Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0629     Reading:  138

Blood Pressure:     Time:  0713     BP:  127/66     Pulse:  63

Breakfast:  ?  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 1 4 oz slice honey cured ham steak 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

    This is the day we went to Mesa for her doctor's appointment. although no further stats were taken, medicines were given, so I am going to post approximately what she had for lunch and dinner, and what medications I gave her.

Lunch

Lunch:  12:45  & Meds What she ate:  1 3.5 oz bag of microwave popcorn 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
18 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	2 18 mg tab 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

    I, frankly, forgot to take stats during lunch. We had planned to go out for lunch, but Mom decided she wasn't that hungry. Until a half hour after she finished the popcorn. Then, she decided she wanted a full lunch, too late. We were due at her doctor's office in half an hour.     After the doctor's appointment I picked up a bag of Cheetos, one of her favorite chips, for her to snack on, since it was going to be at least 3 hours until dinner, if not longer. She ate the entire bag.

Dinner

Dinner:  ?  & Meds What she ate:  approx 8 oz of barbequed boneless beef ribs and chicken leg meat approx 6 oz potato salad approx 4 oz baked beans approx 1/10th of a strawberry-rhubarb pie with approx 6 oz Cool Whip
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
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

    I purposely did not take stats...I didn't want to know. I wanted her to enjoy dinner with friends and I wanted to enjoy her experience of it. She ate heartily, as you can see. She'd done quite a bit of walkering, that day, at the doctor's office, Costco and our friend's house. And, she was feeling great, since the doctor was so very pleased with her at her appointment. Our friends were thrilled to see her. It was a day to go without stats and just enjoy life and its goodness.