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This is Your Warning to Drink More Water
From a Kidney Stone Survivor
Maybe you’re one of those people who doesn’t leave home without their four-litre, sticker-covered water bottle; who calls ice water “refreshing” and “tasty” and boasts about how they can tell the difference between bathroom tap water and kitchen tap water.
Or perhaps you’re like me and need to be reminded that drinking water is something that exists, that it’s important, and you ought to do it more often.
If you fall into the latter category, this is for you. The former seem to have everything figured out already, and we underlings can only but pray to reach their heights someday.
It’s not that water tastes bad, per se. It’s that it’s boring. And boring things, like finances and ironing, have a tendency to be demoted to the back burners of minds, only to be remembered a day before the tax return deadline.
Basically, I am not thinking about the stuff which sustains all life unless I’m trying to swallow an Advil for one of my headaches.
Now that we have some context, let’s get into the story:
It’s bed time, at least for someone who needs twelve hours of sleep. So, really, it’s about 5pm. The unfamiliar affliction has been ongoing for six hours now, and that’s just too long…
