Definitely got to get a new mask. We're going to pick one out when he returns from donating. I'll use money from my job to cover it. After about an hour of air leaking out of my mouth, I took off the mask and slept for another hour or so without it until my nose was an issue. I was okay when I put it back on, but between that and fragmented sleep, I'm not as awake as yesterday. So there is a 50/50 chance I'm gonna have mouth leaks whenever I wear the thing. Until I get properly sealed up, we're not going to get an accurate sense of AHI scores or energy levels. I don't expect the mask or the harness to be as comfortable, but if that's what it's going to take, so be it. 

Yesterday's energy was amazing! It lasted all day. Today's AHI score was 10 due to all the leaks. It's lucky I'm not super exhausted today. I worry that the fragmented sleep is going to be an issue in affecting my energy, but Tom’s sleep is fragmented and it doesn't affect his.

I feel like my TSH is pushing down, and I still have over a week until I go to the lab, so I've got to go easy on the vitamin D intake. That could account for some of the sleep frags. My weight is also dropping again, and I'm warmer.

The shower drain was clogged but when I made a few gentle plunges with a plunger, that fixed it.

Yesterday I started to feel a pinch of doubt when it came to Jade, but later in the day she proved that something is definitely up with her. Yeah, I'm learning they have, well, preferences, for lack of a better word, along with varying degrees of energy. Melanie said that not all of them can or want to communicate through pendulums or whatever, so we stick to the EMF reader. I've definitely gotten some reactions to things that correlate with most of my questions and seem hard to write off as a coincidence. Not only does she seem to like the tall dresser in the bedroom better than the long one, but she also prefers to be on the left side. On that side, she's much more reactive. I slowly swung the reader around her head, above it, to the sides, and lower, like by her stomach, and she wasn't nearly as reactive as when it was focused on her face and upper chest area. I just wish I could learn more!  If an entity really inhabits her, who is she, and why did she pick this doll to inhabit? 

Tom and I have been talking about getting out of the US, even though I don't see it ever happening. We may be adventurers in many ways, but I don't see us ever getting that brave. It's just that I really believe the rest of our lives will be spent struggling to pay off one medical debt after another if we stay in the US. Really, we're never going to get ahead with this low of an income. Not in this country. I can totally see how my parents ran out of money in the end. Totally. There are some countries in Central and South America that might be good candidates, but we don't want to live in the jungle either. The bugs and allergies I have to deal with in this subtropical climate are more than enough. If we were ever serious about considering getting out of the country, I think our best bet would be Portugal. It has both a public and a private health system, and the cost of living seems reasonable. The climate may still present allergy issues depending on where in the country you go, but I don't know that it would be anything like here. I love the Algarve region. 

The only negative is that no matter which country we went to, we could never afford to buy or rent a house. Well, I definitely don't want to go back to living attached to others and having to listen to blasting TVs, the thumping beat of their music, footsteps, screaming kids, door slamming, dogs barking, and furniture sliding around. I sure would love the Mediterranean diet though, and I can read quite a bit of Portuguese because it's so similar to Spanish, and have no doubt that with my knack for languages, I could get fluent speaking it within a year or two. Let's just say it would be much more adventurous than moving back out west, even if I don't see us ever pulling it off. We would literally have to dump everything and go over there with little more than just the clothes on our backs. If I thought the rewards would be worth it in the end, I would be willing to do that, but there are so many other risks and unknowns.

In VR travels, I made it from Slovakia to Hungary. I'll be in that country for longer than I was in Slovakia, and even longer once I get to Serbia. 

Still labeling Blogger entries and trying to decide what's worth labeling. Some things are obvious, but I don't want to label just anything and everything and have a mile-long list of labels. I want to label only the people, places, and things that have had regularity or some kind of impact on my life. So I'll probably remove Hanna and Abby's label at some point because Stacey's daughters just don't matter. I don't want to tag someone I only thought of or messaged a few times. But Stacey herself had much more of an impact on my life, of course. Tagging her will also pull up posts containing the California Stacey once I get to them. I'm trying to group things better too. Rather than have a label for Benadryl and a label for Zyrtec and a label for Claritin, I'm just throwing them all under antihistamines.