Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1259     Reading:  92

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1303     BP:  153/63     Pulse:  55

Breakfast:  1354  & 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

    Nothing unusual about breakfast, today, especially considering that we've been observing late days, recently. We're back to bacon and oat bran toast so her midday blood sugar readings should go down. As well, I expect her to be up all day today. There's a program on at 2200 tonight that she's interested in watching, so we'll be gearing the day toward this.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1754     Reading:  159

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1755     BP:  120/50     Pulse:  56

Lunch:  1807  & 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

    She's doing very well on this lunch and enjoys it so, while she's not moving much, I won't be varying it. Her blood pressure was well within it's normal lunch time range. Had we waited an hour (she ate lunch an hour earlier than usual relative to breakfast, but she was hungry and there didn't seem to be a reason to wait) she probably would have been in the 130s. I swear, medical research needs to address the fact that elderly diabetics who develop reduced sensitivity to insulin as a result of old organs. This isn't yet being done and I'll be damned if I'll administer insulin to my mother when her body will take her blood sugar down just about as quickly as a shot of insulin will, without the possibility of a blood sugar crash. Medical people, are you listening?

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2047     Reading:  120

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2051     BP:  142/70     Pulse:  53

Dinner:  2110  & Meds What she ate:  approx 1.5 cups yesterday evening's bean soup 1 slice sourdough garlic olive cheese bread about an hour after dinner, 2 cups of an on-the-fly dessert made from folding approx 3/4 cup of my delicious homemade raspberry sauce into 3/4 cup lightly sweetened whipped cream
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 was a little surprised at her blood pressure, but she didn't have a nap, today, and was very animated (but not necessarily movement oriented) all day. She stayed up from a little before 1300 until a little after midnight...a stretch on 11 hours with her eyes constantly open and her brain consciously activated. Good show.
    The dessert was an afterthought which came to me as I was ridding the refrigerator of stuff that was beginning to lose it's recognition factor. I decided I'd better do something with the raspberry sauce I unfroze on Thanksgiving besides refreeze it. The dessert was a hit. Because it was a whipped dessert it appeared to be "more" than it was. In the two cup serving she got less than a cup of "goods" but felt as though she was indulging in sin. I actually wasn't able to eat more than half of my portion but she polished hers off with gusto. The perfect dessert, I'd say.