Today's Stats:

BM Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1217     Reading:  104

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1330  & 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 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
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with or after meal	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Continuing with only one BP measurement per day, in the evening before dinner, since everything looked good yesterday; what I thought might be a decline symptomatic of some condition in need of immediate attention turned out to be nothing.
    Yes, a late arising again.
    She just went down for a nap (rainy days are her Waterloo). Her right knee appeared to be giving her trouble so I gave her 500 mg acetaminophen, with which she didn't argue.
    BM between 1500 and 1530. Very easy, almost too easy, although she had no trouble controlling her elimination until she reached the bathroom. A bit messy after which to clean up, although not bad. I think I'll stop the Phillip's Milk of Magnesia for awhile, or maybe ratchet it down to 1/2 Tbl every other day, depending on how things go (pun not intended but appropriate).

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1711     Reading:  162

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1730  & Meds What she ate:  1/6th of a piece of the tomato sausage pie, the last of it 1/4 tsp. cinnamon w/cranberry juice (left over from breakfast)
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
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

    I'm not sure why her blood sugar was so high at lunch. She was actually up most of the day, once I aroused her and took only a short nap. Oh well. I monitored her pill taking this morning, so I know it wasn't that, and we've both been here all day, so I know it wasn't that she ate anything that would raise her blood sugar before lunch. It wasn't dangerously high, though, so I'm not worried.

Dinner Non-stats

Dinner:  2045  & Meds What she ate:  1/12 of a piece of Costco sized pumpkin cheesecake with approx 1/2 cup raspberry maple sauce
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

    I completely forgot stats, tonight. We were involved in breaking into the 2nd season of Deep Space 9 and I served our Just Desserts Dinner when she reported she was hungry. I'm expecting everything to be okay, though, tomorrow morning.
    I expect this will be the last of the closely packed Just Desserts dinners for awhile, since I've frozen the other half of the cheesecake and muffins for company next week.