Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1012     Reading:  97

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1111     BP:  142/79     Pulse:  57

Breakfast:  1125  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 2 slices (her request) 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/5 mg	1 tab with meal	decided to give her the whole 5 mg because of her diastolic
metformin/425 mg	1/2 of 1000 mg tab with meal	decided to slowly cut back
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

    My only concern was her diastolic blood pressure; combined with her systolic, I decided to give her the entire 5 mg lisinopril. Other than that, her stats looked good, she was hungry enough to ask for two pieces of toast, she ate good and, and seemed to feel up for accompanying me on a visit to the grocery. Unfortunately, the rest of the day didn't go so well.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1617     Reading:  85

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1630     BP:  137/58     Pulse:  61

Lunch:  1635  & Meds What she ate:  sandwich w/ 4 oz tuna salad, 2 slices potato bread 3/4 cup small curd 4% cottage cheese, heavily peppered 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
metformin/425 mg	1/2 a 850 mg tab with meal	standard lunch dose

    We'd gone to the grocery and although it was difficult for her to walker, she did a fair amount before her knees couldn't take anymore. This, however, was the lunch she lost, details here.

Dinner
    There is a link to what happened to her lunch in the post below this one. She spent most of the afternoon vomiting it up, then, finally, when she was completely empty except for water between spews, she went to bed at 1930, exhausted. Not the best ending for what looked like a promising day.