get on to the shower and day. Later.
Had training on my day off(today)(yay Overtime). So, after the beef,
ReplyDeletebeans& onion yesterday, Had some strawberries afternoon, blood sugar dropping??? craved fruit, I need to get a blood glucose meter to add to my diagnostic toolkit. (we'll see how many adds I'll get just from mentioning)
Got up at 0400 to "try and beat the masses..." Got my double sized travel cup, sliced off 1/4" of the unsalted butter added hot coffee to 3/4 full, then topped off with heavy cream... So good! Drank it all by the time I got to work when the same amount of black coffee I could nurse all night/ morning. Was licking my lips for a couple hours, tasting it(most likely got butter in my mustache). Available my whole life, never tried it. I'll really have to... experiment... I might like this too much. Didn't eat anything. Just water. About 1100 ~6 hrs after the coffee, in class, Mini hot flash,(sure my face was red) forehead clammy, heart pumping hard(for no known reason) hints of "pre"nausea. Picked out my escape path, grabbed my wrist to feel the pulse and deep breathe myself out of it. Don't think anyone noticed. If I would have had the balls to risk an unnecessary ER visit, I'd have stood up, said "Oh.I don't feel good" then sit back down and watch the fun start. Cherry on top would be answering their diagnostic questions with lyrics from "Comfortably Numb" (sure you know that one).
Can't explain the cause of my little bout. Maybe the fat coffee, got my stomach fired up and digesting stuff, acid flowing...then I drink water for the rest of the time. Problems... LbL (little by little)
Yes, I go through that, sometimes, with a fatted drink. Pretty similar symptoms. Usually not all of them, save, from my experiences, when on an otherwise empty stomach. The bitters have helped, with that very specifically. Haven't really gotten back to eating just protein and fat, though, quite yet. But that will be the next test (of bitters, and those symptoms).
ReplyDeleteEither salt, overcooked protein, or both, along with medium to higher fats (especially if the fats are hot), will give me those symptoms too. Yes, bitters helped with the fatted coffee, for certain. Probably help with the other food combinations too.
On the good side? After a few weeks... to a month... treating the nausea from fatted coffee, with bitters, I, usually, don't need bitters (unless, sometimes, when I have a second dose of the stuff later in the day).
Definitely on the "comfortably numb" think. That song brought the first inklings that there was something much more wrong than what I was being told. That whole album, really.
Oh, lbl is also a famous American bird. Well, can be found in most countries, continents. (little brown/black bird) Just helping your ornithological practice.
Oh, and... you know we used to be in empires, right? Ruled by emperors? Then... kingdoms. Ruled by kings. You know what we live in now? Countries. Ruled by? :p
Lbl in this case is a double secret meaning. I've been using it here as little-by-little, Where I work, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. not only LBNL acronym But Little by little We'll get things fixed. Bureaucracy at its slowest.
ReplyDeleteHad a ancestor(Viking ruler named Knut (something))...(swap the n&u) Was that a Knutry ?
I got one portion of lbl, your way. But definitely get the more specific form of it. Just working with the V.A., and often medical in general too.
ReplyDeleteAnd... yes. Well, those crazy vikings couldn't spell English worth merde. But... they got their points across. So, that works.
Though, there... are good things to be said by little by little. Too fast, and like losing weight too fast, learning too much too fast, or changing things too fast in any way? Probably not good. Even the smart bois eventually figure this out, after burning their worlds, and too many bridges, a few times.
If you want to do things fast? For good or ill, you have to kill them all, first. Then start over from the ashes. Which... rarely works out. I think one of the few revolutions to work, up to forty or fifty years ago, was the US one. Actually, I think it started failing because of the Civil war. The wrong side won, for the wrong reasons. It wasn't about slavery on the personal side, it was about slavery on the grand scale, the feds being the new slave owners. Bleh.
I do not disagree with your history critique.
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