Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0818     Reading:  107

Blood Pressure:     Time:  0858     BP:  175/69     Pulse:  58

Breakfast:  0910  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz slice sugar cured ham 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 when used with glipizide
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/2.5 mg	1/2 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

    Her blood pressure is surprisingly high, this morning, so I increased her lisinopril. Otherwise, I'm pleased. After that sweet roll a couple of days ago, her blood glucose seems to have settled back into line. She arose early, on her own, this morning, which also pleased me. Hopefully, we'll get in three well spaced meals, today, and possibly some exercising.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1335     Reading:  117

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1357     BP:  156/72     Pulse:  70

Lunch:  1415  & Meds What she ate:  8 oz Marie Callendar's Yankee Pot Roast soup with approx 1 oz added meat (chopped beef jerky) and 1 chopped green onion 3 multigrain crackers with approx .25 oz Garden Vegetable cream cheese and 1 chopped olive per cracker 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
18 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	1 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
lisinopril/1.25 mg	1/4 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it

    Although everything else, including her appetite, looks good, I am alarmed about her blood pressure, so I gave her a low dose of lisinopril at lunch. I hope this isn't yet another UTI developing. On Saturday we just finished a 10 day course of 250 mg levaquin per day to heal a UTI.
    No exercise, yet, today, but she's remained up and in good spirits. We'll see how the day shakes out.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1821     Reading:  101

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1828     BP:  168/75     Pulse:  57

Dinner:  1830  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb Salad, this time with approx 1 oz chopped lean pastrami, radishes, cherry tomatoes, green olives, Bermuda onion, carrot, purple cabbage, 1/2 a boiled egg, approx 1 oz shredded parmesan cheese, crumbled Nachos Doritos and appox 2 oz of a store bought butterfly pasta salad with feta cheese, chopped squash and a bit of Italian spices, on a bed of mixed dark green and red leaf vegetables with approx 2 Tbl 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 when given with glipizide
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/2.5 mg	1/2 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

    I'm definitely not happy about her blood pressure, which continues to run high, today. I suppose I will find out, in a few days, whether it is due to yet another UTI. I'm beside myself about this.
    No exercise today, nor walkering; the weather has been unusually cold and very windy, working up to what promise to be a stormy day, tomorrow. The lack of an exercise session is mostly my fault. I spent so much time, today, sorting through stuff we brought up from Mesa and finding places for some of it that I simply forgot. She did not spend an inordinate amount of time asleep, though; she took a nap of only an hour and a half.