Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1212     Reading:  98

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1315     BP:  118/56     Pulse:  66

Breakfast:  1335  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered w/ 1/2 oz sharp cheddar cheese 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
Niferex-150 [150 mg elemental iron]	1 hour before breakfast	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab	with Niferex-150; helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast and pre-dinner med
Protonix/40 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast med
Albuterol/2.0+IPRAO/.5	nebulized during meal preparation	standard breakfast, sometimes dinner med
metformin/500 mg	1/2 of 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dose
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	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	decided to wait until later in the day, to wait for her BP to rise a bit
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
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	can function as an anticoagulant, thus I've nixed this medication, for the time being

    Again, another late day, my fault. I stayed up until 0445 this morning and didn't reawaken until 1130. She seems both lively and laid back...intent on watching, at the moment, To Kill a Mockingbird, a delight for me, too. I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie, and, frankly, I probably won't see it all the way through this time, either, since I'm in the middle of performing "liquid torture" on Mom and I must make the raspberries and blueberries into muffins, today, or we'll have missed our chance.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1723     Reading:  114

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1730     BP:  108/52     Pulse:  67

Lunch:  1731  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/ 4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices potato bread 2 1" chunks pineapple, 2 1" chunks cassava, 2 1" chunks cantaloupe, 2 strawberries, 8 grapes
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dose, for awhile

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	still holding off, today, hoping her BP comes up a bit later

    After seeming fairly alert this morning, she's taking it easy, now, and it reflects in her BP, although she's still up, watching Yankee Doodle Dandy. I mentioned to her that she seems a bit weak, and she agrees; although it could be that she's agreeing just to get me off her back.

Firebug Incident
    I'll explain later in The Mom & Me Journals dot Net, when I have a moment, but this is an extra set of sugar and pressure stats that I felt I needed to take:

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1941     Reading:  133

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1943     BP:  110/44     Pulse:  77

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2102     Reading:  128

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2108     BP:  132/58     Pulse:  59

Dinner:  2140  & Meds What she ate:  approx 10 oz chicken fricassee "soup", which was left over chicken fricassee with the chicken cut up 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tabs 1 hour before meal	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast and dinner pre-med
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal	standard lunch med
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	decided this was the best time to administer her lisinopril

    She didn't eat well, tonight, even though she loved the "surprise", she called it, of the chicken fricassee soup (I added a little Old Bay Seasoning to it). She's been low on energy and has seemed weak all day, and then there was the Firebug Incident, which I'll explain later. I hope it's just one of her "bad" days, although she felt, when I asked her, that it was a "good" day. She didn't take a nap. That, at least, was a plus, I guess.