My laptop first stopped charging and now is overheating and I am pretty sure it’s because of the way it’s being punished on a daily basis.

I increasingly started using my knees (and my feet) instead of my hands and on one occasion, tried to use my elbows to lift a suitcase.

So I just googled “how do you deal with extreme wear and tear on your hands”. This what I got first. It does not work for me, obviously. That was my first thought.

This – below – is what I found next, but that’s not working either. I try to limit the distance I need to cover as much as possible now because I simply can no longer do the 6 to 10 kilometers per day that I had been doing for so long. But I have to keep doing too much of this and it’s killing my hands. (Overnight cold does not exactly seem to help.) I am experiencing overall circulation problems now too and try to be on a flat surface with my legs stretched flat in front of me as many hours per day as I can.

Yes, sleeping on arms/hands does not help either.

Interesting info. Yes, water retention plays a role.

Yes, been eating bags of crisps a few times as convenient cheap “food” but it’s loaded with salt. Also, been eating chocolate-covered digestives as convenient cheap “food” as they both cost around 1 euro and can last me one or two days and I imagined that it would help with the overnight cold. (Until yesterday, still often close to zero and even now still quite cold overnight.)

Yes, left hand often numb after sleeping on arm.

NSAIDS? Yeah, been taking a lot of ibuprofen because tendons at top of thighs first became really achy too and that wakes me up. Then taking an ibuprofen allows me to fall asleep again. Is my ibuprofen use causing my hands to ache so badly? Interesting.

I had really achy hands in Florida too for a while. A physician explained to me that the body can decide to store fluid in joints and that this can cause them to hurt.

Yes, water intake. Lack of access to toilets.

Stress does not seem to help either.

The situation started to collapse after I lost my overnight spot. (If you say that to people, they tend to imagine that you’ve been kicked out of a “shelter” or “emergency accommodation” because of your aggressive behavior.)

Okay. I just took another ibuprofen but I am going to stop doing that.

My fingers are swollen (a little).

I’d been sweating like pig twice a day for days/weeks because of how I need to dress in hot weather combined with the exercise I need to do and I have recently started to go hot and cold, too.

If need be, I will just… do absolutely nothing for (more than) a few days… I really may have to.

My exhaustion is causing me to stop being angry enough to be able to keep driving myself forward. I now often just want to keel over and die, so to speak. Because the tank is empty.

People have no idea. This dumb Gemeente Amsterdam person I spoke with thinks that people can walk 10, 20 kilometers per day – with or without luggage – and keep going indefinitely. Such an idiot! She asked me could I make it across 7 kilometers in a short time. I said no. (I’d already done quite a few kilometers that day.) She thought it meant that I wasn’t in Amsterdam. She is a clueless fool who is being paid very well for being no more than a clueless fool. It boggles the mind, doesn’t it? (No. But it does make me angry and determined.)