Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0940     Reading:  108

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1048     BP:  131/66     Pulse:  76

Breakfast:  1100  & 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	looks like I might be giving this to her pretty regularly, now; which, I think, is a good sign, since her BP is affected negatively by her anemia and her BP returning to a state where it can handle lisinopril is an indication that she is returning to hemoglobin health
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
metformin	with meal	decided to try her on only glipizide, today, to see how she does, especially since she decided she didn't want a raspberry-um-thing, this morning, but just one piece of toast

    As I headed toward her bedroom at 0900, this morning, I was caught by a business call directly relating to the business we were planning on doing, today, and didn't head back down the hall until 40 minutes later. It's okay, though. We can put the business off for another day.
    Since, for reasons I'll discuss in my main journal, today is going to be a slow day, I'm going to try her on just glipizide, three doses of 10 mg, today, and see how that works. I don't have the aloe vera, yet, and probably won't get that until tomorrow, but this will help me determine how much supplementation she actually needs.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1551     Reading:  100

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1612     BP:  135/68     Pulse:  58

Lunch:  1615  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/ 4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices oat bran bread approx. 2/4 cup small curd 4% cottage cheese 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
acetaminophen/250 mg	1/2 a 500 mg tab with meal	we walkered a very little this afternoon before she ate; her knees continue to be very iffy and she didn't do as well as she did yesterday; so I gave her this to help
2 oz aloe vera juice	with meal	considering how well her blood sugar is performing, decided to try this; 2 oz is the dosage recommended on the bottle

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/250 mg	with meal	decided to see how her blood sugar performs with just the cinnamon and the aloe vera juice

    Considering how well her blood glucose tested without the metformin at breakfast, and considering that I was able to obtain aloe vera juice before lunch, I decided to try depending on only the cinnamon and the aloe vera juice and see how her blood glucose tests at dinner.
    I'll discuss this further at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net. Give me maybe an hour or so from the time of this posting to get over there, write and publish.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2100     Reading:  158

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2119     BP:  167/78     Pulse:  56

Dinner:  2140  & Meds What she ate:  I made what I normally call "Quick Beef Stroganoff" but what my mother, who is sitting beside me at the dinner table as I write and reading The Joy of Cooking for pleasure has informed me is actually a cross between Beef Stroganoff and Sauerbrauten, so, I guess it's actually Quick Beef Strogansauer. Essentially, what she had was: approx 6 oz beef rib eye steak approx 1/4 cup chopped celery approx 1/4 cup chopped green and gold bell pepper approx 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion a little less than 1/8 cup tarragon vinegar a dash of sweet basil a dash of Old Bay Seasoning approx 1 Tbl sour cream approx 1/2 cup brown gravy (from a powdered mix) approx 3 oz fusilli
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/5 mg	1 tab with meal	her BP was pretty high, for her; could be because of the cold, but I thought it might be wise to give her a 5 mg dose of lisinopril, even though she had 2.5 mg earlier today; she used to be on 10 mg twice a day, which was probably unnecessary, so I don't feel at all as though I'm overdosing her, now
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	gave this to her in the interest of a little more anticoagulation, in case her BP is a result of needing this property
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	gave her this for its antibiotic properties, since I don't have any standard antibiotics in the house, at the moment
acetaminophen/500 mg	1 tab with meal	I think she was sweating out the end of a low grade fever when she awoke from her nap, she has some congestion, as well, and her knees are still "iffy", so, I administered a full extra strength dose

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/250 mg	1/4 a 1000 mg tab with meal	decided not to reintroduce this tonight, even though her blood glucose is high, because I'm planning on starting a new regimen tomorrow that should take care of this type of spike

    Once again, I'm going to discuss these stats over at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net, so meet me over there in a little while.