Today's Stats, and Something New:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1032     Reading:  79

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1125     BP:  111/71     Pulse:  76

Breakfast:  1135  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 1 slice toasted potato bread with 1 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/4 tsp cinnamon on bread 8 oz orange juice diluted w/8 oz water
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast and pre-dinner med
Albuterol/2.0+IPRAO/.5	nebulized during meal preparation	standard breakfast, sometimes dinner med
Protonix/40 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast med
Detrol/2 mg	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med
metformin/500 mg	3/4 of 850 mg tab with meal	currently experimental standard dosage
Iron Protein Succinylate/18mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner med
Acetaminophen500 mg	1 tab with meal	gave it to her knowing we'd be putting in some walker time, today, and didn't want her legs to hurt ahead of time, thus making it easy for her to talk herself out of exercise, today.
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
vitamin C 1000 mg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid 400 mcg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	standard breakfast supplement
1/4 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	after breakfast	standard after breakfast supplement

Meds & Supplements Conspicuously Absent
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	decide to wait until later in the day, just to see how well her blood pressure holds its own on what I hope will be a fairly active, alert day
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	standard breakfast supplement; temporarily deleted to due physician request regarding concern about it interacting with the iron and some of her other meds

    The new feature is the table immediately above listing Conspicuously Absent meds and supplements and the reason. This table is for medications and supplements that I expect to rejoin Mom's medication schedule at some time.
    I'm expecting us to prepare for our trip to Costco shortly. Mom's enthusiasm is sardonically reserved but not adverse to the trip. "It'll probably do me good to get out," she admits.
    It probably will.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1543     Reading:  132

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1554     BP:  111/51     Pulse:  68

Lunch:  1500 & 1545  & Meds What she ate:  samples at Costco:  approx. an oz. each of ground beef, chicken and polish sausage; 3 oz each Naked Juice orange juice and some sort of low carb chocolate shake product; 1 oz hamburger bun; 2 oz salted pretzel; 1/2 oz smoked salmon; 1 Bing cherry Lunch at home:  6 oz small curd 4% cottage cheese; 12 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/500 mg	1/4 a 1000 mg tab at Costco and 1/4 a half hour or so later at home with meal	split the dose to cover the samples at Costco before they ran amok in her bloodstream
Iron Protein Succinylate/18 mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner med

    Lunch was a bit of a different matter, today. I managed to get her to Costco. I remember posting, somewhere, yesterday, that she walked about 3/8's of a mile. Make that probably 3/10's of a mile. I don't know what I was thinking. Today, walking into Costco all the way to the back of the store, then out, she covered about 4/10's of a mile. She didn't make it around the store. It became apparent, after making it back to the section where the paper underwear is sold and noticing a bench for waiting on prescriptions, that she wasn't going to walker further. I had only a few items to pick up, so I let her sit, gathered samples for her, then returned within a half hour. Around 1500 she ate her samples, took 250 mg metformin, then we walked out of Costco. At home she had her usual lunch with the other 250 mg metformin. I figure the "132" blood sugar reading was probably because the metformin I gave her at Costco hadn't quite kicked in. By dinner time, which will probably be between 2000 and 2100 this evening, she'll have kicked back to normal, I expect.

Meds & Supplements Conspicuously absent
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	still haven't given this med to her, today. BP seems too low to give it to her at lunch. I'll wait and see how her BP is before dinner.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1942     Reading:  92

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1949     BP:  142/69     Pulse:  86

Dinner:  2010  & Meds What she ate:  Chicken/Cheese Enchilada containing: approx. 5 oz chicken; a smear of refried beans (it's a Costco Enchilada so "smears" of ingredients are to be expected; it's one of Mom's favorites, though); probably 1/2 cup mild cheddar cheese; about 3/8's cup enchilada sauce; about 1/4 cup fresh salsa; about 1/4 cup sour cream; 1.5 green onions, chopped; half a large masa tortilla of this, she ate all the chicken, about 3/4's of the tortilla, cheese, onions, sour cream, enchilada sauce and salsa. She picked out the black olives; not her favorites & 2.5 large radishes
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard breakfast and dinner med
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal
Iron Protein Succinylate/18 mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner fare while she's anemic
Detrol/2 mg	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast and dinner fare while we're trying, again, to see if this will work on her
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 a 5 mg tab with meal	Her blood pressure seem to warrant giving her this, tonight

    The reason her blood pressure was up, tonight, is that I allowed her to smoke for a couple of hours before dinner, and she did. Although she tired easily on her outing, today, her nap, after lunch, lasted only 1.5 hours and she claimed she didn't sleep, although I passed her bedroom a few times and she was snoring away with The Little Girl, one of our cats. It's a good sign, though, that she thinks she didn't sleep; that she believes that for the entire nap she was working things out in her mind. When she awoke she was absorbed with "finding out about Jean's, the family, see what they're doing, now". More on this in The Mom & Me Journals dot Net. For now, the important aspect of this afternoon is that a little activity here and there, every day, is working to energize her when she's not moving much. This always happens when her activity level increases. She becomes more animated, even while sitting. Good.