Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1004     Reading:  119

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1111     BP:  106/57     Pulse:  70

Breakfast:  1130  & Meds What she ate:  2 oz pork sage sausage scrambled with one egg, heavily peppered 1 slice toasted oat bran 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
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; BP too low to justify this
metformin	any dose with meal	not administered because I thought her blood glucose would hold its own
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	not administered in order to avoid reactions with any possible medications that might be administered by the urgent care clinic
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	not administered in order to avoid reactions with any possible medications that might be administered by the urgent care clinic
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	not administered in order to avoid reactions with any possible medications that might be administered by the urgent care clinic
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	not administered in order to avoid reactions with any possible medications that might be administered by the urgent care clinic

    This was the morning I noticed the pinkish tinge of her urine. While she was eating breakfast, I was calling her PCP in Mesa and being instructed to take her to an urgent care clinic. I was aware that we were probably dealing with a urinary tract infection and that she would probably be administered, at the very least, antibiotics. Thus, I held off all her supplements, except the cranberry juice, so there would be no possibility of reactions.

Miscellaneous Midday Stat

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1551     Reading:  134

    I took this at the urgent care center, because I was concerned, since we still hadn't been seen and had no idea when we would be seen, that her blood sugar might be dropping. Obviously, it wasn't, but, since I couldn't guarantee when we'd be seen and out of there, thus, when she would eat, again, I gave her 3 wintergreen Altoids. Good thing I did. We didn't leave the clinic until just after 1700.

No Dinner Stats
    When we were finally released from the clinic, Mom was ravenous and I was hungry. We decided to stop on the way home for Carl's Jr. Six Dollar Guacamole Bacon Burgers, one small order of onion rings and one small order of fries, both of which we split. The only medication she received, that evening, was her glipizide, which had to be administered with her meal, and her first dose of Cipro XR. No stats were taken that evening. I couldn't see any reason to, since that stats weren't going to make any difference in what she ate or what medication I gave her. We ate dinner about 1800. For the three days she'll be on Cipro XR, she won't be receiving her evening dose of iron. That's fine. This is not the power dose that she'll be missing. Cipro XR should not be administered within 6 hours, either way, of iron supplements.
    I did, though, give her 2 oz aloe vera juice, in the hopes that it would perform a little sensitivity training on her cells.