Today's Stats

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1142     Reading:  107

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1253     BP:  152/66     Pulse:  59

Breakfast:  1310  & 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/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	almost didn't give it to her because pressure was low; will check blood pressure at lunch to see how she's doing
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

    Once again, I flipped a mental coin over which dose of lisinopril to give her and decided on the 2.5 mg dose, assuming that I'll probably give her the other 2.5 mg at dinner. Her blood glucose looks good but I'm still not convinced that she's back to normal, although her color looks much better, today, than it did earlier in the week.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1933     Reading:  70

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1959     BP:  133/58     Pulse:  61

Dinner:  2007  & Meds What she ate:  approx 12 oz Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie Soup "beefed" up with half a chicken breast, approx 1/4 of frozen peas, 1.5 diced green onions and 1 tsp my own hoisin sauce approx 8 oz Baskin Robbins French Vanilla ice cream with approx 3/8's cup of the raspberry sauce I made on Sunday
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
glipizide/10 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast and dinner pre-med
metformin/1000 mg	1 a 1000 mg tab with meal	beefed this up because she wanted ice cream
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 tab with meal	decided to get her back on the schedule of this dose twice a day, morning and evening, since it looks as though her blood pressure, her systolic, anyway, can take it

Conspicuously Absent Meds & Supplements
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tabs 1 hour before meal	her lips still have that maroon lip liner effect, so I decided not to administer this
vitamin C/500 mg	with iron supplement	tossed this with the iron

    Again, she didn't have lunch, she wanted to take a nap, instead, and, since I was having a bad day, I let her. I insisted, though, before she nap, that she drink 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp cinnamon, so her blood sugar wouldn't drop too low (or climb too high, thus the cinnamon). This was about 1630. I awoke her at 1930, knowing that she needed to eat. This is when she told me she'd "dreamed about ice cream" and wanted some, but supposed that we didn't have any. Actually, we do, from Sunday, so I upped her dose of metformin. By the time dinner was over, which I had a hard time getting her to finish (I finally ordered her to finish it and stood over her, knowing that she simply hadn't had enough food, today), she announced she didn't want the ice cream. I told her she didn't have a choice, I'd given her enough metformin to drop a bull's blood sugar and she needed to eat something to counteract it, since I couldn't pull it back out of her system. She agreed. Once the ice cream with raspberry sauce was before her, she ate it with gusto.