Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1036     Reading:  104

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1125     BP:  153/64     Pulse:  55

Breakfast:  1150  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon a 3/4" (at the wide end) wedge of panettone with .75 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/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

    Although her blood pressure was higher than I like, it wasn't as bad as yesterday, so I gave her the normal dose of lisinopril. I'm curious to see how the panettone is going to shake out, since it is a sweet yeast break with raisins and bits of candied fruit. That's why she got such a small piece.
    I was going to let her get up on her own, today, seeing as how it's a rain day and she doesn't like those. But, at 1030 I decided to awaken her.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1609     Reading:  155

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1643     BP:  150/66     Pulse:  58

Lunch:  1645  & Meds What she ate:  2 ears corn on the cob with margarine to taste 3 Milton's Multigrain Crackers with a thin spreading of garden vegetable cream cheese and one chopped green olive on each 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

    Well, you can see this morning's panettone, even though it was a thin slice, in her blood glucose reading. Of course, she's also been asleep for most of the day.
    I gave her a dose of lisinopril for lunch, which is unusual, but, until I figure out why she's running high, I figure I'd better do what I can without knocking her out (lisinopril can make one dizzy and tired...my mother doesn't need anything that does either to her). The truth is, I'm thinking that her blood pressure might be a reaction to me. I'm, well, not the friendliest person, lately; my motivation toward what I do with and for my mother is, as well, absolutely nil, right now. More about this later at The Mom & Me Journals dot Net.
    She's eating lunch so late and sleeping so much, today, that if I can't keep her up, this may be the last meal she has today. I hope not. She could definitely use another dose of iron and glipizide, as well as aloe vera gel. But, we'll see. And, if she decides to go to bed within the next four hours, well, I'm not going to fight her. I seem to have lost the energy to push and encourage and bolster her.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2025     Reading:  145

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2034     BP:  153/67     Pulse:  55

Dinner:  2050  & Meds What she ate:  An enhanced dinner salad, on the order of a small Cobb salad, really, with along with all the vegetables, a little lean pastrami and shredded Parmesan cheese and, of course, the homemade buttermilk ranch dressing 1 slice oat bran toast with 1 Tbl Fleischmann's margarine and 1/4 tsp cinnamon
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin when used 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

    The salad was at my mother's request, after she saw a fast food salad advertised during The Eukanuba Dog Show. Earlier in the day, before lunch, she'd asked that we have macaroni and cheese (with the usual sauteed vegetables, browned meat and extra cheese) for dinner, but her system was still pretty full from her lunch and salad seemed right to her, tonight. I was pleased with her choice. As is typical, her system was still working off the panettone tonight, although that was nowhere near as difficult for it to work off than the sweet roll we had a few days ago.
    Still, her blood pressure is on the high side for her. Tonight I decided to give her half a lisinopril. Although there is always the possibility that within the next 48 hours it will become apparent that she has another UTI, I'm fairly convinced, now, that her blood pressure is a reaction to me, as well as to the lowered level of activity I've allowed over the last few weeks.