Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1214     Reading:  82

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

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

    That's right, late start to the day, mainly because I had a very late end to yesterday and slept in until 1100 this morning. I needed my coffee, so I waited until noon to awaken Mom. She was sitting on the edge of her bed when I entered her room. Blood sugar looks good.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1758     Reading:  115

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1830  & Meds What she ate:  approx 1 cup left over ham and bean soup approx 1.5 cups left over mac & cheese w/ground beef & sausage, onions, celery & green pepper 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

    Well, obviously, we had the heartiness of dinner for lunch, today, because I am intending that we'll have a Just Desserts dinner of pumpkin cheesecake with homemade raspberry-maple sauce.
    I'm expecting her blood sugar reading to be high when I take it before we eat our Just Desserts dinner, because she hasn't taken any diabetic medication since breakfast. She will, however, be receiving her medication with dinner, so I also expect her blood sugar to be politely normal in the morning; although, if it is a bit high, it won't surprise me...there's a lot of sugar in both the cheesecake and the raspberry-maple sauce. It make take awhile for her Ancient body to work this off.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2110     Reading:  170

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2115     BP:  120/62     Pulse:  51

Dinner:  2130  & Meds What she ate:  1/2 of a Costco sized pumpkin cheesecake dressed with approx 1/3 cup raspberry-maple sauce
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 told my mother (because she takes an interest in her blood sugar and blood pressure readings), just before I took her blood sugar for this meal, that I expected it to be "between 160 & 180". It came in exactly between the two. I expected this because it had only been about three hours since she had last eaten and that meal had a higher amount of refined carbohydrates (the macaroni) than is normal for any meal in this house.
    I'm very pleased with her blood pressure. I caught her while she was deeply involved in a Deep Space 9 episode and off oxygen (I mention this for my reference), thus she was extremely relaxed and concentrating on something that kept her from moving too much, talking to the cat or talking to me. Despite her blood pressure, her feet were, again, the tiniest bit swollen, but she didn't hack/cough today at all, so I think they were swollen because she was up on them more than has been lately normal.