Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1239     Reading:  95

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1253     BP:  140/58     Pulse:  51

Breakfast:  1415  & 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

    I know, she was up very late this morning. My fault, my conscious fault. I'll explain in the Mom & Me Too journal for this date. Otherwise, she felt good, was in a good mood, and her blood pressure looked better than usual.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1841     Reading:  75

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1843     BP:  152/63     Pulse:  54

Lunch:  1900  & Meds What she ate:  3 slices beef summer sausage, 3 slices garlic beef summer sausage, 2 slices dofino cheese, 2 slices mild cheddar cheese, 2 slices swiss cheese 6 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 took a short nap between 1730 and 1845. Had a good appetite, blood sugar looked good, wanted a hearty snack but not a meal.

Breakfast
    Tonight, I declined to take her stats on purpose. After lunch she mentioned that she'd "sure like to try" the cheesecake tartlets someone sent us for Christmas (she never forgets the sweets we receive), so I made a deal with her. I told her that if she could wait for a couple of hours until she could 'legally' take her blood sugar and blood pressure meds, we'd split the box (it contained twelve tartlets in 6 flavors) and that's all we'd have for dinner. She was delighted. I think, when I allow her sweets, this is the best way to deliver them, all sweets, nothing else, at a time when she can take her medication. She was so excited about eating the sweets that I couldn't see any reason to spoil the party by taking stats, so I didn't. I knew she'd probably be in normal range with her blood glucose and perhaps a bit high on her systolic bp. Either way, her meds would remain the same. So, at 2100, just as a repeat of the last episode of Sex and the City started, which she wanted very much to watch (it hasn't come out on DVD, yet), I plated our tartlets and we savored sweets with a sweet show.
    I am, of course, curious to see what her blood sugar is going to be like in the morning but, I'm not worried. It wouldn't surprise me if she was in normal or near normal range.