minor health update

[mellowtigger]

I had a foot cramp last night. I'm not sure why. I've been good about avoiding gluten. I haven't had bread in several weeks, and I even switched to tamari (gluten-free soy sauce) from soy sauce. There are still some minor sources I've had recently, stuff that I've always tolerated well before. I hope I'm not growing more sensitive. My neurons don't handle it well, and I don't want to be a teetotaler with gluten.

I know I have arthritis up and down my spine (x-rays have shown it at the top and the bottom), and I know it's very slowly getting worse as the years go by. It still seems like I'm developing arthritis in my hands too. Cracking ice trays is getting a lot harder to do well. And I've started dropping things in the sink when I try to wash them but a sudden pain bites me. I hope it never progresses enough to make typing difficult. I don't have any skills that I could be employed without typing. (And it might affect my game playing! The horror!)

It's an odd-numbered month, so I'm back on low dose aspirin. This alternating schedule seems to have cleared up successfully the earlier issues, so I bleed slightly only every other month.