Today's Stats:

BM Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1230     Reading:  84

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1340  & Meds What she ate:  21 hard over eggs, heavily peppered approx 4 oz roasted hame 1 Costco croissant 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
250 mg Levaquin	2 hours after morning dose of iron	to address UTI
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with or after meal	with Levaquin

    Normal breakfast, normal everything.
    Her Bowel Movement was a bit of a surprise, happening, once again, while we were bathing her. Easy elimination, minor volume, more a final cleaning from yesterday, I think. Easy clean-up, too.

Non-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1815  & 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
tolterodine tartrate ER/4 mg	Once per day	4 week trial to see if it inhibits her incontinence

    Easy lunch...she was only "middling" hungry. She'll be eating her dinner a bit closer to lunch than usual, though. About a half hour ago she announced her late evening hunger.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2050     Reading:  169

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2054     BP:  117/52     Pulse:  60

Dinner:  2115  & Meds What she ate:  The last of the beef pot pies, with lots of rib eye steak and vegetables in it
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

    There wasn't much time between lunch and dinner, today, for my mother, which accounts for the high blood sugar reading. Her blood pressure, though, is right on target.