March 30th

 So that fatigue. Hit me like a train yesterday.

This is what I did yesterday as a benchmark.

Got up, small bowl of muesli, black decaf tea ( no milk, no sugar ). Jump started the car, went to the hospital to take the heart monitor back, came home, probably 45 minutes all in, exhausted afterwards. Worked for most of the day. Ate an apple. Had a salad with some chicken for lunch at around 2pm. Hung 2 sheets on the line outside - which was a struggle.

Started figuring out a new doorbell - took the old one down, undoing two screws wiped me out, sat down at 5.15pm. Hazel looked at me and said maybe I should have a nap. Yeah. Exactly what I was thinking.

Woke up, dark outside, figured I should probably eat. What's the time. 11pm. Oh. Maybe not. But I should drink. Turned over.

Woke up to get a drink. 1.10am. Holy shit. Went back to bed.

Next time I checked the time it was 7.30am. Got up at 8am. Something like 14.5 hours of sleep. Bonkers. But I guess better than a few weeks ago when I was managing 20 hours in bed. Incidentally calorie wise yesterday I got to the heady heights of around 900 calories. Because I missed a meal - I am typically doing much better than this, this last week and a half. Still fat. Then again I slept for 14.5 hours. Not exactly an active lifestyle. It does make me wonder how many calories you need in a day if you do very little. I suspect the one size fits all eating guides are horribly wrong for some people.

Still got black eyes this morning. Less than they were yesterday. Back is fizzing. Left side of face has ghosts of tingles. But feel like I've got a bit more energy.

I dunno. I still wonder if there isn't something fundamentally fucked somewhere and this isn't just post viral malaise. I was reading yesterday that there is a difference between occluded arteries and calcified arteries. Based around statins - here's a wonderful paradox they don't tell you about statins - they reduce your cholestorol and can reduce plaqueing, but, they increase calcifcation and hardening of plaques - which then causes problems down the line. Who knew ? My calcifcation score was low. I didn't realise this still might mean I have occluded arteries though. Always something left unchecked isn't there. I am gonna assume I am ... ok cardio wise, as just about everything else has been checked. Despite the programmer in me screaming that assumptions are the thing that always brings everything crashing down. 

At least I don't feel super unwell anymore.

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