So I'm getting better. My aches have somewhat subsided and my most recent round of fever/chills ended about 2 hours ago. Now I'm hungry. But everything smells bad and my appetite is somewhere under the sink with the dirty dishtowels, not in my stomach. I have been thinking of amazing food all day long, but the minute I taste something my tongue writhes a little bit and my innards cringe. I forced myself to have some freshly squeezed organe juice and some cantaloupe, along with a piping hot bowl of miso soup. (Let me make it clear that fresh oranges are on my top 3 of favorite foods.) And the orange juice tasted way too sweet, almost unbearable. Right now I'm imagining goat cheese and roasted red bell peppers on homemade pizzas....Hunger without appetite is pretty miserable.
This morning I got up and decided to make banana pancakes for my sister. The bananas smelled like the artificial banana flavoring that we created in chemistry last winter. We made "ketones" as a byproduct of some other experiment... it may have been to produce aspirin, I don't remember. Anyway, it was disgusting, and I hoped never to have to smell that again. But this morning, the on-the-ripe-side, organic bananas smelled absolutely plastic to me. Gross. My sister ate the pancakes with pleasure, but I found them revolting. Oh well, at least there's one person well fed and satisfied in this house.
I have this awful bitter taste in my mouth. I get the feeling that my body is acidic. After some research I found out it's caused by ketosis- when the body is in "starvation mode" and is out of glycogen, it releases ketone-bodies (AHA!) into the blood. So basically my fatty acids are being used up in beta-oxidation-I-don't-completely-understand-it. Anyway, I can't believe it. I knew there was something ketone-related about those bananas. But I had no idea that my body was making ketones and just... hmmm... everything is connected.
Great. Now HOW do I get rid of them? Probably by restocking my glycogen supply. Meh, I don't feel like eating though. Vicious cycle. The flu sucks... I want to be healthy again :(
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