Down around one.

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Up around four.  I just couldn't sleep longer.  I waited a few hours before finally having a fatted coffee.  I was hoping I could get back to bed, even for a few hours.  Not a chance.  So, finally, I got coffee water heating, and got going on that.  Then brushed my teeth.

I've been hitting the teeth twice daily, now, for a while.  Sometimes I just can't get to it.  Having a dental appointment coming up in a month or two sort of tickles the impulse.  I hate bad news.  And, yes, my teeth clean up well.  With coffee and/or tea as a one or twice daily, they won't ever be white.  Then again, I think back to the first product I have heard about for whitening teeth.  Urine.  The Romans used (at least just their own, to my knowledge) urine, as a gargle, to whiten their teeth.  Some acid or other in it?  Uric?  Something.

Now, to be honest?  Fresh urine is usually actually sanitary.  Even so, I'd rather not.  You really can drink it, in an emergency.  There are some exceptions, but I've never looked that deeply into the process.  So, the whole white teeth thing?  I think it started on the wrong foot, and actually went downhill from there.

The process of gargling one's own urine seems to have been lost with the fall of Rome.  When everyone is a low level lord, or lower?  Who cares?  But, when Europe started creating larger and more complex kingdoms, there came a want, again, for white teeth.  Thus... bleach.  Oh... it worked.  Right until it stripped all the enamel off, and the teeth rotted out of the prideful poppycock nobles' and royals' heads.  The only thing worse was syphilis and diabetes from sugar (which, thankfully, only the nobles and royals, then, could afford).  Henry VIII died from one or all of those last.

So... I... think I can not worry about those fake looking white teeth.  I have to guess there are serious side effects to whatever they are using to whiten teeth to the level some people are shining them?  I'm not sure what they are using, or which is better or worse.  Just... I... know a smidgen of history, on the topic, and it is none too pleasant.  Can't guess they are any, or much, better these days.  If you can trust the processes to be what they even say?  Bleh.

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It's not a terrible day, even if I got very scant sleep.  Not sure why.  It is, was, up to 72 up there, but I seemed cool enough, with the fan going.  Perhaps almost too cool?  But was able to snuggle in and get rightly warm.  But... it just didn't matter.  I couldn't sleep more.

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Oh, a couple of things, on the belly.  Compression seems to be helping.  Not sure if the help lasts, or only helps short term?  I won't really be giving it much time to figure that out, as I plan to maintain compression for the majority of my days.  Just taking off a layer or more when I sleep, perhaps all of it off through the night, for a few hours.  But the wrinkles?  I used to have a swarm of them, like a cracked window or mirror.  There are far fewer.

As well, I have been using one scoop of collagen.  The container says to use two.  Rather impressive, the effects, at half a dose.  I really wonder what a full dose will provide.  No, not being stingy, just misread.  Though it does say "one or/to two scoops", somewhere.  So that can be confusing.

Blood sugar, again, today, is 203.  Not fasting, though.  As I had something before bed, and only slept three hours.  And had fatted coffee first thing, or before testing.  Happy with that, down a hundred and thirty.  And, had fruit with yogurt last night, which... probably bumps what it should be by fifty points.  I need to get back to meat.  Well, meat, and the raw cream.  That is a success, now that I think I have nausea licked.

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A shower, shortly.  Then changing my wound dressing.  I have been trying the shower dressing cover, but... think I will try cling wrap.  I've having a heck of a time sealing that up.  Water keeps getting in.  Fubar.  The more careful I am, the worse it gets?  Bah!  Cling wrap.  That... usually works.  

I have been keeping up on dressing changes.  I am changing some things around though.  Rather than changing the dressing before a shower, I do it after.  And, then, I use the big bordered breathing dressing for a day, in case water got in.  To let it air a bit.  Then, tomorrow, I will put on one of the better dressings, along with the collagen fiber, which needs wetted, then inserted carefully within the wound bed.

I'm almost getting good at it.  Though, I must admit, it still sometimes hurts.  No matter how careful I am.  Much less pain than I've had, and able to put compression over it.  Which exacerbates the hurting, but not beyond my tolerance.  Mostly.  I just put it on "ignore".  Mostly.  That and bumping it... or having Sassy bump it.  It's her favorite, only, place she will headbutt!  Gah!

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On with the day.  A shower.  Hoping to call around, to check on grass finished beef, freshly butchered.  Or... what I can find on short notice.  Pricing, availability, volume, freshness.  I'll take what I can get, at the right price, on short notice.  And in a smaller amount, probably two to four thick steaks from several sellers, to see what I like?  I'll be cutting those in half, freezing some myself.  It's just got to happen.

I am pretty sure they give a discount if buying in volume.  Say, even a whole roast.  But... at least one of the stores will only give the reduced price if I take it whole, and bone and cut it myself.  Not sure I really want to do that, or currently.  Still, someone will probably be willing to do more?  Will see, or hear, shortly.

I plan on cutting the steaks in half, though.  That should be enough, with the two fatted drinks added.  Though I'll need to cut that to, say, a cup and a half.  Which shouldn't be an issue?  Oh, and maybe some burger, of that level, too.  Just a few pounds, from several sources?  Ugh.  Always details, the devil in them and all.

Later.