Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1320     Reading:  114

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1440     BP:  171/69     Pulse:  66

Breakfast:  1445  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 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
lisinopril/5 mg	1 tab with meal	the Cipro XR is continues to play tricks with her blood pressure, so I gave her the higher dose of this, today
metformin/500 mg	1/2 of 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dose; just to control the tricks the Cipro XR has been playing with it
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

    Well, obviously, we both went to bed late last night (rather, early this morning), thus we both slept in. Mom went to bed about 0130 this morning. I can't remember what we were doing, but, apparently, it kept her occupied. I gave her almost the full 12 hours, and, I'm glad I did. At some time between 0245 this morning when I went to bed and the time I awoke her, she vomited. Although she was surprised, when I awoke her, that she'd vomited, didn't have any memory of it, at the time it happened she was certainly aware of it because she had covered what she'd vomited into the garbage can with Kleenex. At any rate, I didn't discover it until I awoke her because, when I awoke at a little after 1100 and checked in on her, her blanket was spread over the area where she had missed the garbage can and gotten some of the spew on her bed; and, of course, there were the Kleenexes in the garbage can. By the time I awoke her, she had thrown the blanket back in her sleep and I could clearly see that she had vomited.
    I'm sure this is not anemic vomiting. Whether or not her hemoglobin has reached normal levels, I can tell from her color, her blood pressure (even in its goddamned-antibiotic disguise) and the fact that her feet aren't swelling that she is, at least, around 9. I'm also sure that this vomiting is a reaction to the antibiotic, as this is one of the "less serious" side effects (unless the vomiting is repeated and prodigious) listed for this medication on one of the websites on which I researched the medicine. I'm glad last night's dose was the last dose. It's possible that it may take another day or two for the stuff to leave her system, but, at least, we're on the road back to her body's definition of normality.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1910     Reading:  104

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1955     BP:  145/72     Pulse:  59

Dinner:  2000  & Meds What she ate:  half a gold bell pepper stuffed with a mixture of pork sage sausage, barley, chopped celery, chopped onion, chopped green olives, and a robust roasted garlic pesto with half an artichoke heart and freshly grated parmesan cheese on top
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast and dinner pre-med
metformin/500 mg	1/2 a 1000 mg tab with meal	standard dinner med

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tabs 1 hour before meal	because she had only two meals, today, there would not be a significant break between morning and evening iron and, to guard against her stomach becoming upset and relieving itself of its contents tonight, I decided against administering her second dose of iron, tonight
vitamin C/500 mg	with iron supplement	did not give her this since she didn't get her second dose of iron, today

    About an hour and a half after dinner, Mom also received a 225 mg dose of metformin, because I'd made an extraordinary sauce from fresh raspberries and I served it to her over ice cream. As I told a friend, may as well take advantage of the current need for metformin and allow Mom to embrace her taste for sugar while we can.