Last night, I failed at getting to bed around 11. Instead, I stayed up, such as it was, nodding off in front of the t.v. until close to 1 a.m., and then toddled off to bed. At least I went to bed in the spare room, so at least I'd have an uninterrupted sleep experience. Tonight I'll do better. The Murphy bed is already down, so it's a matter of setting a timer, and doing certain things to prepare me for bed. Perhaps I'll crochet a bit to relax. It's been a while since I've hooked.
This morning, Maharajah decided to work from home, so that changes my morning routine and gives me more time for me and my Kaizen experiment. I managed to not only ride the recumbent bike for THIRTY MINUTES, but I also gave myself an additional five minutes, and elevated my legs to help with blood flow (and get some fresh blood back in my legs when I stand back up.
I've also decided to make a few tweaks to my daily dietary supplement line up, too. I've ordered up some (30 mg) zinc glycinate gel caps, and some "P5P" pyridoxal-5-phosphate to take instead of my pyroxidine caps--P5P is a more bio-available form of vitamin B6, and I am hoping it will help me with this pesky proteinuria situation. And since that capsule has about 100 mg of magnesium in them (and I plan on taking 2 a day), I'm going to discontinue taking a separate 400 mg magnesium capsule--and I hope that lowering the magnesium will also make an impact. The supplements arrive by 3/31, and it will give me close to two months of dosing before I see my kidney guy for my 6 month check up.
I am hoping with these supplement tweaks, as well as the Quercetin I started taking a while back, will be just the thing to disturb and change the uric acid & proteinuria problem. My numbers in my blood tests might be "holding steady," as my kidney guy says, but given the "borderline left ventricular hypertrophy" on that TTE from last week, I am now back to being terrorized/traumatized by the idea that no matter how vigilant or compliant I am, there's only so much I can do and my body and family's health legacy will fight me every fucking step of the way.
My body continues to be a cantankerous asshole, and I am still not on speaking terms with it.
This morning, Maharajah decided to work from home, so that changes my morning routine and gives me more time for me and my Kaizen experiment. I managed to not only ride the recumbent bike for THIRTY MINUTES, but I also gave myself an additional five minutes, and elevated my legs to help with blood flow (and get some fresh blood back in my legs when I stand back up.
I've also decided to make a few tweaks to my daily dietary supplement line up, too. I've ordered up some (30 mg) zinc glycinate gel caps, and some "P5P" pyridoxal-5-phosphate to take instead of my pyroxidine caps--P5P is a more bio-available form of vitamin B6, and I am hoping it will help me with this pesky proteinuria situation. And since that capsule has about 100 mg of magnesium in them (and I plan on taking 2 a day), I'm going to discontinue taking a separate 400 mg magnesium capsule--and I hope that lowering the magnesium will also make an impact. The supplements arrive by 3/31, and it will give me close to two months of dosing before I see my kidney guy for my 6 month check up.
I am hoping with these supplement tweaks, as well as the Quercetin I started taking a while back, will be just the thing to disturb and change the uric acid & proteinuria problem. My numbers in my blood tests might be "holding steady," as my kidney guy says, but given the "borderline left ventricular hypertrophy" on that TTE from last week, I am now back to being terrorized/traumatized by the idea that no matter how vigilant or compliant I am, there's only so much I can do and my body and family's health legacy will fight me every fucking step of the way.
My body continues to be a cantankerous asshole, and I am still not on speaking terms with it.
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