Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1142     Reading:  102

Blood Pressure:     Time:  11:48     BP:  125/58     Pulse:  61

Breakfast:  1215  & 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
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	with or after meal	standard once a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Both of us have been punk today, and we both just went with it. I woke up early, early in the morning, went back to bed at 0630 and didn't reawaken until I heard Mom awaken. By that time, I was beginning to suffer the effects of what is, apparently, a mild cold. Mom simply wanted to have an "easy" day. I was up for that, since I needed to follow up phone calls and, as the day has progressed, I've felt progressively worse. Lunch, again, was popcorn and V-8 juice and cinnamon, with Iron and vitamin C but without stats.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1815     Reading:  145

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1826     BP:  116/60     Pulse:  70

Dinner:  1900  & Meds What she ate:  1/6th of a Costco chicken pot pie a large dinner salad, all vegetables approx 8 oz 4% milk fat small curd cottage cheese
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

    Actually, the cottage cheese was eaten before dinner, while I was struggling to awaken from yet another nap that we both took, today, me having taken ibuprofen to quell a fever I developed early this afternoon. My mother was ravenous. I could barely eat. I'm hoping that, tomorrow, we'll finally have a somewhat more active day, although, truthfully, I'm feeling pretty low, physically, this evening. Mom, though, is full of energy, again, finally, which is good. Perhaps she'll be up for awhile. That would be good.