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Post-Pandemic539The vehicular traffic on our road is usually fairly light, and bicycle traffic is almost non-existent, so it worried me that I wouldn%u2019t be seen by the few drivers who were used to an empty road. Which led me to order a pair of lights, one red, one white, which had a flashing strobe setting. I%u2019d seen them on other bikes around town, and they were very easy to notice. I also ordered a softer seat for my elderly butt.I was very faithful at eating less, mainly because I knew I wasn%u2019t going to be on a permanent diet. But I did miss tossing back a small handful of mixed nuts or eating a few blue-corn chips occasionally. I was also faithful about riding each day. So I was quite pleased when I weighed myself after the first week, and saw I%u2019d lost 2 pounds.%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022Just as I started my second week of diet and exercise, everything fell apart. Over the next several days, I usually had a headache and had a great difficulty sleeping. When I did sleep, I was often tense and had strange repeating dreams. On three occasions I awoke in the middle of the night soaking wet from sweat. I also had bouts of chills during the day on two occasions.The headaches were usually mild. When I%u2019d had a similar one in the past, I would have gone to bed and it would have cleared by morning. But these lasted through the night, likely because of the tension. The result was a lack of sleep, which left me extremely tired and weak during the day. Sometimes I got up in the middle of the night to take some Tylenol and a hot shower, both of which usually helped with both headaches and tension. But, this time, not completely%u2014sometimes not at all. Because I was worn out from not sleeping, it was tiring to just stand in the shower. One time when I left the bathroom I was so disoriented I ran into a wall, then went into the wrong bedroom. I felt a bit dizzy for most of the next day.I hadn%u2019t been remembering my dreams recently, but now I did. In the first one, I was going through a long document, making specific changes. I couldn%u2019t recall what the document said, nor what changes I was making. It seemed like I must have been working on