Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1031     Reading:  115

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1107     BP:  139/64     Pulse:  61

Breakfast:  1130  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 3 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

    So, even after the burger last night, and the fries and onion rings, everything seems to be in order. She sure looks good, and her energy holds out (relatively {to the universe} speaking, that is). She'll be doing a fair amount of walkering before lunch, so we'll see how things shake out.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1542     Reading:  90

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1548     BP:  111/56     Pulse:  65

Lunch:  1600  & Meds What she ate:  Approx 8 oz Marie Callendar's Beef Pot Roast Soup with added chopped green onion and beef (jerky) Approx 4 oz (that's all we had, so I know, now, she's been "sneaking" it, which is excellent, considering her blood glucose readings) small curd 4% milkfat cottage cheese, heavily peppered 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
36 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

    You'll notice, as of a few days ago, I've put her back on 36 mg Iron Protein Succinylate at lunch. I think she could use it, up here.
    So, everything looks excellent, doesn't it?!? She got some walkering in before lunch, about which I'll talk over at =>Moving =>Mom later, because it bears noting.
    Splendid stats. Absolutely no complaints. I did think to ask her last night, and again this morning, if she was going hungry throughout the day.
    "No," she said, matter-of-factly. "If I do, I just go to the refrigerator."
    So, I'm thinking, she's eating a fair amount off schedule and her blood glucose is still performing very nicely. This is excellent news. Excellent.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1955     Reading:  92

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2003     BP:  142/66     Pulse:  60

Dinner:  2030  & Meds What she ate:  Approx 8 oz. grilled rib eye steak with probably 3 Tbl A-1 Steak Sauce (original flavor) Dinner salad with herb greens, carrots, Bermuda onion, cabbage, green olives with about 2 Tbl Home made ranch dressing A very small russet potato, baked, with about 2 Tbl margarine, 2 Tbl sour cream, lightly salted, heavily peppered
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
lisinopril/1.25 mg	1/4 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
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

    This is amazing...a near perfect day without metformin and without painful calculation regarding what she should and could eat. I'm very curious to see what her blood glucose will be tomorrow. I'm wondering if the aloe vera gel works cumulatively. I read, someplace, that the rather poor studies upon which the determination that aloe vera gel helps boost the body's sensitivity to insulin also insinuated that aloe vera gel doesn't "work" immediately, but over time, as the body incorporates it every day. Maybe this is true.
    I was surprised by her blood pressure, but considered it an opportunity to administer lisinopril twice today. I guess, in a couple of days, I'll either be able to connect it up to some other body happenings; or, maybe I won't, maybe these raised systolics will go without explanation.