Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1050     Reading:  122

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1219     BP:  112/56     Pulse:  61

Breakfast:  1245  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz sugar cured ham steak 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
metformin/425 mg	1/2 of 850 mg tab with meal	standard dose
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	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	decided to wait until later in the day

    That's right, it took 20 minutes for me to get her to put her hand out for her blood glucose test, and another almost 2 hours to get her fed. I can tell you, this won't be happening again, and I'll be telling you why over at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net, in a little bit.
    Other than this, I was pretty satisfied. This morning's blood glucose stats suggest to me that metformin may not be needed too much longer, but that the glipizide probably will. This doesn't bother me. Glipizide, so far, is not linked to anemia. Metformin is.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1717     Reading:  55

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1723     BP:  118/52     Pulse:  61

Lunch:  1730  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices potato bread, 1/2 oz pepper jack cheese 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
acetaminophen/250 mg	1/2 a 250 mg tab	her legs were a little shaky after walkering, today, and she complained of "stiffness", which, for her, means muscle pain

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin		based on her blood glucose reading, didn't need this, just like the day before yesterday
lisinopril 2.5 mg	1/2 a 5 mg pill	didn't like her diastolic enough to administer this

    These stats support what I suggest in "Today's Breakfast Stats", above. I think, tomorrow, I'll not give her the metformin for breakfast and see how her blood glucose performs at lunch. What I'm expecting is that it will be within normal range, neither too low, as it was today and day before yesterday, nor too high.
    This is getting very exciting!

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2133     Reading:  143

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2225     BP:  148/67     Pulse:  63

Dinner:  2210  & Meds What she ate:  approx 12 oz of a chicken enchilada mixture made from leftovers including chicken, part of a soft tortilla, generic chili, medium salsa (no sweeteners) green onions, black olives, refried beans, mild cheddar cheese, enchilada sauce, MPBIL's southwestern fire spice mix
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/425 mg	1/2 a 850 mg tab with meal	standard dinner med
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 a 5 mg tab with meal	decided, considering her BP, this was a good time to administer it
acetaminophen/250 mg	1/2 a 500 mg tab with meal	had a little continued stiffness in legs from walkering, today

    Although her glucose was a little high (although her PCP would not consider it so), I'm not discouraged. I'm not sure why it was. I'm still in the groove of gradually lowering her metformin.