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Thursday 5th 28F/-2C [9.15] Overcast but slightly less windy. 58F/14C in the room. Snow expected after lunch.
Up at 8.10 after a typically disturbed night. Feeling dizzy and slightly nauseous. Struggling to see the computer screen clearly. My vision is really fuzzy. I am having to be careful while moving about.
10.00 60F/ 15.6C. Stove lit. Just sitting with my eyes closed and hoping my breakfast stays down.
12.00 62F/16.7C. I dozed for an hour in an armchair. Which was uncomfortable. Then for another hour in bed. Until I had a strange dream. About receiving a phone call from an elderly builder in Danish. Who kept repeating hulmur! Which means "cavity walls." I don't have any. In order to reply I had to get up to put my hearing aids in. It was only then that I realised I had been dreaming.
I have a slightly upset stomach but haven't been sick. No idea what might have caused it. I am always so careful about hygiene and thoroughly cooking everything. Probably overcooking meat if truth be told. It was lucky that I managed to light the stove with beech flakes and fire lighters. So I could relax and add logs as needed.
16.30 62F/16.7C. I have spent the day sitting and watching YT videos. Still dizzy. I've had nothing to eat or drink until now. I am going to have a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit. A lack of fluids is considered poor behavior.
It has ben snowing for some time. Very fine, like frozen rain. It is blowing off the shed roofs and traveling horizontally. I doubt there is more than a centimeter or two lying on the ground so far. The DMI shows the snow clouds at my location are clearing northwards. While reforming on the rear skirts. A wide, yet stable band of sleet lies over the most southern parts of Denmark. With more snow over Germany to the south. While TV2 shows our area as lying well within the range of a snowstorm. Due to the snowfall and high winds. The latter are expected to reduce overnight.
Some trains, buses and public transport has been cancelled. In anticipation of heavy snowfall and icy roads. Some schools are closed too. Pictures of the frozen sea are appearing in the media. Including within Copenhagen. The ice on many lakes and ponds is now considered safe for public access. Thanks to increased thickness from continuous sub zero temperatures.
The large whale, which stranded and died on the cost of Denmark, at Albæk. Died due to a fishing net stuck in its throat. The poor thing had slowly starved to death! TV2 showed a specialist vet who carried out the autopsy. With his arms literally full of the 12kg of net. The video audio is in Danish.
The link simplified in English: TV2. The kaskelot [sperm] whale died of hunger. A discarded fishing net had blocked its throat.
20.00 63F/17C It is still snowing. I had another cup of tea. Still no appetite. I think I'll have a coffee with added milk. Riveting stuff, eh?
22.00 63F/17.2C. Gurgle suggests 15 cups of fluids per day to maintain normal hydration. 15 x ~150 = 2250mls. That's about one cup per hour! Eek!
Today's unpleasant symptoms exactly match one online description of dehydration on all listed points. Another Eek!
My daily intake of tea and coffee amounts to 6 x 200 ml mugs spread throughout the day = 1200mls. It really doesn't vary. I am a creature of habit. That's almost half the recommended daily total of fluids!
It was suggested by my doctor that I drink at least 1.5 liters of water in addition to my daily beverages. I don't like drinking water. It is freezing cold at this time of year due to frost penetration of the rural ground.
I do drink milk on my morning porridge oats. Though I have never measured the volume. Perhaps I should? I have a drop of milk in two cups of coffee per day but that doesn't alter the total liquid volume. I don't have milk in my tea and haven't since childhood. I don't drink juices or sugar bombs. Nor take sugar in any of my drinks.
I ought to have a covered jug or container to refill a glass near the computer. This will ensure the chill is taken off and [hopefully] become more palatable. It will also measure the volume of water I consume. Leaving no doubt. Nor room for cheating! That should increase my daily exercise running back and forth to the bathroom. A win-win situation.
22.45 I may not sleep but I still feel unwell. So I am going to bed anyway.
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