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tomorrow I’m eating a vegetable (that isn’t a potato)

02 Wednesday Apr 2025

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What a week. A whole seven days of being so sick I’ve barely been able to eat. By the time I got to Sunday I was feeling very weak and decided I had to start force-feeding myself or I wasn’t going to get better. This is my entire food intake since last Thursday (last proper meal).

Friday – piece of toast with honey (unfinished)
Saturday – bowl of shredded wheat cereal (unfinished)
Sunday – cooked ham on toast
Monday – cooked ham on toast
Tuesday – grilled cheese sandwich (brunch), bowl of mashed potatoes (early dinner)
Wednesday – scrambled egg sandwich (brunch), air-fried potatoes with melted cheese (early dinner)

Well okay, aside from this I drank a bottle of lemonade over Friday-Saturday and there were a couple of late night yoghurts (can’t remember exactly when). And I kept drinking water. So at least I was staying hydrated.

Anyhow, tomorrow I am determined to have a vegetable! I mean one that isn’t a potato. Because this food aversion has just been weird. I feel a bit better than over the weekend but still feeling far from okay, even with the meds I got on Monday. But at least today and yesterday I’ve been able to stay vertical most of the day and didn’t go to bed at 6.30 pm. Progress!

new hepa!

27 Thursday Mar 2025

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A couple of weeks ago my hepa purifier started acting wonky. At first it was just stopping randomly, and would go again if I pressed the start button, but this also set off the other buttons blinking away. Eventually it just stopped. So I checked here on my handy every day blog (most boring blog in the world!) and saw I’d bought it in July 2023 and it was still on warranty.

I found a Levoit service email online and wrote to them, not expecting much after all the hassle I got trying to replace the air fryer (which they never did). But to my surprise I got a reply the next day asking me to take a video of it “not working” when I pressed the start button, a copy of the invoice and a photo of the product ID number. I dutifully sent that off straight away and the next day got another email saying they had approved the replacement but they required a photo of the supply cord cut in half, to ensure it wouldn’t be used in the future. Um, okay.

Anyhow, a new hepa should be on its way soon, though apparently the guarantee on this one will only last until the end date of the original. Better than nothing!