Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1101     Reading:  126

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1203     BP:  149/68     Pulse:  67

Breakfast:  1215  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 2"x 2"x 1" raspberry-um-thing w/1/2 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	her blood pressure indicated she could handle this, today
metformin/225 mg	1/4 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
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

    Pretty normal breakfast, this morning. Although her blood glucose was a little high, I attributed this to the pizza and decided not to increase her metformin, although I didn't decrease it, either. More on new ideas to treat her diabetes at the immediately previous link at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1614     Reading:  113     Time:  1810     Reading:  140

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1812     BP:  130/57     Pulse:  64

Lunch:  1645  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/ 4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices potato bread 3/4 cup 4% small curd cottage cheese heavily peppered 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glucotrol/10 mg	1 tab 1/2 hour before meal	thought I'd give this a try today

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/250 mg	1/4 1000 mg tab with meal	decided to see how taking glipizide instead of metformin at lunch worked

    First, you'll notice that I forgot to take her blood pressure at lunch. So, I took it halfway between lunch and dinner, when I decided to do a between meal check on her blood glucose. As you can see, it appears as though the research I've read is reliable, any dosage of glipizide over 20 mg doesn't appear to make a difference. So, tomorrow, we'll (or I'll) make a quick trip to Costco and pick up some aloe vera juice. The recommended dose is 1 Tbl (15 grams) twice a day with her glipizide.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2014     Reading:  90

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2109     BP:  156/66     Pulse:  59

Dinner:  2110  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb Salad exactly like the one she had for dinner on July 11, 2004, with the addition of: 3 diced green olives fresh sweet basil leaves added to the greens 1 diced green onion
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
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	normally, she only gets one dose a day, but, because her blood pressure remained high, for her, today (I think I allowed her to smoke more than usual, which may have been the cause), I administered this twice, her dinner dose being the second dose

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin 250 mg	1/4 a 1000 mg tab with meal	I am, as you can see, cutting down on her metformin; because her blood glucose balanced itself out by dinner, I decided I could dispense with this medication, tonight, in the interest of seeing how 3 doses of glipizide worked on her by morning

    Tonight's discoveries and personal recollections, I think, deserve to be discussed at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net. The previous link will take you directly to that discussion, once it's posted, which will probably be within a half hour of the time this is published.