5.7 to 5.9 mmol/l is 122 - 126mg/dl.
On keto I’m always under 100mg/dl, fasting, morning blood glucose. Like today, being a Saturday, it is 5.5mmol/l (just under 100). Blood ketones just readable at 0.1mmol/l. It does point at workload stress. I enjoy the work. there’s just a bit too much to do. And like in any company machine, people see me get work done, the reward is more work. hahahaha.
I’ll be looking forward to getting back to my vegan lifestyle next week, when this challenge ends.
But, for today, here’s what I treated myself to for breakfast:
10 am Black coffee with cream (usual supplements). From favourite suburban cafe. I’m staying in the city this weekend.
1pm breakfast = 4 x pastured eggs as a full pan omelette base, cooked in bacon fat. In the egg scramble was pink Himalayan salt and seaweed. 4 slices of Provelone cheese. Spanish sardines in EVOO (they are the best sardines I have ever tasted). 6 x New Zealand green lip mussels pickled in vinegar (= short chain fatty acids) and brine. Italian sparkling mineral water heavy in magnesium.
Little brother’s and mum’s and sister-in-law’s combined birthday today (yep, all have the same birthday; birthdates differ). Going out to an Italian restaurant tonight. I’ll have to check the menu now and make my choices.
As for ol’ snotty nosed Fangsy, I can relate. I tried some local farmer beef pastrami last week and I’m not sure what started aching, it was high abdominal; maybe - stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, or transverse colon (less likely). It was a proper gut ache.
Could have been laryngo-spasm. If it was truly an anaphylaxis, it would have gotten worse as the initial histamine release recruits more inflammation and everything swells. But with the instant reaction it was more reflexic, like a burn. The tissues at the opening of the wind pipe close up like a clam. It can happen sometimes if you stick something down the back of a throat, like an endotracheal tube (for an anaesthetic). A spray of local anaesthetic usually fixes and relaxes it. But, if it is a throat swelling anaphylaxis, like a bee sting reaction, then you got to cut over the wind pipe just below the voice box and ram a Bic pen into the trachea to open the airway (a temporary tracheostomy). Make sure to take the nib and the ink tube out of the Bic pen hollow handle as you just want the tube, a steel straw would work, any tube about little finger in diameter, and it works better if you sharpen the end, but you have to place it more carefully than a standard one. Oh, and don’t let it go, as it can slip inside and disappear down the wind pipe. Reminds me of the time we recovered a friend’s drowned pet dog from their pool, that time we cut a piece of garden hose pipe and tubed the airway for resuscitation.
