Resistance is _________
I'm fully latching onto and into the Vitamin D Resistance realm. It just makes too much damn sense. Each of you already knows the details, as incessant exposure to direct sunlight improves my physical energy state (whereas a lack of sunlight severely detracts from my energy envelope). I won't go into that right here and right now, but that's the direction I'm heading right now.
Despite having found a local doctor here that administers the Coimbra Protocol, I cannot participate. Doing so requires at least 2.5 litres of water per day. And that's not possible, much due to my feeding tube and the related complications / restrictions that would come into play.
So, finding alternate methods to increase my vitamin d (above and beyond bleaching my brains out in the desert summer sun) has been a focus.
Hopeful Liquid
I should have my new feeding formula today. I hope. Liquid Hope, to be specific. It's got far less protein than the formula I'm taking right now, but that can be worked out later if I do not have a bad reaction to the formula itself. Right now, anytime I utilize my feeding formula I blow up like a hot air balloon. And then all sorts of other issues come into play. Mostly painful. Unless I just lay down flat in bed. For hours at a time. Or even all day. That's not something I want to give up, my freedom to move around in this world.
So here's hoping the new formula (with five varieties of protein, versus the one type of protein in Kate Farms) somehow reduces my extreme intestinal bloating.
Results Resulting in Answers
Within the next 30 days I'm supposed to receive results regarding my muscle biopsy. My expectation is that they will find out absolutely nothing. Because that's the way this illness works. Or whatever it is that ails me. It's up to me to resolve, discover, formulate, and fix myself. And the same goes for you. Good luck to us all!
Or, if you happen to be religious, God Luck to y'all!
Sleep Less Mess
Instead of struggling multiple times to get back to sleep overnight (interruptions interruptions, near constant interruptions) I am instead getting out of bed at a very very early hour and heading out on the road. If I'm not going to sleep, I might as well be out there. Plus it's getting too damn hot to be outside (for prolonged periods of time) during the daylight hours.
The only side effect of this virtual sleeplessness is that I'm getting dizzy in the evenings fairly often. I'm assuming positions and disorientation because of the sleep deprivation. Or maybe it's the after effects of the codeine. 24 hours later. And then also, my mental acuity varies greatly. Sometimes the sleeplessness enhances my creative methodologies, while other times I feel like a big dumb dumb. A numb dumb dumb. A dumb dumb taking nunchucks to the skull. Repeatedly and without purpose.
At least, and this is rather surprising to me, the lack of sleep doesn't seem to be as packed full as it was when I was in really really bad shape. I mean, yes, my energy level decreases by 20 to 30%, but I can still function at that level right now. Before, that level of energy degradation left me motionless in bed.
I won't get into anything else here. This is merely an update regarding my physical condition and status. Not too exciting, huh? I do, however, I have had lots of interesting socialization experiences of late. Observations. That sort of thing. Which I hope to include in my next entry. And also, I hope my writing quality increases. I am writing things in the background, taking notes, making observations etc, but the words are kind of clumpy and clunky and full of cluttered cliches.
Take care,
Howard
In Darkness I Compose
The Sun Also Rises (in Phoenix)
Captivated or Captured?
The Early Morning Affords
Vitamin D Resistance:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.655739/full
I'm fully latching onto and into the Vitamin D Resistance realm. It just makes too much damn sense. Each of you already knows the details, as incessant exposure to direct sunlight improves my physical energy state (whereas a lack of sunlight severely detracts from my energy envelope). I won't go into that right here and right now, but that's the direction I'm heading right now.
Despite having found a local doctor here that administers the Coimbra Protocol, I cannot participate. Doing so requires at least 2.5 litres of water per day. And that's not possible, much due to my feeding tube and the related complications / restrictions that would come into play.
So, finding alternate methods to increase my vitamin d (above and beyond bleaching my brains out in the desert summer sun) has been a focus.
Hopeful Liquid
I should have my new feeding formula today. I hope. Liquid Hope, to be specific. It's got far less protein than the formula I'm taking right now, but that can be worked out later if I do not have a bad reaction to the formula itself. Right now, anytime I utilize my feeding formula I blow up like a hot air balloon. And then all sorts of other issues come into play. Mostly painful. Unless I just lay down flat in bed. For hours at a time. Or even all day. That's not something I want to give up, my freedom to move around in this world.
So here's hoping the new formula (with five varieties of protein, versus the one type of protein in Kate Farms) somehow reduces my extreme intestinal bloating.
Results Resulting in Answers
Within the next 30 days I'm supposed to receive results regarding my muscle biopsy. My expectation is that they will find out absolutely nothing. Because that's the way this illness works. Or whatever it is that ails me. It's up to me to resolve, discover, formulate, and fix myself. And the same goes for you. Good luck to us all!
Or, if you happen to be religious, God Luck to y'all!
Sleep Less Mess
Instead of struggling multiple times to get back to sleep overnight (interruptions interruptions, near constant interruptions) I am instead getting out of bed at a very very early hour and heading out on the road. If I'm not going to sleep, I might as well be out there. Plus it's getting too damn hot to be outside (for prolonged periods of time) during the daylight hours.
The only side effect of this virtual sleeplessness is that I'm getting dizzy in the evenings fairly often. I'm assuming positions and disorientation because of the sleep deprivation. Or maybe it's the after effects of the codeine. 24 hours later. And then also, my mental acuity varies greatly. Sometimes the sleeplessness enhances my creative methodologies, while other times I feel like a big dumb dumb. A numb dumb dumb. A dumb dumb taking nunchucks to the skull. Repeatedly and without purpose.
At least, and this is rather surprising to me, the lack of sleep doesn't seem to be as packed full as it was when I was in really really bad shape. I mean, yes, my energy level decreases by 20 to 30%, but I can still function at that level right now. Before, that level of energy degradation left me motionless in bed.
I won't get into anything else here. This is merely an update regarding my physical condition and status. Not too exciting, huh? I do, however, I have had lots of interesting socialization experiences of late. Observations. That sort of thing. Which I hope to include in my next entry. And also, I hope my writing quality increases. I am writing things in the background, taking notes, making observations etc, but the words are kind of clumpy and clunky and full of cluttered cliches.
Take care,
Howard
In Darkness I Compose
The Sun Also Rises (in Phoenix)
Captivated or Captured?
The Early Morning Affords
Vitamin D Resistance:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.655739/full
