Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1041     Reading:  125

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1106     BP:  144/57     Pulse:  66

Breakfast:  1130  & 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
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

    Breakfast went well, as well as it could. I continue to fight this damned cold, so I spend as much time as possible in bed or medicating myself and feeling crummy. This is why Mom arose late this morning. I let her.
    She seemed to need the lisinopril, this morning. I'm not sure why.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1807     Reading:  172     Time:  1940     Reading:  278

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1951     BP:  106/53     Pulse:  68

Dinner:  2025  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb salad, this time with pastrami, peppered turkey, one deviled egg, Vermont sharp cheddar and green olives, among other vegetables, with Doritos Nachos as croutons and home made buttermilk Ranch dressing.
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

    Sometime before I awoke from a nap at a little before 1800, Mom had arisen, been up "for awhile", which could mean a couple of hours, hungered and looked around and found a jar of raspberry preserves, some bread and butter. I noticed the detritous, especially the fact that the raspberry preserves were in the refrigerator, which is not where we normally keep them. When I saw the evidence I took her blood glucose for the first time this evening, even though she, not surprisingly, wasn't hungry. After the first reading above I immediately gave her the aloe vera gel and a glass of V-8 juice with cinnamon. However, she had apparently eaten enough preserves and bread to sugar a good sized horse; that's what the preserves jar told me, anyway. That's why I took her blood sugar again when she finally got hungry, again, around 2000.
    I'm sure the fact that we haven't moved, much, in the last few days, hasn't helped her blood sugar and blood pressure situation. I insisted on some walkering this morning, since we hadn't done therapy exercises since Tuesday, but neither of us was into it. We kind of slogged up and down the driveway (I certainly didn't want to go anywhere, considering how I felt, and she was agreeable) and I was pleased when, after about 4 laps, she wanted to quit. I hadn't wanted to start.
    So, we had a mediocre day, and it showed in the stats.