Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1201     Reading:  91

Blood Pressure:Not taken

Breakfast:  1315  & 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

LUNCH:

Lunch:  ?  & 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
18 mg Iron Protein Succinylate	1 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

    I plumb forgot to take her blood pressure because we were so involved in conversation this morning. By the time I remembered I'd already administered her blood pressure medication. I'm pleased with her blood sugar. I was expecting the mounds of her beloved ketchup with which she slathered all her food, last night, to be lingering in her blood this morning, but it wasn't.
    Again, she's under the weather, as, it turns out, there is weather today to be under. Rain today, rain/snow mix tonight and tomorrow. So, it's a low key day, again. I'm grateful because I'm feeling distinctly low key. She already back in bed for her nap. We may not get in three meals today, but that's okay. If she spends the day in bed, she won't need three meals.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1701     Reading:  143

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1706     BP:  154/69     Pulse:  55

Lunch:  1715  & Meds What she ate:  1/2 3 oz bag "lite" microwave popcorn 7 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

    Blood glucose on course, but her blood pressure has me a little freaked. It went down when I was paying more attention to myself than her during My Month of Me (now I wish I'd kept stats for comparison but, oh well) and now it's going back up, again. I guess I must be "at" her more than I was. It's not a bad "at", it's just constant attention; frequent comments; frequent suggestions, sometimes correction...It seems to me that I'm more lenient than I was before My Month of Me but, well, maybe not. I'll keep my eye on it.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2055     Reading:  ?

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2057     BP:  179/73     Pulse:  57

Dinner:  2110  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb salad made as usual, featuring on her bed of greens, tonight, chopped celery, Bermuda onion, green olives, grated carrot, sliced radishes, crumbled herbed feta cheese, the last of the Thanksgiving ham chopped, Cheetos-as-croutons, a whole deviled egg and approx. 2 Tbl creamy Kraft Classic Caesar dressing (we were out of buttermilk, tonight).
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

    Now, I'm worried. Her BP is higher than I thought it would be. Better get her moving tomorrow. Slowly but steadily.