Extra post...I'm not supposed to be here. Sh-h-h...

I woke at 1 a.m. and went to pee. No urgency, maybe habit. That's not too bad for me...my worst is once per hour...with urgency.


But, I have to say this...

...Why didn't someone tell me about the sweet dreaminess...the drifting off to dreamland of the 'plain' Liver Flush?


I drank the potion at 10 p.m., standing at the sink. It tasted kind of like an oily salad dressing, without herbals.

Then I had to wash my hands because a bit had dribbled from the edge of the small wide-mouth sealer jar I had it in.

I also added a spot of detergent to the bowl of water already in the sink, and popped in the potion jar. Then I turned out two lamps, because dh had gone to bed exactly at 10, his usual time, and left the lamps on.

I took off my gown, and as I bent to put my hands on the bed I could feel things moving in my stomach, though not strenuous or painful.

I lay on my back with my head high on the pillow, as suggested.

A moment later I heard/felt a gurgling in the bile duct...not long, and not severe in any way.

I felt other vague movements in my middle, but very small. And that was it...except a delicious sense of weariness...time to go to sleep.

But I forgot to lie 'perfectly' still. I reached for a Kleenex; lifted my head to see the clock; tried, gently, to raise my knees to my chest; and pulled the covers higher. During the 20 minutes I also shifted a little, wanting to turn onto my left side, but I waited.

When I rolled lazily to my left, I was warm and cozy, lovely and content. After a bit I drifted off.

Oh yes, I felt a tiny soreness in that deep place behind my right collar bone...that place that is connected somehow to the liver. A little while later I felt a small pang for a few inches down my neck below the right mastoid bone (behind my right ear). That was a new one on me...I've not felt that one before.

Somehow everything is connected, inside, I think.

I awoke at 1:05, and decided to visit the bathroom.

Then, because I wasn't sure I'd easily fall back to sleep, I decided to come here.

An hour later, it may be time to go to sleep once more.


So far, I haven't felt anything like the harshness I expected. Except for the effects of the grapefruit juice/Epsom salts twinges in my bowels, which weren't hard to bear, the sweet warmth of sleepiness, and the momentary small pang in my neck, there hasn't been anything I haven't felt before.

I am glad.

2:30 a.m. and I'm back to bed.

:D