Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0940     Reading:  129

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1023     BP:  107/64     Pulse:  75

Breakfast:  1040  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 1 4 oz slice honey cured ham steak 2 slices toasted oat bran bread with 2 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/2 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
1/4 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	after breakfast	had this about an hour after breakfast while we did her therapy exercises

    Nothing terribly unusual about any of the stats or our breakfast routine. She was up and down and up, again, before we got around to bathing and breakfast preparations, because of the excitement over the tire vandalism that took place in our neighborhood last night. When she first appeared outside while I was talking to the policeman and the neighbor and the policeman was still taking the report, I explained what was going on then sent her back to bed, although it was an unwilling send off on her part, but I couldn't let her continue to stand outside curing in her urine, and I wasn't quite free to bathe her, yet. Then, after the police left and the neighbor returned, I had some phone calls to make to people who were expecting us in the Valley today.
    She was unusually hungry at breakfast and asked for two pieces of toast. I almost didn't give them to her, prefiguring what was probably going to happen to her blood sugar before lunch (and I was right), but decided, ahh, what the hell, this will be a good test. It was.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1604     Reading:  137

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1611     BP:  98/54     Pulse:  71

Lunch:  1615  & Meds What she ate:  approx 10 oz sauerkraut with chopped polish sausage 1 piece cracked whole wheat sourdough garlic olive parmesan cheese toast 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation

    Yep, that's right, I forgot her iron, thus, I forgot her vitamin C. Didn't remember them until about halfway through her meal and decided, damn, she looks so good, let's see what happens if I leave out the iron at lunch today.
    You can see that second piece of breakfast toast riding high on her blood glucose. When I mentioned that to her she said, "One piece of toast can do that?. Yep, one piece of toast. You might be surprised to know that she takes an active interest in both her BG and BP readings and always asks me, "How's that?" I always tell her. So, it wasn't uninformed surprise that she expressed, today.
    Although she was surprised by her BG, I was surprised by her BP. We had lunch after a vigorous exercise session and some walkering at Costco (the tow truck guy showed up about, oh, I guess a little after 1330, and when he showed, we had to go). The reason, in fact, why we had sauerkraut and polish sausage for lunch was because she wanted to have lunch at Costco but, knowing she wouldn't be able to resist the bun and expecting her BG to be rootin' and tootin', I suggested we go home and eat essentially the same thing, without the bun. Good idea. But, anyway, I'm not sure what the reason is, now for her curiously low blood pressure. Maybe this is what its supposed to be. She certainly wasn't dehydrated when I took it, although I was using the "new" guidelines, not the old. And, I still don't think she's anemic, or, if she is, she's borderline, rather than deep into it. Maybe her real normal blood pressure, of which I am totally unaware, when she's on very little medication (as she is now), or none, is supposed to run around in the nineties and low hundreds. Could be. The only real record of her BP to which I have access began shortly after she went on metformin. Now she's off that, and that was a biggie. I'm curious to see what her PCP has to say.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2021     Reading:  113

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2028     BP:  127/63     Pulse:  65

Dinner:  2030  & Meds What she ate:  An open faced, grilled tuna melt with approx 4 oz of that magnificent tuna mixture I concocted a couple of days ago, sprinkled with parmesan cheese, on 1 slice whole grain bread approx 5 oz frozen peas with chopped green pimento stuffed olives and feta dressing approx 8 oz Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie soup with added peppered turkey breast and chopped green pepper
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
lisinopril/1.25 mg	1/4 tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
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

    I'm not sure her blood pressure was high enough to handle the lisinopril, but I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning. I hope so.
    Otherwise, she ate a good dinner, enjoyed it, was in a good mood, and we had a relaxed, enjoyable evening.