Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1101     Reading:  85

Blood Pressure:Not Taken

Breakfast:  1159  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz slice sugar cured lean ham 1 pumpkin cranberry muffin with 1 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/4 tsp cinnamon on muffin 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
acetaminophen/250 mg	1/2 a 500 mg pill with meal as needed	I can't tell you why, but, even though she insisted she was neither in pain nor still, I had a hunch she might need it, so I gave it to her.
1/2 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

    You'll notice she back to 2.5 mg lisinopril. Her blood pressure, after an initial drop at the beginning of November, began to climb a little so I resumed the higher dose. She didn't move much during My Month of Me and slept a lot, so I am assuming that, now that were back to My Time Is Her Time and we'll be moving more, exercising, again, etc., that her blood pressure will begin to drop, again.
    I've been out of the habit of taking her blood pressure obsessively, so I forgot about it until the evening meal. It shouldn't take me too long to get back to the swing of things.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1601     Reading:  174

Blood Pressure:Not Taken

Lunch:  1615  & Meds What she ate:  1/2 a 3 oz bag of "lite" microwave popcorn 7 variety olives with pits in a vinegar, dill, olive oil marinade 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

    Lunch was pretty normal, today. She seems to do best with a light lunch and a hearty dinner, so we've gotten in the popcorn/olive/V-8 juice habit over the last month. She seems to like it and it's served us well since she hasn't been moving much. I think, as I get her moving and out, again, she'll probably want and her blood sugar will be able to tolerate heartier lunches.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2020     Reading:  83

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2024     BP:  141/67     Pulse:  52

Dinner:  2030  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb Salad, as previously described, this time with bits of ham, grated parmesan cheese, Bermuda onion, radishes, 1/2 boiled egg, green pepper and carrot, crumbles Doritos Nachos as croutons and about 2 Tbl homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
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
1/2 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

    Yes, she often drinks cranberry juice twice a day, now. It's been part of my program to try to prevent UTI's. It seems to have worked since early October. I hope it continues. This is the first day in a long time that our meals have been evenly spaced. I was surprised at her lunch time BG spike, but I figure that was the pumpkin cranberry muffin talking and, anyway, it was below 200 so I think we're okay. Even when she comes in at above 200 within a few hours her blood sugar always returns to normal, as long as she doesn't snack all day. I still haven't found the need to give her insulin, and probably won't. We did quite well with just diet control during My Month of Me and I expect we'll do much better now that she'll be moving more, again.
    She only takes one Vitamin E a day, now, at dinner, as I noticed there was an E overlap with her morning multi-vitamin.