Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose: Time:  1142 Reading:  106	Blood Pressure: Time:  1257 BP:  108/65 Pulse:  81
Temperature:  97.6

Breakfast:  1315  & 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 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
metformin/500 mg	1/2 of 1000 mg tab with meal	I decided to give her 500 mg, even though I usually give her 637.5 at breakfast, just to see how she'll do with a lower dose
Iron Protein Succinylate/18 mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	with meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner med administered 1 hour pre-meal
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
vitamin C/500 mg	with iron 1 hour pre-meal	standard 1 hour pre-meal 3xday
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

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
aspirin/81 mg	1 tab with breakfast	Has not been receiving this, per doctor's orders, since 6/18/04; he feels that, if she is bleeding internally intermittently, the aspirin, being a blood thinner, will increase the blood flow, and this is a higher risk to take, right now, than protecting her against strokes, including mini-strokes
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	didn't seem to need it, this morning, decided to see how the day shapes up BP wise
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
Detrol 2mg	with breakfast and dinner	finished the last of her last Rx; doctor said if it wasn't working, to stop it, so I am

    You'll notice the addition of "temperature" just below BP and BG. I decided to start taking it now and then, at least once a day, just to see what her "normal" is now. It's been bouncing around the last few days. I'll continue to record it for awhile, to see what turns up.
    Today was not intended to be a late rising day. In fact, at 0700 she was on her elbows, and looking alert but didn't want to get up. I intended to let her sleep until 0930, then, called MCS to go over some medical research I did this morning and ended up letting her sleep in until 1140. I don't think this is a problem, today. She seems to be doing much better than she was yesterday and I've already announced to her that I'm going to be keeping her up right into the evening. I expect that she'll probably have a very light "lunch" today, as we'll probably only be able to get in two meals, but that'll be okay...tonight, I've vowed, is finally going to be Chicken Fricassee night; we've got to use the chicken! I'll also be baking blueberry and raspberry muffins, this afternoon, so that will probably be when she has her lunch/snack.
    I've "warned" her that as of tomorrow, we're going to try to develop the habit of her experiencing a "normal" day: Up with breakfast at a "decent" hour, lunch in the middle of the sun's journey across the western hemisphere, dinner as it begins to set.
    I can't remember if I mentioned it yesterday, but I am trying to administer her iron 1 hour before/2 hours after eating. I'm hoping, with the Niferex-150, which has arrived and we'll be picking up this afternoon, this will actually be easy...as, having 150 mg Elemental Iron per dose, I'm expecting that she may only need one dose a day. We'll see, from her blood draw next week.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1734     Reading:  70

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1736     BP:  101/55     Pulse:  85

Lunch:  1745  & Meds What she ate:  8 oz small curd 4% cottage cheese 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/425 mg	1/2 a 850 mg tab with meal	considered bread and slightly sweet pickles
Iron Protein Succinylate/18 mg from 360 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 hours before meal	standard pre-meal med

    This was, indeed, one of her lighter lunches, eaten after some heavy-duty (for her) walkering, most of it at the second store we visited where she decided to cruise up and down the aisles, reminding herself of her love of shopping. I was surprised at how low her blood pressure was. I took it within 15 minutes of our arrival home, less than a half hour after the last, long leg of her walkering. I was afraid it might be a sign that she is, indeed, bleeding internally, especially provoked by lots of movement and, while this may or may not be the case, I was pleased to note her rather high blood pressure just previous to dinner, on which I report above.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2132     Reading:  85

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2136     BP:  160/76     Pulse:  69

Dinner:  2210  & Meds What she ate:  Chicken Fricassee, including a variety of vegetables and about 6 oz of chicken breast in a light, thin, flour and chicken stock based sauce with a bit of heavy cream for opacity; very peppery, the way she likes much of her food
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	administered 1.5 hours before meal	standard breakfast, lunch and dinner fare while she's anemic
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 5 mg tab with meal	once again, her blood pressure readings, today, seemed to indicate that she could handle two half doses of this

    She and I had a discussion, tonight, centering on the proposition that if one awakens at 1140, it is not out of the realm of possibility that one would eat dinner at a little after 2200. I was pleased with her appetite and her capitulation to the idea that one's day begins when it begins, and, thus, if it begins "late" it will end "late", which changes "late" to "on time".