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  This morning started at 5° C after warm(ish) wet air moved in over night. Today will see a lot of light rain. The afternoon should see 7° C, but it will go up after the afternoon, and from 8pm until midnight it could be 8° C. Tomorrow could be a very mixed up day. There maybe generally light rain until midday (but 10am could see heavy rain). The afternoon could be dry with some sunshine. It will be a slightly warmer day than lately with 10° C in the afternoon.

  I'm not sure how to describe yesterday. It might have been good or it might have been bad. It probably depends one which end you are looking at it from.  One thing is for sure - not a lot of stuff got done yesterday.

  On Thursday I was still feeling the effects of walking in the freezing cold air on Wednesday. I decided that Yesterday I needed to do anything that might heal myself. Generally speaking, that involved keeping warm, and resting as much as possible. After I finished writing I was going to have a shower. I couldn't even bother to do that.

  To make matters worse, my weight and blood glucose was up a bit yesterday, and on a day when I wanted lots of hot food, I had to restrain myself. As I will come to further down the page, some of what I did yesterday did work. What I didn't do was to have a shower, and go out shopping in Tesco.

  What I did do yesterday was a lot of resting. I made sure my bedroom was warm enough to be comfortable, and spent much of the day there. Sometimes I snoozed, and sometimes I read my book, but I also spent a fair time reading stuff on the internet. I took a break for some lunch.

  It was not exactly a healthy lunch, but it was a very low sugar lunch. It was basically just sliced salami and rice crackers. I think it was a snack rather than part of dinner, but it could have been the other way around, when I had some ice cream and cake. My actual dinner was an Aldi ready meal of "Hunters Chicken with spicy potatoes".  The latter was small cubes of fried/roasted potatoes with a thin coating of paprika and maybe other spices. The Hunters chicken itself was a few lumps of chicken swimming in a very thick gravy. It may have had either bean sprouts or some strands of spaghetti in with it.  I thought it was fairly nice, but it did seem very unsubstantial. Maybe that was what was needed yesterday.

  As usual I had nothing better to do than watch my usual TV programmes in the evening. The only significant difference, assuming I remember correctly, was that I didn't stay watching until 11pm, and I was in bed by about 10.30pm. It is impossible to say for sure, but I think I was dreaming by 11pm, but the dream may have started later than that. I seemed easy enough to go to sleep.

  My memory of the dream was quite vague at times, but the setting was someone's flat in Blackheath. It had a very long settee along the back wall (opposite the main door into the room, but I am sure there was at least one more door).  I am unsure how many of us were there, but the significant characters were me, a woman who I was possibly in a relationship with. Another woman, or possibly a man - he/she didn't really seem to take part in anything (as far as I can remember).

  There was one other person. It was a nasty woman who had driven us to the flat. I don't really know why she was nasty, and it may have just been that she wanted to control everyone. She came into the room and said she would drive us all home again, but I wanted to stay with the woman who I seemed to have a special affinity for. It was all a bit confusing because she could have lived there, or across the other side of the heath.

  So far this all sounds rather vague and wishy washy, but it seemed to be building to an enjoyable end. I made it quite clear that I did not want a lift home, and the woman who I seemed to have a relationship with gripped my arm, and said she wanted me to stay with her. This did not go down well with the "nasty woman", but she had to let it be. Just as everyone else was leaving, and I would be on my own with the nice woman, I woke up with stomach pains.

  I am sure it was before 1am, and it seemed I had not been asleep long enough to start dreaming, particularly potential erotic dreams (although I have no idea when they usually happen - maybe it is in the early hours of sleep, and that is why I always forget all the juicy details of something.  At first I thought my discomfort was just the need to go for a pee. It was that as well, but it was a lot more than that.

  Over the next hour I made quite a few trips to the toilet. At first I was just passing some wind, but later on I passed some semi solid poo. I thought that was it, the job was done and I could go back to sleep, but as soon as I laid down in bed I got a more intense pain, almost but not quite like stomach cramps. Initially it seemed to be more wind. I did that and then went back to my bedroom, but I sat at my PC to see if I really had finished with the toilet. I hadn't !

  I really wanted to get back to sleep, but I was still very uncomfortable. I came to believe, rightly or wrongly, this was one of those side effects of Mounjaro they don't warn you about in the leaflet. That stuff does interfere with the passage of food to waste through the digestive system. I can only speculate that it had started to ferment in the bowel region. When I went back to the toilet I passed a bit more wind, and then whoosh !! It was the sort of thing you blame a bad curry for.

  I felt much better for that, although I was still not convinced it was all over. I sat at my PC, reading some technology news, for another 15 minutes to recover from that powerful bowel movement, and to try and be sure there would not be another. I finally got back into bed, and while I could feel some after effects, it did seem like I could relax, and finally get back to sleep again.

  I am pretty sure that I had another dream - maybe a bit closer to morning. I am also sure it was quite an interesting dream, but it seems it left no memory to help describe it. The only very feint, vague memory is that it was probably to do with computers or other electronic stuff. Maybe I only think that because I can't believe it could be the erotic promise of the earlier dream actually happening, or indeed an second helping of erotic dreaming.... which is a shame !

  After losing a couple of hours sleep in the night, and originally going to sleep later than I used to aim for, I think I can be forgiven for not getting up very early this morning. I did get up a little before 7am and had a pee. I then took screen shots of the weather forecasts, and went back to sleep again. I was quite surprised how much I slept. I thought I had just closed my eyes for a minute or two.

  It was 9pm, an hour or two later than usual when I had my breakfast of instant noodles, but before that there were other things to do. I had another pee before weighing myself. I was pleased to see that I had actually lost 300gm this morning. That was quite remarkable after having two bottle of very strong beers last night (I fact I had forgotten to mention earlier).

  I didn't check my blood glucose until just before I had breakfast. It was looking better than expected. The Contour meter read 6.1mmol/l, and that was very good. The GlucoRX meter read a fantastic 5.8mmol/l. The GlucoFix meter read 7.1mmol/l - the highest of all three, but still very good. It all took the average down to 6.33mmol/l. That is the second lowest this month, and I only beat it on 2 days last month (and not by much).

  My blood pressure seems very reasonable this morning, at least I think it is. Maybe 110/49 is a bit on the low side, but it is easy to raise it - 5 minutes of walking could easily get the systolic pressure up to 160.....probably. I don't think I feel as bad as yesterday, but I can't say I am raring to go this morning. The cold and now the rain as well, is not a recipe for any outdoor stuff.

  There are three things I could do today. One is likely, one is possible and the other is probably unlikely, but I have half the day to reconsider it. The most likely is to wash a few clothes today (and that would be after a shower - a fourth, and fairly likely thing). The next is to go shopping in Tesco (or possibly Aldi). There is nothing I need desperately, but topping up my stores would be a good thing sooner or later.

  The final thing would be to go out tonight. It is a birthday party for someone I have known of for many years, but I still don't really "know" him. The significant thing is that he has "hired" a band (some old friends of his) and so there will be hopefully good music, and an opportunity to get some band photos. It is taking place in The Swan pub in West Wickham. It is fairly easy to get to (5 stops on a train, and then a short bus ride up the hill). At this time I am not sure the pros (live band to photograph) outweigh the cons (going out on a cold, dark and wet night).

  If I survive what ever I do, I will report on it tomorrow - but don't expect much.....








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