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I had a really horrible night of sleep last night. I don't know why I didn't take Ibuprofen when the cramps started. Well, okay, yes I do. I wanted them to go away. I wanted it to just be spotting, not a full-on period, and i wanted to be fully in touch with my body and what level of pain was going on. So, I had cramps, I slept from 6-9, then got up and had dinner. Went back to sleep at midnight-ish, fully aware that this was a whole period, but not cramping too much. Since I quit drinking caffeine I haven't had very horrible cramps at all. Just an hour or so of dull ache and then nothing. This is huge for me. But this was not the case yesterday. I was so uncomfortable all night. Holy shit. In and out of sleep, moaning, in tons of pain, sweating... and still I don't get up and take drugs. Finally, when my mom was getting ready for work at 5am I rolled ut of bed, buttered a piece of bread, and took 4 ibuprofen with a glass of water.  I went back to bed. Just after the sun came up I fell asleep soundly until 10:30. Whew. I needed it.
Lately I don't want to take anything. No caffeine, no alcohol, no pain killers of any sort. I like this new way. I need to, of course, apply this way to the mass quantities of sugar I've been consuming, but... all in good time.

On another note: I've been obsessively listening to Radio Lab. I just finished the show titled "Diagnosis" and in the last part of the show, they discuss how in the 20's, scientists diagnosed SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) as being the effect of an enlarged thymus gland.( Status Thymeco Lymphaticus )

Guess what I'm doing...

Looking at a worm. It's about the size of a hair, about as long as my pinky nail is wide. I can see its organs pumping in its body. How can I see this, you ask? Well... With my NEW MICROSCOPE!! My mom got me a motherfucking microscope! It's a stereo microscope. So, not the kind with the stage and 4 different lenses (that's a compound microscope).  It's not necessarily for looking at cells really closely, which I do definitely want to be able to do in my next microscope, but more for the surface of things. And I can see the cells in a leaf, but not the parts of the cell.. just the walls.
This is so freaking exciting. I'm going to start shoving everything under the microscope. Already I've been looking at bones, rubber bands, my skin, shells, water from the cove -- which includes lots of living things... I don't know how to classify the things I'm looking at, and I have a feeling my beginning biology for science majors class probably didn't cover that quite thoroughly enough. All in due time...

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