Went to Red Fir Flat to Ascension Rock Yesterday with a friend

We took my wife's and my Corgi Dog along with us. She played in the snow a lot and rolled in it and nosed through it so I took some Iphone movies of that so I could send it around the world to my children wherever they live. My wife stayed and worked on a dress she was making with a friend of ours here. Later we got Pizza because I had found out that they have cauliflower crusts which are necessary for me since I can't eat gluten anymore. I found out that my edema completely went away when I gave up gluten in January. I haven't had to take Furosemide now since December which is great too. I didn't like taking that too for many reasons the last few years.

So, between getting my roboticss hernia surgery in Redding at the best surgeon of this kind on the west coast that I know of (By the way no pain after the first week at all! This is pretty amazing!)

The method I used was not to take anything like percoset or Oxycodone because when you take the heavier meds you cannot feel what is really going on with your muscles that are recently sewed up and you could tear out the stitches if you are not careful.

However, when I first got to Mt. Shasta after the Surgery in Late March I found myself shaking because I was refusing to take any pain killers at all. So, I realized this wasn't good so instead I took one advil and one Tylenol and I stopped shaking from the pain. My father had taught me how to sublimate pain by just not thinking about it as a child as he trained me to be an electrician because you are going to be injured (especially in your fingers and hands every day as an electrician as your hands and fingers get cut and you have to deal with pus and things like this all the time from being cut by wires and metal boxes and pulling wires through those boxes and 1 horsepower drills that hit a nail and slam your hand against a wall hopefully not breaking it.

So, I was taught during the 1950s how to sublimate pain by not thinking about the pain unless you are bleeding to death or something or need stitches you just try to think about something else and move on through your minor injuries and blood lettings. it's just something you deal with every day in the building trades.