Form: Diary

(Diary: Health Update. Well, I look, think, and feel a lot better. I’m not sure I’m all back together yet, but I’m sure getting there. I have gained almost five pounds, but I think that was necessary, and that I can burn it off. Most of recovering was getting rid of the pneumonia, simply working less, sleeping a lot more, and the rest was avoiding anything antagonizing my allergies. So I still need a bit of a allergy intolerant ‘bubble’ to live in. I have to avoid almost every single preservative there is (making my own butter etc). And the air in urban ukraine was apparently a bigger problem than I understood. So I’ll return to radiant heat and individual air conditioners, and avoid all the central air nonsense that seems to be hell for me. All that said, it looks like in the next ninety days or so I’ll be back in the swing of things. Need to do some serious weight training. This means that it took me a full year to recover this time. But that it could have taken me only six months if I had simply made that my first objective rather than trying to do that, the business and writing at the same time. Sigh. I just need to not do that again. That sucked…lol.)

(DIARY: Health update. Seems that I’ve made incremental progress again over the last month. Blood pressure, heart rate, and levels are all pretty much back to normal. Although I need to start working on strength now. And while I’m up to 192 lbs, I feel good for the first time in a year or two. I also feel I can enter the ‘flow’ more easily. I’m getting better free association results. And am getting bouts of energy and hints of interest in moving the business side as well as the philosophy side of my life. So while I am not fit and ready yet, I’m still getting better. Now, I actually don’t know how long it has taken me to recover from burnout and illness before. It’s hard to remember. I know that in 2012 it took me the better part of 18 months. I have no idea how long cancer in 2002 took. Since I stayed with it until 09 I can’t claim I ever recovered from it. And I know that in 97, after the sale of RedTech and that european flu that cost me 30lbs (and killed 200 people over there), it took more than a year and a half. I don’t think I had time to recover between divorce/cancer in 08/09 and 2011/2012. And my memory is too sketchy about the previous deals and illnesses before then. But I am not sure that I had any material illness and recovery problems before ’97. Normal life ups and downs. But nothing of that scale other than that damned ’77 Russian Flu (pandemic).)

(Skinny Curt after Surgery)

(running my own dim little test, and so far, making half a gallon of black tea with two tea bags, and serving it over ice produces better continuous results than coffee. Not that I’m going to give up my coffee. But the tea thing keeps me hydrated better and provides a slower more continuous effect.)