Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1045     Reading:  95

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1145     BP:  144/58     Pulse:  60

Breakfast:  1205  & 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
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	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
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	decided her blood pressure could handle it, this morning, especially since she didn't get any yesterday
metformin/500 mg	1/2 of 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dose
Daily Senior Multivitamin	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
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

    I managed to get her up, bathed, dressed and breakfast in front of her, this morning, by just after noon using the temptation mentioned in The Mom & Me Journals dot Net today. There's more...we had another talk, this evening. I'll cover that later in the main journal.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1758     Reading:  69

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1805     BP:  132/55     Pulse:  57

Lunch:  1815  & Meds What she ate:  a ham and cheese sandwich with a healthy, 4 oz slice of ham and approx 1 oz of sharp cheddar cheese 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dose
acetaminophen/500 mg	1 tab with meal	her knees were bothering her a lot this evening

    Nothing unusual about this meal. Her blood sugar was a touch low, so, I think I might restart cutting back to 425 mg in the morning and see how that goes, again. If it goes well and I can get her moving (which I'm still working on), maybe we can get her cut back to a total of 1275 mg of metformin per day, unless it's a special day loaded with sugar, etc.

No-Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2129     Reading:  136

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2146     BP:  140/72     Pulse:  71

    No dinner, tonight. I couldn't tempt her with anything, but, she'd had a hard day, and with her blood sugar and blood pressure up, I figured she could stand a night without food, if she wasn't hungry.
    She got her 36 mg of iron protein succinylate, her 500 mg of vitamin C, but, although she probably could have handled 2.5 mg of lisinopril, I decided against it, just to see what her blood pressure would be like in the morning. It's usually pretty low in the a.m.