At work.
Got bit by a venomous spider last week. Not a red back spider. Not a funnel web, nor a bird eating spider. Probably not a Huntsman, Wolf nor Daddy Longlegs spider, either. They all sound like 1970’s rock band names. It has left a nasty red welt on my right arm with a red streak running up the lymphatics path into my armpit. Went to the doctor. He prescribed antibiotics. We can both see it is not an infection and that the redness is a hypersensitivity reaction. We have these spiders here, white tail spiders and/or recluse spiders, they crawl on you in the night (Tourism Australia is going to hate me). If your brush or squish them they bite. So some kind of night spider bit me. I can now shoot webs from my wrists. I had some bloods taken to see if the venom created any internal organ damage. I’m not going to take the antibiotics.
I have remained carnivore and the dairy cravings are subsiding. In this hot summer weather (41’C+) it is easy to not eat (as per @Bubby1), and black coffee is a nice slow sipper with ice blocks in it.
Mug of salted bone broth at 8 am
This morning I made 4 x rolled 2 egg omelettes fried in gee.
2 were meant for breakfast at lunch time and two for the 3 hour commute back to the spider infested countryside.
I only ate one so far and a cold beef rib (left over)
Last night I had 4 beef ribs served to me by my mum. I could only eat 3.
The filling for the omelette rolls was:
chopped cold beef
rasher of streaky bacon
two to three dessert spoonfuls of chicken liver pate
Drinking lots of water and taking magnesium citrate supplements and Vitamin B3 Nicotinamide supplements (to prevent skin cancer by supporting mitochondrial function and the production of NAD+ as part of the electron transport chain in highly active skin cells, but also used by some anti-ageing doctors as well)
Interestingly my fasting blood glucose today and yesterday was greater than 6.5mmol/l. My blood ketones, however, were 0.2 mmol/l. So the spider bite and maybe some work stress may be involved? That higher blood glucose is not switching off the nutritional ketosis. I’ll keep checking.
Revisit doctor appointment next week. (I requested a fasting insulin test as part of the tests)
Hope I can get a surf tomorrow.
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I washed the shells, let them dry on the counter then ground them into a fine powder with my mortar and pestle. I tried with different choppers, only NutriBullet could get them fine “enough,” but it was a lot easier with mortar+pestle.