Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1050     Reading:  119

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1123     BP:  131/63     Pulse:  66

Breakfast:  1130  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 1 slice honey 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
lisinopril/1.25 mg	1/4 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
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	standard after breakfast supplement

    I awoke late, as I went to bed late. Mom awoke about an hour after I did. I'm didn't worry about this. Nothing else to mention about breakfast, really. She ate well, her readings were good, I was able to administer lisinopril. That about says it all.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1814     Reading:  65

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1822     BP:  123/57     Pulse:  65

Dinner:  1830  & Meds What she ate:  7 oz sugar cured ham steak 2 whole eggs, deviled 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp cinnamon
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

    No lunch today. We both slept through it. We were both extremely punk, although I don't know why. A passing body mood, I guess. It is true, by the way, as Mom has said and I've repeated, that she could eat ham for every meal every day. When I suggested eating left overs, tonight, she requested ham and eggs. I figured, well, in that case, I'll devil the eggs. No lisinopril tonight; her diastolic was a little too low for it, and her systolic was just fine.