Mom's Daily Tests & Meds: 2004 - 2006

Daily postings of Mom's in-home tests, administered medications, food eaten and the relationship among the three and her life.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Today's Stats:

Breakfast
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  1105
    Reading:  122
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1150
    BP:  146/79
    Pulse:  62

Breakfast:  1210  & 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 1.5 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

    I remember that we had bacon for breakfast this morning, instead of ham, surprisingly, even though we still have ham (lots of it). Other than that, I don't remember much about breakfast except that she ate well, and, I gave her lisinopril.

Dinner
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  2023
    Reading:  78
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  2030
    BP:  116/63
    Pulse:  69

Dinner:  2035  & Meds
What she ate:  1/6th of a Costco chicken pot pie.
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

    She did have a lunch of sorts. Midway between breakfast and dinner I gave her a 3.5 oz bag of microwave popcorn, V-8 juice and cinnamon, but no pills and no stats were taken. She ate heartily at dinner. We had an exercise session, today, which I haven't entered. As well, I had some groceries to pick up for our trip, and she got some walkering in early this evening before dinner.

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