The Anonymous Widower

I Drunk A Lot Yesterday And Feel Much Better Today

Yesterday, I drunk more than I have for some time.  I had three mugs of tea before I left home, two cups of tea with my lunch in Carluccio’s and then perhaps another four mugs of tea during the afternoon and another one late at night. I also had a pint of Aspall Cyder down the pub during the presentation.

So I probably drunk about two and a half litres yesterday.

As a child, my mother was always getting me to drink more and often the only drink I had during the day, was the third of a pint bottle of milk and perhaps a small cup of tea. It was very difficult to get me to drink water and if I did drink anything else it was squash or her home made lemon drink, made to a Mrs. Beeton recipe.

From the time, I started drinking alcohol, I’ve generally been a pint of real ale man, although for years, I followed my father’s lead and drunk small bottles of Guinness.  Incidentally, those small bottles, which are unobtainable now, were low in gluten.

I think when I went gluten-free, I started to get the odd stiffness in my legs and breathing difficulties at this time of year.  I used to think, I needed to have a cup of coffee before tennis to get myself going. But could it be that I had cut down on my liquid intake, by avoiding pints of beer.  And also in those days a few years ago, decent cider, like Aspall wasn’t available in pubs.

I came out of hospital after the stroke feeling pretty rough and I don’t think I was drinking much inside. Basically, I’ve never been a great water drinker. I need something stronger, like tea, milk or lemonade.

I think I will keep up the high level of drinking.

As I’ve been drinking hard for the past month or so and having a deep bath every day, it does seem, that the stiffness in my lower legs has eased.

Strangely, my rhinitis isn’t too bad this morning either and my toe nails seem not to be their usual mess.

So perhaps the two most important women in my life, my mother and C, were right all along, in saying I should drink more.  C of course was always making me cups of tea, when she was at home, as she was a serious coffee and water drinker.

So perhaps we had mutually beneficial habits.  I think too, my son is another heavy drinker of the non-alcoholic kind.

But why is it, that things seem to always get worse for my body in the first few months of the year? I had a GP once, who said I might suffer from SAD or seasonal affected disorder. It did get better soon after that diagnosis, but C and I were taking at least a week’s holiday in the sun.

March 13, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Coffee, Drink, Tea, Water