Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1136     Reading:  94

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1245  & 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

    Just desserts works again! Nothing unusual about breakfast, this morning.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1731     Reading:  91

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1745  & Meds What she ate:  1/6th of a 9" deep dish tomato sausage biscuit pie 12 oz. chai tea with cinnamon stick
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 was so ready for lunch...no nap today, her choice. It looks like she may not nap between now and our late Just Desserts dinner of cheesecake and raspberry maple sauce. I'm very pleased.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2126     Reading:  197

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2136     BP:  123/59     Pulse:  58

Dinner:  2145  & Meds What she ate:  1/12 of a Costco sized pumpkin cheesecake with approx 1/2 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
1 Tbl Phillip's Milk of Magnesia	after meal, with 8 pz water	a bit more than an antacid dose, a bit less than a laxative dose, to keep her stools soft and stimulate hopefully and gently stimulate a bowel movement tomorrow

    Yes, 195 is a little too high for comfortable consideration for me, too. I'm wondering, now, if it's pushing it to do two Just Desserts nights in a row...or, if the combination of tomatoes and flour in the tomato sausage biscuit pie was a bit much. I vaguely remember, now, that on the nights when we've had tomato sausage biscuit pie before, in the morning her blood sugar was elevated. Well, tomorrow we'll play it straight, plenty of fiber and flavor, as few refined carbohydrates as possible. I'm not terribly worried, though, about the effects of the cheesecake and sauce. I think her meds will take care of her ability to handle that, but it's obvious I can't push sugar every day with her.
    Her blood pressure looks good, though. I think I'm on the right track as far as cutting back on readings. It's easy to take her blood pressure, now that we are both relaxed about the process and its lack of frequency.