JayCS’s Fibro Blog

2024-06-23 Sunday

Summary:
(Updated & simplified template Jun 22nd)

  • LDN Jun 20th- 1.5mg :white_check_mark: Jun 19th 3mg. May 20th-Jun 18th. 3.5mg (Mar 21st- 3mg) :white_check_mark: for Energy “30%” :white_check_mark:, partly usable = 13% (:x:), energy profile “very slow” to “slow” (:x:), TT n/a, jackknives :white_check_mark:, walking / cycling 20’ (:x:).
  • Triggers: Doc appts. May 29th: 9 days :x:, Jun 7th ?d :x:, Jun 10th :x::x::x:. 0 bites :white_check_mark:.
  • = LDN vs. appt.-flares: Reducing LDN is curbing the appt.-flares, so I can move a bit more nimbly, energy up a little.
  • Last focal seizure: Jun 20th (+15d). Esophagus block Jun 25th: sweet potato.
  • Sleep: Screen curfew late :x:, late bed cos of: birds, bees, blog, camera, guinea pigs. “:white_check_mark:”. QCS at 10:00 :white_check_mark:. Airing: 6h :white_check_mark:.
  • Thoughts: -
  • Feelings: -
  • Foggies: I can no longer compensate dropping things with fast intuitive body movements. What falls, falls.
  • Simplifying: Less voice notes, pics are enough (time- and example-wise).
  • Cheer: see:

Pic(k)s of the Day

= expanding happiness … re-living loads of exciting moments…
Coming up today: Clouds, blossoms, grass, gosling quintuplets, ducks, heron, guinea pig, ladybird mystery, bit of danger today…:

Just clouds…… drifting….:

Plants
Death come quickly close-up (yeah, that’s really one of the English names! Comes from being used as a herb, so associated with witchcraft (but aren’t many?). It’s been studied for its improving the likes of Parkinson’s):


”Gold lacquer” (once again), studied for inflammation, used as a herb in traditional Persian medicine:

Lazy phacelia (again) in front of the house growing and attracting more and more bees – altho non-native):

”Wooly honey grass in the sun, again:
IMG_20240623_160455 Wollige Honiggras Holcus lanatus im Gras in Sonne smaller
Need to capture it, as I’m harvesting the grass bit by bit, like here cock’s foot:

Birds
Boy have the grey geese quintuplets grown, mum is really proud (dad hasn’t been around a while):


…and here 2 of the goslings – being ‘twins’-plus - are scratching themselves synchronically: at least 5 of their movements were identical, and ended at the same time

The ducklings haven’t developed full plumage yet, but the lake now seems “full” (at least when they think they’re getting fed), more than double, something like 100:

And here also the movements together illustrate them being ‘twins’-plus, these 4 are I think 4 of 8:

2 moorhen littl’uns we saw too, here’s one with mum and goose mum:

When I slow-cycled back home this grey heron flew over 50m in front of me to the {Graben} and then slowly went down:
VID_20240623_174905.mp4 0'17'' Graureiher flog 100m vor mir zum Graben und ging dann langsam rein
This white willow is always an amazing sight:

Taped loads of swifts near, like this:

but now more often a group of 6 near, caught 5 of them…:

…and they were part of a group of 10:

Maybe a small woodpigeon feather, blacker than the pic:


The jacks often sit on 1 or 2 of the houses opposite…:

…if the raven/crow doesn’t come over to play catch with them, a domino effect…:*
VID_20240623_210801 4'11'' Raven-Crow out to chase a row of chattering jackdaws from a roof
VID_20240623_210801 4'11'' Raven-Crow out to chase a row of chattering jackdaws from a roof 2
…or a short time later someone lights a banger after the goal Germany scored against Switzerland (before when people cheered they “answered” but didn’t fly up.):
Listen those few seconds by clicking here (if vocaroo works for you).

The reception team on the antenna (which always call and greet the incoming jacks for the night’s roost) left last, but left too:
VID_20240623_211648 0'07'' Schuss jagt Dohlen hoch, zuletzt von Antenne

Animals: the oat flake tub wasn’t meant for self-service, but our cheeky little tooth guinea pig found out that he can eat them well that way, so loves it, and it’s a nice simplification for my feeding:



Insects
One of many examples where I couldn’t see if it was muck or alive. 2 days later it’s still there, so proves it’s muck:

And this was much tinier, only 1mm, impossible to discern with bare eye, difficult to focus on, but turns out to be the tiniest ladybird there is. I could only find out that ladybirds don’t grow after morphing from larva, but the only ladybird I’ve found that’s 1mm is so rare that I can’t find a pic, and grouped together with ones that don’t look like our typical ladybirds, whilst this does. Here the untidy spots remind us of an Asian ladybug, but they’re bigger than native ones, 5.5-7.5mm. So another mystery – no wonder I’m behind with the blog!:


Here s/he’s moving the right fore-foot, a film snip, so s/he’s definitely alive, but I’m unsure what black thingy s/he’s sitting on, my wife thinks it’s the larva rest, could be. Next day the ladybird was gone and the rest does look a bit lady(bird)like:

This would be the normal pretty big Asian lady beetle, don’t think I’ve had this one yet:

The last ‘nice’ one, a Western honey bee in the trailing bellflowers again. As they were looking bedraggled after I dragged them from the flowerbed over the patio slabs to give the dovesfoot geranium some space, I put some old twigs under them, and that’s helping them recover, whilst the dovesfoot is doing its best:

Warning - now come the beautifully yucky ones…:
The green bottle fly, so lovely shiny and their maggots brilliant bacteria-free for clearing up bad wounds. Couldn’t find out why they’re called gold flies in German, reminds me of the German phrase “to make gold out of shit” – some may say that’s part of my philosophy/attitude…:

This devil’s coach horse beetle (whoa! ;-P) was first under the mat I’d left outside in the damp overnight together with some woodlice, but it was too fast for me yesterday. Then today I found it in the cellar under my shoes, sadly not fast anymore, but at least now immortalized:

A similar sad case. Why is sad a reason to be cheerful? Cos it’s getting to grips with reality, all part of nature, like what’s happened to me, acceptance, this is all a necessary part of creation. So… this cute garden grass-veneer on the cellar door…:

… fell into the threads and hands of pretty steatoda nobilis. In German “noble globe spider”: why do Germans have vernacular names for spiders, the English for once don’t, are they scareder of spiders? ;-P. I find it makes a bit of difference knowing who this is happening to. Spiders keep our world cleaner - like slugs and probably every being - so we leave the webs be that aren’t yet uselessly dusty cobwebs, we have around 6 spiders in our bathroom, and that’s OK and natural. As well as making life easier.

Snails – just a tiny one on the oxeyes/suneyes today:

LDN: Looking back, increasing to 3mg has not helped with anything, if anything harmed, so: Jun 20th- 1.5mg: Brilliant sleep, subjectively lighter body, easier movements, but can't use the felt energy. Frontal sinusey headache all Friday, maybe only temporary. Jun 19th 3mg. May 20th-Jun 18th 3.5mg, click for effects/dosage (not under 4 Supps)

Walnuts, all apple sorts, larger portions of baked beans, I think that’s all LDN.
Forgetting Dec 23rd caused big energy dip immediately, so there’s no drug level, it works day to day. (It’s constantly and reliably improved mainly energy (from 10%), heaviness, walking (from 5’), fine motor skills, stiffness (from 70% down to 10%), recovery time, Ache, pains, sleep :white_check_mark:, possibly from Dec on drinking only 2L/d :white_check_mark: which is helping sleep, and possibly reducing histamine and/or tannin from walnuts :white_check_mark:, but not my paleness (yellow/white face, black eye rims and white lips) or listening ability/sense :x:. Last side effect was wobbliness, listening problems and Ache on day (1 and) 2 of 2mg (Dec 12th), before that “hangover” on Oct 20th :white_check_mark:.) .)
Dosage: (Slowly up from Oct 1st ~0.07mg). Oct 1st ~0.07mg evenings, 8th 14:20 0.125mg, 9th-15th 10:00 0.125mg. 16th -19th 10:00 0.25mg. 20th-31st 0.5mg, 1st- 2x0.5mg, 10th (2+1)x0.5. 16th (1+1), 17th 2x0.5, 19th 1x1.5, Dec 11th 1x2, Dec 27th 1x2.25mg, Jan 10th 1x2.5mg, 16th 1x3mg. Feb 5th 1x1.5mg, Feb 8th-Mar 5th 1.5+0.75=2.25mg - “better than 3mg”. Mar 6th-7th 2.625mg, Mar 8th 2mg I think (2.75mg intended), Mar 9th 3mg, Mar 10th 2.75mg, Mar 21st-May 19th 3mg. May 20th-Jun 18th 3.5mg.
Additives: white capsules with TiO2 (HPMC with SiO2).

1) MAIN ISSUES: talking 20' ➔ 80%/4 ❌, music 10' ➔ 80%/3 (no nausea, strain less) ❌, white lips 70-80% (❌), TT n/a, moving easy inside a certain 'radius' ➔ 80%/3-4 (❌), balance (✅), body fog (❌), jackknives (✅), SO post exertional malaise (❌), 'post postural ache', 'PPA' (✅), stiffness (✅), exhaustibility theoretically '70%' ✅ / actually 87% ❌ and sleep 8h41 ✅ (Airing: 6h ✅. QCS: 10:00 ✅, 'PPA': 2 ✅). Energy profile: since Jun 10th 'very slow', with '8h rest', 4h very slow, 4h slow, 0h medium, 0h quick. Click for past months...
EXHAUSTIBILITY: Theoretically stably better from circadian rhythm, then LDN since Oct 1st - but moderate triggers bring it down to 10% for days to weeks.
SLEEP (click for tonight's details): 8h41, all deep ✅, QCS at 10:00 QCS = very quick very cold shower (22 issues under control).

Sleep 23:30-8:31 4+4+4+4+4=20’, 0 deep doze. Sum: h30+8h31-(x5’=)20’ = 9h01-20’ = 8h41.
23:30- cos of birds, bees, blog, camera, guinea pigs.
2:03 4’ A3 supps
3:33 2nd, 1st GABA, dry throat, deep sleep, ear plugs since 1st break, airing.
4:09 3rd cos of street blackie, 2nd GABA, throat very dry, so dry mouth gel.
5:18 4th woke from stinging wrist, Traumeel. woodpigeon’s starting made me close 2 of 3 windows, so 6h.
6:59 woke praps from sun, ear plugs back.
-8:31 deeper with windows shut and ear plugs. Frontal Headache 1 + nausea 2-3 for the last few hours.

2) Watching TRIGGERS, esp. of exhaustibility. Strain: (May 29th) doc appt. (9d) ❌, (Jun 7th) Bad 20-25' sleep lab psychiatrist appt, from Jun 8th on ❌. (Jun 10th) Too long 55' public health officer appt., immediately: ❌❌❌. Dentist's local anaesthesia on Feb 15th flared till Apr 28th ❌, next I'll need 3 tiny fillings, definitely without anaesthetic. Histamine foods: 20g goat/cow cheese (✅). Bites OK ✅. Click for list Nov 7th 2022 to Feb 20th...."

(Nov) 7th 2022 caused MCAS / histamine problems like the first 2 till around July. Esp. ENERGY DOWN further to (10-)15-20% (max.), but more slow energy. Each jab -5%.
Made me stop cryotherapy/acupressure and acupuncture from Dec on!
2023:
(Jan) TCM recommendations for a few weeks took my appetite.
(Feb) ~3% of levothyroxine (T4) pill Feb 24th till Mar 23rd: more energy, but lost appetite and weight and sleep, antihistamine back up to 10mg to curb T4-insomnia & histaminey symptoms (stopped cos causing nauseous sinus headaches & painfully dry mouth).
(Mar) inkling of Covid, negative, but cough, appetite, night sweats…
(Apr) cancer checking ending with weird onco,
(May) 20th… 17 stress triggers, till end of May: 8-12%, seizures May-June every 10d.
(June) 21st: circadian rhythm Better to 18(-24)% a few days, but mostly back down to ~10%:
(July) 19th-24th: 3 garden bird deaths
(Aug) July 31st-7th uro exam and methylene blue trial. 9th… severe vertigo, check in clinic no result, so trying blood meds again. Hindsight: Painful uro exam on 7th, stiff neck from bird deaths, twist-stretching too much.
(Résumé) These triggers are “monthly” and kept bringing energy down from 20% to 10%.
(Sept) Histamine/MCAS symptoms (headaches 0%, tongue burning 10-20%, down. Further painful bladder exam injured (‘screaming’ 3d) & scarred me, caused UTI (2x3d). CoV-type infection (12th 10 days) (hantavirus??), work stress, abdomen pains, 24th-: listening to music painful, guinea pig, wife, CVD meds bad.
(Oct) (V)LDN helping a “lot”, Complex filling OK, CVD meds bad, BP low and slow OK.
(Nov) Atorvastatin difficult.
(Dec) Guinea pigs, atorvastatin, boss, often post postural Ache, DAO: baked beans tough, better with less sauce and more DAO, but walnuts OK without now. 28th: car trip to kids and and only 2x20’ bad for several days. NYE stress.
2024:
(Jan): (1st) DAO: 0x: 100g baked beans with reduced tomato sauce for 2nd meal caused tongue to burn a bit for half an hour, 3x: 150g for 3rd meal caused no burnt tongue or histamine reaction at all, despite the addition :white_check_mark:: Makes a difference! (2nd) Clearly severely woozy brain from talking during TT. (3rd) Are the seizures on Monday, pee and TT issues praps all caused by histamine from the baked beans, despite DAO preventing direct reactions, and that’s decreasing serotonin? 6th: Phone alarm music causing hurt from listening? (8th) Onco appt. better in evening, worse at night and next morning, OK by 10th. (11th) Contrast orally plus injected (doc thinks the excipients) caused a week of overall Ache, but energy and stiffness OK-ish, then (15th) fairly severe vertigo with walking problems and then 3h of vomiting, diarrhea the following day, but firm before and after, nausea and pain continuing till 18th, 7 days, then suddenly OK. Praps the oral one for gut, rather than the intravenous one (seemed not too bad in August), or praps cos too frequent/soon after the last. (25th) professional tooth cleaning.
(Feb) (3rd) stomach praps from apples & naltrexone, insomnia praps from naltrexone 3mg, pain praps from ezetimibe 3mg. Strain and sadness from guinea pig eating losing appetite and weight again, 7th better. (8th) LDN down to 2.25mg improved 4 issues, so increasing to 2.5, then 3mg was too much (cos next to GABA?). (15th) Dentist (cap-preparation) went well, but flare 17th-… from local anaesthetic (16th) temp cap fell of, (20th) got it put back on. (29th) Cap on.
(Apr 28th) Recovering from the anaesthetic after 10.5 weeks. Unsuccessfully re- trialling DAO (Apr 20th-) for vanilla and raspberry in yogurt (April 16th-24th) and marmite (e.g. 25th): only worked for sinuses, NOT for pee / dryness, sleep and possibly seizures (2 on Apr 22nd).
(May 29th) Good 20-25’ allergist appt., fairly recovered Jun 7th (9d) :x:,
(Jun 7th) Bad 20-25’ sleep lab psychiatrist appt, first :white_check_mark:, from Jun 8th on :x:.
(Jun 10th) Too long 55’ public health officer appt., immediately: :x::x::x:.

(3) DOCS: Trying for higher disability from Apr 25th on. But (Jun 20th): Are the 7+ day-flares after appts. worth it?! Click for latest (Jun 22nd) details.)

DISABILITY: (May 29th) Allergist helpful (Jun 7th) sleep lab psychiatrist not helpful, coming up. Jun 10th appt. with public health officer for retirement too long, so postponing GP & dentist. (Jun 26th) Cardio, or postponing.
GP (Apr 25th): Just update (cancer and bp OK), and asking about possible help with sick notes and disability.
GP (Apr 25th): Just update (cancer and bp OK), and asking about possible help with sick notes and disability.
CARDIO (Apr 26th): Heart OK, (Feb 2nd) Belly plaque still “25” OK, next with bloods. (Dec 11th) Rosuvastatin?
DERM (Mar 19th): wart (but tea trea oil helped) on genetic enlargement under toenail.
ONCO: #2 (Jan 8th/11th/18th 2024): nothing in bloods or contrast CT, believes it’ll be nothing docs can find, the week of reactions likely from some excipient(s). That finishes the cancer exclusion Odyssey since April 2023.
URO (Nov 8th) IPP/PD shockwave therapy? (Bladder exam July 31st and bloods Aug 7th followed the vertigo/BP attack on the 9th - so maybe contributing, altho Aug 8th I could play TT 5:1.

(CVD, incl. med effects: Jun 22nd: Palpitations down, HR back to 65. Jun 7th: Watching palpitations (regularly lately) / HR 40 (new discovery Jun 7th). Click for latest (Jun 7th) & next changes, and details...)

(Jun 7th) Watching palpitations / HR 40 = bradycardia.
Mar 21st: Horse stance 70’’ ➔ 164/107-90 ➔ 139/94-69 ➔ 136/87-70, each inside of 1’. Confirms stopping candesartan.
Mar 17th BP getting too low, so stopped candesartan.
Thought Mar 17th: If BP spikes were from MCAS flare after bladder exam (in the summer), why is it now not spiking after local anaesthetic flare (in the winter)?
Atorvastatin Dec 16th- 0mg and ezetimibe Feb 4th- 0mg - trying 1mg again once LDN is sorted. BP :white_check_mark:, despite only ~1mg.
CANDESARTAN (BLOOD PRESSURE): Even alone starting Oct 24th was dreadful, but spreading over the day in ~0.5mg specks from 31st on worked, up to 4mg (5) since Nov 6th, but checking RR 24th/25th too low, so down to 2mg from Dec 10th. Dec 17th: BP at night sitting down :white_check_mark: (SBP ~100), so 2mg is a good compromise :white_check_mark:. (Jan 28th) been taking <1mg lately. Mar 17th: 0 since a few days now, cos BP low now.
ATORVASTATIN (LIPIDS): Nov 13th 1mg/d, + caused severe fatigue/Ache, stopped 24th, re-started 27th with specks of the middle without the mantle excipients good, but 28th 1+1 and then 2mg too late caused insomnia, so earlier in the day, increasing quickly from 29th to Dec 2nd: 10mg+, un-mantled, with first only slight problems, but increasing week of 4th, so Dec 10th-13th 0mg, 14th 5mg later likely caused pain 20:00-23:00… Summary without coating: Dec 2nd-9th: 10mg+, 10th-13th 0mg, 14th-15th 5mg, 16th- 0mg). Further trials.
EZETIMIBE (LIPIDS): Feb 3rd: muscle pain praps from 3mg, so 4th- 0mg.

4) UNDER CONTROL ✅ (attention necessary (✅)): Jun 25th: block from sweet potato, after it didn't go down, it was very easy to get out again this time. Re-ordering silymarin Jun 24th: praps anti-infl., anti-ox., praps praps detox (cf. Iberogast) & lipids). Jun ~10th creatine down to 1x2mg (see tub). Creatine monohydrate Apr 9th-Jun 9th 2x5g gave slightly more (slow) energy, but less than LDN - malate form next? Last seizure Jun 20th (1) (+15d ✅). Last esophagus block May 7th ✅: 7 months without ✅. Carnitine Apr 14th-, EGCg Apr 13th-. LDN: see separately (Jun 21st). Click for latest (Jun 22nd) & next changes...

Reduced vit. C to 3x400mg, like Masterjohn recommends. Nux vomica D12 helping for nausea from music/talk, sleep and bladder not much. Also for sleep: Cocculus and acidum nitricum later. Supp costs ~400€.)

1) GI, pee, local pains (incl. jaw & bladder), weather, dry mouth and drinking well under control: So no details at the moment.
(2) Seizures and esp. esophagus blocks fairly under control - click for details.

Last focal SEIZURES: 11 / 5 / 12 / 18 / 8 / 5 / 6 / 14 / 10 / 11 / 8 / 6 / 9 / 15 (Jun 20th 2024). Stress, histamine & less GABA. JUN 20th (+15d) (23:19 rabbit hole) Jun 5th (2x, +9d) (9:54 rabbit hole, 17:52 TT, < GABA). MAY (4x): 27th (+6d) 21st (+8d, after TT, < GABA) & 13th (+11d: < sleep) 2nd (+10d: TT), APR (3x): 22nd (2x: after TT), 8th (4x: errands, eating, TT, kids on 7th) 2nd (TT) MAR (3x): 28th (TT) 20th (TT) 2nd. FEB (3x): 19th, 14th, 3rd. JAN24 (1x): 1st (3x) DEC23 (2-3x): ~22nd (2x, slight) 2nd & 3rd (15’ of concert & GABA; TT & GABA) NOV (3x): 20th (food fell off spoon) 13th (wind noise) 5th (slight, after TT & GABA) OCT (2x): 27th (ex-flat mate, but 2x seizure-ish 26th), 18th/19th (3x, busy street, emotional music). SEP (1x): 19th? AUG (2x): 9th, vertigo day: (2x, 13:42 & 15:40). 1st: 4-5x seizure-ish. JULY (2x): 25th seizure-ish 3-4x. 17th (2x, thunderstorm). 9th TT. July 7th seizure-ish 4x. JUN (3x): 23rd (4): 11:30 12:15 14:00 15:06, 2 before, 2 after antihistamine, confused night, sleep meds too late etc. & 16th 20:05, 6th 2x. MAY (3x): 25th 2x, histamine & GABA, 14th. 13th (stress? GABA). APR (2x): Apr 16th 15th (GABA late, cold type symptoms = histamine), MAR (1x): 31st 19:00 (GABA, meeting), FEB 0x. JAN (3x): 15th pee urge 14th ?GABA 5th (scolded). DEC22 11th. NOV22 21st 2x.

Last esophagus BLOCKS: Jun 25th: sweet potato. May 7th 2024. Oct 21st 2023. Sep 30th, (25th,) 16th, 11th. Aug 31st, 26th & 8th, July 23rd & 16th, May 31st, Apr 4th. Deleted further details on/from Dec 30th 2023, cos last block worth counting on Oct 21st. Mindfulness, care, stop eating if slightest pressure, 0224-06-22: better acid / gut.

SELF-TREATMENT & SUPPS optimal, stable, but necessary, re-ordering silymarin Jun 24th. Carnitine Apr 14th-, Apr 13th EGCg, Apr 9th- creatine 2x5g (Mar 19th- 2g in the morning). Jan 16th: Less magnolia bark and pine bark cos of possible vertigo side effect. No ellagic acid (not convinced of use) or feverfew (serotonin and dizziness as possible side effect). LDN see separately. Jan 10th: ~29 supps + LDN (was 40) costs ~400€/m (was 350€/m) +20€/m cps. Last changes see before Aug 22nd 2023.)
SELF-PHYSIO: Always OK, see before Aug 22nd what I now always do when needed. Jaw-joint end of Sept. Nov: salivating technique(s) for dry mouth:
Supps: Re-order silymarin Jun 24th: praps anti-infl., anti-ox., praps praps detox (cf. Iberogast) & lipids), see research Jun 22nd. Carnitine Apr 14th-, EGCg Apr 13th-. LDN see separately. Mar 19th- creatine monohydrate 2g, then 5g before morning meal, next praps as malate. Jan 18th: Reduced vit. C to 3x400mg like Masterjohn suggests. Jan 10th 2024: 29 supps + LDN cost ?400€/m (was 395€/m) +20€/m cps. 16th: no feverfew (reduces serotonin, possible dizziness), less magnolia bark and pine bark (cos of possible dizziness/vertigo). 10th: no ellagic acid (not convinced of use). Dec 22nd/23rd: stopping ginkgo caused hearing, tinnitus & balance problems for 15h. Dec 19th/20th: DAO working for walnuts, but only 10% (on 13th) for baked beans, retried, but hardly useful. No/hardly B2 lately. Nattokinase Nov 4th- : 1x0.1g, from 15th 2x0.1g. Oct 16th: Silymarin 2x.5g now (till when?), LDN see separately. Deleted details Dec 30th: Stopped eleuthero, cos of BP. NADH. Theanine 2x0.1g since about Sept. Last changes see before Aug 22nd. For details on the lists, with dosing batches by times and tubs see before Aug 22nd:

‘Research’ today
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/06/21/anaerobic-exercise-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-oxygen/
German sport doc Perikles Simon says for Post Covid and ME/CFS we should be doing exercises 30’’ at a time. Well, tell me something new… But now instead of preaching this to everyone, I can say a doc said so, and that Cort reported it.

Quality of life: 90%

Lessons in self-care:
My wife wanted me to stay at the lake, she only had time for 10’, but when she’d gone, I was nauseous after cycling fairly normally there, so decided to go back immediately, which let me see the heron and rest at home.
Reasons to be cheerful: See pics.
a)-d) Plant, bird & animal life:
a) Plants: (Newest blossoms)
b) Birds:
(Every day cheer, song/calls/seen: Woodpigeons :white_check_mark: Blackbirds :white_check_mark: Robins :white_check_mark: Sparrows :white_check_mark: Blackcap :white_check_mark: Swifts increased: 30x :white_check_mark:, Magpies often :white_check_mark: Jacks :white_check_mark:, bathing drastically increased today, cos of heat and no wind: 8x/h, I had to fill up the 3 main saucers 5-6x today :white_check_mark:), Raven(s)/crows (I’ve started doubting again) 0, Great&BlueTits (back, and in nesting box, we think) :white_check_mark:, Collared dove back :white_check_mark:.
Latest / earliest robin song: …22:40/ <3:45… (blackbirds mostly finished by 22:15, only 1 22:30)

(Regular cheer, song/calls/seen - Chaffinch :white_check_mark:, Chiffchaff :white_check_mark:, Wren lots :white_check_mark:, Dunnocks 0, Nuthatches 0, Great Woodpeckers left mid-June 0.

  • Goslings and ducklings in the lake are almost fully grown.
  • 19:23 taped a new kind of squawking near me, but maybe just a young blackbird.
  • 21:19 Raven/crow chased jacks after “they got too loud”, it seemed - couldn’t quite get it on tape. After there was a cheer cos of an EM-goal, jacks moved a little, then something like a gun shot further away, which made them all fly up, whilst the raven/crow made a cawing sound as if laughing.

c) Animals: (guinea pig antics :white_check_mark:. Redbrown squirrel :white_check_mark:)
Bats :white_check_mark: Bank vole(s) (:white_check_mark:). Insects: bees, flies, spiders, butterflies & bugs :white_check_mark:. Snails & slugs :white_check_mark:.

e) Human life: (TT n/a. Skip-Bo :white_check_mark: Wife :white_check_mark: Art: my paintings :white_check_mark: Music listening (:white_check_mark:) Nice talks (:white_check_mark:))
f) Environment: (outdoors/fresh air :white_check_mark:.)
g) Body: (“Theoretical” energy 30% (:white_check_mark:).)

Foggies: (Body (:x:). Brain (:x:).) Dropping a boiled egg several times made me jittery, my wife comforted me not to worry. Noticeable that I can no longer compensate dropping things with fast intuitive body movements. What falls, falls.

Simplified: Less voice notes, pics are enough (time- and example-wise).

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More details before Aug 22nd.
Entry changes (June 19th 2023)
Biggest successes (June 18th 2023)
Summary of fibro 2020-2021, jabs 2022 and first half of 2023