Health stuff, past hard part, onto slow progression 

So, last year, I was hospitalized. I had the over-weight trifecta: Blood Pressure, Type 2 'Beetus, and Sleep Apnea. And at the start, I was fine with medicating.

Riiiiiiiight up until I found out I happened into the side-effect group of continuous diarrhea for the beetus meds. I kept up with it for three weeks, then said fuck it. Nope.

At that point, I dropped most carbs from my diet, and by Feb, I had dropped my A1C to pre-beetus levels.

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Health stuff, past hard part, onto slow progression 

Since that point, I've fluctuated up and down. Progress has been harder since I don't have a thing to track to reduce my apnea besides my weight and since weight is so in flux, it drives me nuts if I track it directly.

The main reason I'm working on the apnea is that when I did the test, I'd stop breathing about every minute, which sucks. But half of those incidents were caused by heart stoppages. So. Uh. Shit.

Health stuff, past hard part, onto slow progression 

Thankfully those appear to have also been resolved by the CPAP machine. But I'm not a fan of my heart stopping since I don't have a back-up.

NOTE: Have back-up heart installed.

So, it's daily walks, and heart pills. And I gotta keep on that shit until I can go without. Presumably, the number I need to drop is my blood pressure so that I'm into 120/80 without medicine. After that, I suppose we can do another apnea test.

Health stuff, past hard part, onto slow progression 

Still, the second I can upload my brain to a robot, I will be first in line for that shit.

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