Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1147     Reading:  99

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1200     BP:  135/60     Pulse:  54

Breakfast:  1245  & 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

    Today's another snow day, regardless of what the weather channel is reporting. Although I've failed to note it, over the last two days I've been feeding my mother occasional tablets of extra strength acetaminophen, sometimes a whole tablet, sometimes a half, if she wants it. Today she's "under the weather", again, but only slightly and refused the acetaminophen but decided to crawl back into bed a mere 2.5 hours after being up. She was determined and I didn't stop her. She looks good and her stats are good and she was talking about her "late night" last night, so I figured, she probably won't sleep long, let her rest.
    You may have noticed that her breakfast bacon consumption has boosted itself from two to three pieces. That was sometime last month at her request. The addition seems to keep her from hunting for snacks between breakfast and lunch.

Rest of the Day
    For lunch and dinner I ignored the taking of stats, yesterday. However, med and supplement administration continued as normal, meals continued as normal, and this is what she ate:
Lunch:
    Her current usual...see previous posts.
Dinner
    I gave into a mood, yesterday (into which I'm continuing to give, today) and I wasn't hungry last night, so I didn't prepare food. Instead, I went to Carl's Jr. and got Mom a $6.00 Guacamole Bacon Burger and their smallest order of onion rings. She was delighted, ate the entire burger and almost all the onion rings slathered with her beloved ketchup, then stayed up, once again, until just past midnight.