Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0958     Reading:  94

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1105     BP:  108/43     Pulse:  68

Breakfast:  1115  & Meds What she ate: 1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut, lean bacon 1 toasted slice potato bread 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 breakfast and 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 breakfast med
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	almost didn't give it to her because pressure was low; will check blood pressure at lunch to see how she's doing
Detrol/2 mg	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med
metformin/637.5 mg	3/4 of 850 mg tab with meal	standard dose, because of orange juice, when her BG is in the 90's
Iron Protein Succinylate/18mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner med
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

    Obviously, today's CBC won't be fasting. I'll be doing her hair, shortly. That will allow her breakfast to settle for a couple of hours before her blood is drawn. She was very hard to get up but I didn't give up, today. Her color looks good but, in the bathroom light, I wondered if I was seeing red over white, rather than red over peach. I guess the blood draw will tell us.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1458     Reading:  86

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1500     BP:  102/72     Pulse:  71

Lunch:  1510  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/ 4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices potato bread approx. 3 oz MCS's bread and butter pickles 12 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal	considered bread and slightly sweet pickles
Iron Protein Succinylate/18mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner med

    We got out, for her blood draw, and were rewarded with yet another bowel accident. Nothing abnormal...just her body letting her know she hasn't been moving enough so it's just going to go ahead and do what it has to do. As a result, she stayed in the car while I quickly got the three items we needed at the grocery.     If she wants to take a nap, which she probably will, shortly, I'll let her, but I'll keep her from sleeping all afternoon and into the evening. I told her on the way home from the grocery that, little by little, we need to get her out, again. Today it was in the wheelchair. Probably tomorrow, too, although this evening I think we'll practice with the walker, and keep doing that on a daily basis until she's comfortable moving around away from home. Tomorrow we have an excuse to get out, to get the results of her blood draw, and a few supplies to pick up at Costco. We need to get in touch with a physical therapist, too. She is not excited about the ambulation and strength training...she's expecting it to be "hard". Somehow, I think, though, it'll actually make things easier for her, in the long run. I don't think she realizes how much energy she could generate within herself, if she began moving. I'm hohping we both have a few pleasant surprises in store.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2014     Reading:  88

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2036     BP:  119/60     Pulse:  87

Dinner:  2110  & Meds What she ate:  Her choice: Approx. 2 cups Kraft Original Mac & Cheese with extra cheese, hamburger and sauteed onions, green peppers and celery 12 oz diet root beer.
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glipizide/10 mg	1 tab 1/2 hour before meal	standard breakfast and dinner med
metformin/637.5 mg	3/4 of an 850 mg tab with meal	From certain cues, I expect her to eat something later, probably something sweet, so I'm covering her with this dose
Iron Protein Succinylate/18mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner fare while she's anemic
Detrol/2mg	1 tab with meal	standard breakfast and dinner fare while we're trying, again, to see if this will work on her

    No lisinopril tonight. I don't want her blood pressure to go any lower, tonight, than it will from simply resting.
    Ah, I was right. She just mentioned that she thinks she'd "kind of like something sweet, like a cup of cocoa or something." So, I'm making her a cup of Chocolate mint cocoa. Depending on how much she drinks from the cup, I may give her yet another 212.5 mg metformin while she's drinking the cocoa. I'll mention this here, if I do.