Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1207     Reading:  126

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1239     BP:  102/59     Pulse:  76

Breakfast:  1300  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 1 4 oz slice sugar cured ham steak 1 slice toasted oat bran bread with 1 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/4 tsp cinnamon on bread 6 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	1/2 1000 mg tab with Niferex-150	helps the body metabolize iron
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin
Protonix/40 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast med
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
aspirin/81 mg	1 tab with breakfast	standard breakfast med - given for anti-coagulant properties
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties; among other reasons; appears to be of benefit to type 2 diabetics, as well, in its role as a smooth muscled organ protectant, particularly the pancreas, which produces insulin

    Although Mom insisted that she wasn't hungry when she finally awoke, this morning, she finished her breakfast before I finished mine, which is not only unusual, but hard for her to do, since she's a leisurely eater and I tend to eat and go on a chore that's becoming critical.
    I'm pleased with her blood glucose. She's exhibiting a natural dawn phenonmenon, now that she's off metformin, but it's not so high that it makes me nervous.
    Her blood pressure is another matter. No more lisinopril, not even 1.25 mg, unless her systolic is above 130 and her diastolic is at least 60. Athough her blood pressure is not unhealthily low for her, this morning, her systolic is close to that and, now, I'm convinced it is not anemia. She's exceptionally ruddy and looking very healthy, so much so that I'd be surprised if her hemoglobin reading this week isn't in the normal range, or very close to it.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1818     Reading:  79

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1825     BP:  103/54     Pulse:  67

Dinner:  1900  & Meds What she ate:  Yet again, an amazing and hearty Cobb Salad, this time including, among several luscious vegetables, both honey cured ham steak and lean pastrami, green olives and boiled egg.
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin
36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tabs with meal	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
calcium-vitamin D/500-200 mg	with meal	believed to be an osteoporosis preventative
1/4 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	after breakfast	standard after breakfast supplement

    She will be drinking the cranberry juice with water later tonight, so I included it in the meal. Obviously, she had no lunch today. She hasn't been up much and slept this afternoon, as well, so I figured two meals is fine. As well, her BP was obviously much too fine for lisinopril. Sleeping and lounging all day and eating only two thirds of what one usually eats tend to do that to a woman. She's in a very good mood, looks good, we got her hair done and her nails will be done before she goes to bed. Tomorrow to Mesa, really, fully rested and ready for adventure, or something like it.