Recently it snowed here. This area shuts down when it snows. The road is closed. It's nice because suddenly you're on vacation.
When I got up yesterday morning the Billingsley drama had begun. Where was Mrs. Billingsley? She was sitting on a chair in the kitchen and she was having trouble going back to her chair in the living room. Well, she was going to have to figure that out because I couldn't call 911 since the road was closed. Eventually she managed to go back to the living room, but I was annoyed because the chaos took about half an hour to sort out, all before coffee.
"Why were you in the kitchen?" I asked. "I was trying to get outside," she answered. Outside is a three inch sheet of ice and when she fell I would be the only one that could possibly rescue her, which I probably couldn't do. "Haven't I asked you not to go outside?" I replied as sternly as I could. "I thought you were outside," she said. "What made you think I was outside?" "I saw you outside through the window. You were walking in the snow. You were wearing your green and navy blue dress." "OK. I don't have a green and blue dress. Also, I haven't been outside." "I saw you! I saw you while I was looking out the window." For some crazy reason, this alarmed me a little. I have suspected I have an evil twin, but no one ever sees her.
In my mind I was fastening child proof gates and taking doorknobs off doors. Put rails on the bed? I wondered. Nursing home?
Why was she seeing such things? I knew of only one reason. She was just plain eating too many carbs. She doesn't operate well on straight glucose. I would have to double down on the ketogenic diet. I thought that her imaginary people only showed up at night or after eating a few pieces of pie. Therefore it didn't seem necessary to go crazy with carb counting.
I gave her some MCT oil. A tablespoon of MCT oil does wonders for elevating ketones quickly. So do exogenous ketones. And so, Mrs. Billingsley is on a stricter diet and gathering her forces.
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