The crash was hard and fast, but I'm coming out of it a lot faster than I have in the past. I'm pretty sure it's because of this:



That's salt. And a lot of it. I didn't quite consume the entire Great Rann of Kutch, but it felt close.

It stabilized my heart rate and helped me to gradually replenish the energy reserves that were totally gone. I'm quite sure it helped with the low blood volume that plagues people with M.E.

The admonition to eat less salt is wrong for almost everyone anyway. On top of which, people with M.E. most likely need more salt than average. I'm going to be upping my salt intake generally, though not to the heights it was the past week.

We put up blackout curtains a couple days ago, and I've been waking up feeling far more rested than since first moving to this apartment. My schedule is still a disaster, but getting a good sleep at whatever time seems to already be helping my health. One curtain in the den so a bright light doesn't shine through here at night and confuse our senses, and a bigger one in the bedroom so almost no light gets in when we're trying to sleep. They, and the apartment-friendly curtain rods, were actually pretty cheap. They're not fancy and a little bit of light does still get in, but if we wanted no light at all ever we'd have taped aluminum foil over the windows like a guy I once dated did. (He had to work nights.) I consider them a necessity in today's "shine the brightest lights you can everywhere 24/7" hellscape.