Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1217     Reading:  97

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1238     BP:  154/73     Pulse:  ?

Breakfast:  1345  & 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

    If you've read my main journal, you already know that my mother was up in the middle of the night, for awhile, just enjoying herself, practicing an old habit. Thus, although I roused her at 1000, I can't actually say that she roused at all; she was dead to the world. At noon I finally decided, it's time. Everything looks good, she ate well, her blood sugar did just fine after last night's Just Desserts dinner. I'm going to have to figure out a better time and way to take her blood pressure so that it doesn't reflect her initial efforts to get her bod working, nor her annoyance with me when I'm taking her blood pressure.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1718     Reading:  147

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1722     BP:  141/64     Pulse:  58

Lunch:  1745  & 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

    We're back to her regular lunch, mainly because she had an extremely challenging bowel movement, earlier, and I wanted to make sure she got lots of fiber, today. Not that she hasn't been getting lots of fiber, but, even though she's been getting plenty of olives, I think the added cheese and the lack of popcorn were somewhat contributory to the rocks of shit she had to eliminate, today.
    Considering the work she did in the bathroom, today, I'm pleased with her blood pressure, but I'm curious about her blood sugar. Not sure what's going on, there. Could simply be the interval wasn't as long as usual between breakfast and lunch.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2055     Reading:  119

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2059     BP:  156/80     Pulse:  54

Dinner:  2114  & Meds What she ate:  approx 3/4 home made chicken salad consisting of chopped white and dark meat chicken, chopped celery, chopped onion, chopped dill pickle, 1 large (not elephant) clove garlic, lemon zest, basil, freshly ground black pepper, celery salt to taste and enough mayonnaise to glue it all together on a bed of salad greens (not including iceberg lettuce). 1/8 slice ciabatta garlic bread with roasted garlic, margarine and parmesan
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 twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    I'm pretty sure her elevated diastolic is because of all the liquids I've been feeding her since she finally expelled the rock shit. I gave her an antacid dose of Phillip's Milk of Magnesia immediately after the movement and worked hard on her to get enough liquid down to move the medicine through and help soften anything else she's got in her colon.
    Her blood sugar is still running higher than I expected. By this time, with the lunch I gave her, it's usually back into normal range, below 100. I should check back and see whether, on days when she's back up and expelling compacted shit, her blood sugar (and BP) run high. I wonder if I would even be able to find such days, if I've recorded them other than casually and occasionally. Perhaps, for awhile, it would be a good idea for me to record the days she has bowel movements and the quality of the elimination.