So far so good, still. I think the potassium offers better relief by itself vs taking it with zinc. Read some other stuff on copper toxicity and turns out, they don't recommend taking a fistful of zinc to cancel out the copper and calling it good. The interactions in the body are more complicated than that and it's possible to make things worse (!!!). The best way to eliminate excess copper is through bile, so best to support the liver/gall bladder first and not bomb the body with zinc (even though it seems like it would solve the problem).

Supposedly vitamin C helps, but not vitamin D. Also calcium is bad for copper detox, oops.

I'm going to change up my vitamins a little - B complex, vitamin C, krill oil, half a zinc tablet in the morning. Magnesium, glucosamine chondroitin, TMG, half a zinc tablet at night. Potassium as needed.

None of these supplements are terribly expensive or exotic. Shoot, in a pinch I can buy most of them at Dollar General. Other changes to my habits are pretty minor and common sense. Eat more dark green veggies. Eat some blue corn chips. Eat almond butter instead of peanut butter. Go light on the dairy. Watch the caffeine & adult beverages.

I'm going to try to avoid otc painkillers as they are hard on the liver/kidneys. Since I mostly take them for headaches, if the potassium is helping I shouldn't need them anyway. I'll try more magnesium for cramps.

I'm still going to use the copper water bottle. The pipes in the apartment are copper - I doubt a few more hours in a copper bottle can make it much worse. I'll pour the water out and refill if it's been in there longer than 12 hours.

I'm sitting here feeling really ... normal. It's so bizarre. I should feel awful and I don't. I got decent sleep last night. Not amazing, but decent. It's like a revelation.

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Covid has spread in the house and all 9 have it. Spouse was counting on his fingers trying to figure out who the nine are. We still don't know for sure exactly who is in the house. We're thinking the eldest niece and her family (husband and two young kids) are not there - he does construction work and it's summer, so they're probably out on a job. But that begs the question who is in their place. Spouse says, "Academically, I hope one of them dies. Or at least sick enough to get intubated. Just to teach them a lesson. But it's my family, so I hope it's one of the useless people." I laughed. It's a miserable situation, what can you do but find the black humor? If they all sail through this infection like it's a cold, all their red hat propaganda will be vindicated. Spouse says in the last email they were still glad they haven't got the vaccine. Like, somebody needs to die. The toddler has to touch the stove and get burned to learn the lesson.

Spouse says he is most worried about the niece who got sick first, because if there is a bad outcome she will feel awful for having brought it in the house. I hope there aren't complications with her pregnancy. We don't know if the father of the baby is around in any capacity, but if he were decent she wouldn't be living in the house. She had plans for the future, she had a good job and was supporting herself, but when she got pregnant she abandoned all that and ended up back in the house. It's tough to see from a distance. A kneejerk "BABY RUIN LIFE" response is not helpful. Babies can also inspire someone to make extraordinary changes for the best life for their kid. But it has definitely switched on hard mode for her. I very much doubt that losing the baby from covid would be a net positive.

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Spouse is on two weeks of leave. It's "use it or lose it" time. If he does end up training in September there will be no chance to take it. So he's footloose and fancy free. Mostly this means we are going to see a lot of movies and probably go to the zoo and the other museums (assuming covid doesn't make things shut down, but I don't think they'll roll back measures unless things get really, really, really bad). It's probably our last shot to do all the big city things we want to do.