Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1217     Reading:  83

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

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

    New procedure, which I discussed in The Mom & Me Journals dot Net: I'm not going to take her blood pressure any more at breakfast and lunch, unless it appears to be necessary for health reasons. I think her blood pressure will remain steadier, over all, if I bother her, during times of good health, only once a day. The best time to take it, for both of us, is evening, when she's settled in her rocker, reading or watching TV, and she's been sitting there, at rest, for awhile.
    Yes, there was a considerable lag between the time I awoke her (noon straight up), the time she extended a hand for blood sugar testing and the time that she finally ate breakfast. It was a very slow day for her, today; but, her appetite was good, so I'm not worried about her being sick.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1822     Reading:  120

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1840  & Meds What she ate:  6 slices beef summer sausage; three slices each swiss, dofino and medium cheddar cheese 9 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

    Although lunch would seem at a proper interval from breakfast, this is getting out of hand, these late mornings. Obviously, a proper interval between lunch and dinner would put us eating dinner between 2300 and 0000. Not acceptable, mainly because my day actually has to start quite a bit earlier than noon, every day, and I can't be going to bed every night at 0100 or 0200 and getting up at 0600 or 0700. We talked about this, tonight, which I'll discuss in The Mom & Me Journals dot net.

Just Desserts Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2108     Reading:  97

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2111     BP:  131/61     Pulse:  56

Dinner:  2130  & Meds What she ate:  One Sour Cherry Cream Cheese jumbo dessert muffin
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 have to admit, I held my breath when taking her blood sugar this evening. I was hoping that it would be in a normal range so that she'd be able to tolerate the Just Desserts dinner I'd already promised her. The 120 at lunch made me a little anxious, especially since "dinner" occurred less than 3 hours after lunch. No problem, as it turns out. Good. When she isn't up as much, during the day, it works better not to feed her as much.