Today's Stats:

BM Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1210     Reading:  103

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1400  & Meds What she ate:  1.5 eggs, heavily peppered, scrambled with approx .5 oz crumbled/fried/defatted sausage, 1 chopped slices of fried bacon and approx 1/8 cup chopped green onions 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
1 Tbl Phillip's Milk of Magnesia	just after meal with 8 oz water	a little more than an antacid dose, a bit less than a laxative dose, to keep her stools soft

    Late start, I know, my fault explained one of today's Mom & Me posts. Everything else was normal.
    BM today just after bathing and before (which was one of two breakfast hold-ups today). Although she complained of "having trouble" moving her bowels, so I had her stand up and gave her a stimulating wipe, she didn't actually have any trouble, and I'm not sure she needed the wipe. The last recorded BM was on the 23rd, but I know she's had one since then...I just forgot to record it and don't remember exactly which day it was.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1816     Reading:  124

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1820  & Meds What she ate:  1/2 3 oz bag "lite" microwave popcorn 8 unpitted variety olives in a vinegar, olive oil, dill brine 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
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

    Lunch stats are normal. Both of us napped the afternoon away; "dinner" will probably be 3 or so hours but couldn't be now because it's too early for a second dose of her serious meds, so a light lunch seemed like a good idea.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2036     Reading:  148

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2039     BP:  112/56     Pulse:  58

Dinner:  2100  & Meds What she ate:  yet another 1/6 of a pie slice of the tomato sausage biscuit pie from yesterday
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
1 Tbl Phillip's Milk of Magnesia	about an hour before going to bed, w/ 8 oz water	mid range dose to keep her shit from rocking up

    Because dinner was so close to "lunch" (I actually had to hold her off an hour...she was hungry but I couldn't give her meds, which need to be taken with food, until between 2030 and 2100) I almost didn't take her blood sugar because I was thinking it wouldn't show much difference from her level at "lunch", but I decided it would be interesting to see how her blood sugar measured at a time that would normally be between meals. I wasn't surprised at the reading.
    Her blood pressure looks so good I almost cut her lisinopril dosage in half, but decided to give it to her anyway. 2.5 mg is the lowest "legal" dose. I don't think it'll hurt her. Just out of curiosity, I may take her blood pressure sometime tomorrow morning when she's relaxed...probably not before breakfast.