Saturday 10 September 2005

Pic of the day: The days blur.

Everydayness

During the last couple weeks, my throat has been sore a lot. Strangely, the day and a half when I had a terrible head cold, my throat was better. This may be because my respiratory tract released a lot of water. Most mornings now I wake up and my throat is very dry, sometimes so parched that I cannot swallow immediately. Drinking more doesn't help, as the water soon leaves the body again. Occasionally I have a bottle of water standing by my bed, but usually I forget it. But I have set the alarm to wake me earlier, so I don't have time to dry out so much. Right now this means I also get up earlier, for there is no effective way to set the alarm to "wake me up again in two hours" without doing a lot to change the settings, which requires me to be wide awake anyway. Perhaps I need a second alarm clock.

My rest pulse seem to vary from day to day. One of the days this week it was lower than ever since I started measuring it in the spring. (This is a good thing - I don't suffer from low pulse, it is just naturally lower than the average.) When the pulse is low, I try to take a hillwalk. When it is high, I try to stay at home. This seems to work well. I get less winded and tired and feel better.

For a while, I thought that my knees would put a stop to the walking, they got worse and worse, especially the left. But these last weeks they are much better. I have stopped taking the hill with the long slope down on the other side. It is walking down slopes and stairs that makes the knees hurt. Walking faster or walking & jogging on flat ground does not hurt them when they don't hurt already. I don't know if the problem is finally solved with this, but it has gone away for now.

I have not been playing my handheld games much - barely at all - because I have started on the fourth and final book in David Farland's Runelords series. It is not easy to put away. I do it, but it tends to eat up the time I would otherwise have spent with my Friends of Mineral Town.

On Monday I have the appointment with a surgeon in the province's main hospital to check my breast. Hopefully a full report is to follow, but I have grown ever more convinced that there is nothing wrong there. Also on Monday is a general election. But that is not for today.