10:31 I barely escaped going to the ER last night. I believe my insulin went bad and after the last injection and the three hours drive yesterday with no stops and then sitting at the computer, started to have some terrible cramp like pains in the left foot, very painful, like someone heavy stepped on my leg. It was like that. No pain for about 1-2 minutes and then a shooting pain that lasted about 5 seconds, awakening me like 100 times.
I also forgot the wi-fi on on my PC after i turned it on in the hotel, but there it was 2 meters away and here is less than one meter.
I took some ibuprofen and wrapped my foot in aluminum foil to preserve heat and finally feel asleep @4 AM. At 9 AM they came upstairs to vacuum the kitchen area after Friday before we left they did a carpet cleaning. There is also noise and vibration at the construction site.
We got a notice in the mail. Tomorrow they will start doing all siding in select buildings and one is building D across. A couple of years ago when they replaced the windows they also replaced the siding above and under the window, which counts for about half of the siding in front and rear of the building. A few more years ago they fixed siding and replaced large areas of it.
Now i have a burning sensation in both my calves and some sporadic shooting pains again in my left foot and soreness at the injection site.
Last night before i went to bed i also found and plugged a number of holes in the ceiling on top of where the AC blows. They were tiny holes in the paint like the paint shrank when it dried, but when touched with a dental probe, the probe went easily through.
The whole ceiling is bent in places by the up and down motion of the building when vehicles, some heavy, hit the speed bump in the alley and started to crack. Yes i was wrong in this posting. The outer "foundation" of the stairs gave in because of that speed bump and gargantuan trucks that most are not from here that move day and night and hit that bump.
1:57 PM I slept 3 more hours (after being awakened a number of times). The shooting pain is still there, though it lasts now only a second and is located in the tendon above the big toe of my left foot. I feel no pain when i massage the thing which indicates it is sciatic (if it's not, God forbid, in my brain).
But then why it shoots only when i stress out? And why it does not start if i keep the other foot on top of it?
There are also signs of dehydration. Toes and fingers are hard to bend and i feel no thirst and that is indication of falling of maybe litter dust through the tiny holes on top of the AC or presence of poop in the yard. Stomach and esophagus pain indicate i have been breathing that s...t yesterday.
10:17 It was not the insulin but the fast current of cold air coming from the cheap AC and inside the car.
10:18 Kale soup is elaborate but the results are up to the effort.
Hardest part of course is to obtain the kale when in season and then to wash it.
You need a big vessel of at least one gallon, cut the thicker ends that are more than half cm thick and throw them and then fill the vessel with cold water from the tap and then wash as much kale as you can hold in one hand at a time by reputedly immersing and letting loose and catch it again in several waters until the water is clear with no residues at the bottom before you throw the water.
All the other ingredients are well known and common in produce areas in grocery store. Best to go Sunday early norming when everything is freshly stocked. Sometimes organic items (bio, eco) are not as fresh as the others because of course people don't buy them as much. Yes, ideal is to go to a farmers' market. It looks kale is the first to grow and most abundant in your own tiny garden.
Wash 4 medium potatoes. 3 beets (a whole bunch), 2 carrots and one onion and optional one tomato, thoroughly in several waters. Peel the potatoes. Cut them in cubes. Don't need to peel the beets before cutting them in cubes. Cut the carrots first longitudinally in four and then in small pieces a few mm thick. Peel the onion of one layer and chop it. Chop the tomato.
Roll the kale in manageable rolls and cut it perpendicularly as small as you can (about half cm will suffice). Yes, it would look like fettuccini LOL
Chop half onion and wrap the other in plastic foil and put in the fridge.
Sauté the chopped onion in olive oil for a couple of minutes on medium high or until translucent with your favorite spices (sweet paprika, curry and freshly ground pepper), add one or two spoons of white flour and mix and press with a kitchen nylon pallet until golden brown, then add some V8 and then a couple of inches of boiled water.
Put the potatoes, beets both cut in one cm cubes and carrots cut in pieces. Set it on high and wait to boil. Add the chopped kale. Add more boiling water (from a boiler or a separate pot) to cover it all. Some just add (bottled) water. I use bottled water for all soups. Bring it to a boil on high and then lower temperature to low (2.5 on electric stoves) and then set the timer to 15 minutes.
Ideal would be a glass lid to cover because it keeps more heat inside being a heat insulator and thus you need less vitamin destroying heat at bottom. Adjust the temperature to a simmering.
Set the timer to 15 minutes. Wash and roll and cut some parsley and add and boil a bit more. About 10-15 grams of salt would suffice for the amounts above (1/2 to 3/4 of a topped spoon) but you can go by taste. Note the liquid will be much saltier before all those ingredients absorb salt.
I hate to make it only like to eat it if i didn't make it myself.
In the end you need a big soup spoon (i believe it is called ladle)? to portion.
Because it contains beets and potatoes it is a variant of a traditional Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian beets soup called borscht and it goes well with a bit of sour cream on top and yes you need a small army to eat this amount.
Though it can last in a well adjusted fridge (under 40 F or 4 C) for several days because of slightly acid ph (sourness) due to V8 and tomato, provided you cool it fast and put in in the fridge on a rack (to cool faster) and not on bottom and eat it like me, at past midnight, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As for the epidemic of "mental illnesses" in the US i believe there is only one thing to blame. Outdoor (traffic) and indoor (building materials, poor design) pollution.
When you live in a building that sheds stingy insulation and stingy sulfur dioxide loaded pieces of cardboard from walls dust you of course become overly excited and wanna go shopping like in a mall where there is less of that and then when the dose is lower with less noise and vibration and stimulation on your skin and guts you suddenly crash.
Of course you can control it provided you realize when it happens which is kind of impossible. I believe you can control it except for the pheromones. That is the toughest of all.
12:00 PM Just realized all icons on my desktop doubled their size and can't remember doing anything. This is scarry. Doubling doubling? Could it be i used a different cable for the monitor in the weekend and that changed the settings?
I can still feel the cat litter deodorant that fell in the room through those holes. Need to look for more holes and i am so lazy right now.
