Today's Stats:

BM Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  91     Reading:  1229

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 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

    A couple of things I want to note, besides the fact that I intended to awaken Mom at 1100 when I arrived home from Costco, but the day waylaid me.
    She had a BM today at 1300, while we were bathing her. Easy movement, quickly expelled, good volume.
    I had to get more vitamin C, today. I purchased a bottle of 500 mg tablets, so I could spare my pill splitter for her lisinopril (the 1000 mg VC pills are huge and I'm sure they dull the edge of the splitter). I arrived home, distributed them into her pill bottles (we ran out yesterday evening) and noticed they were bright orange, which usually means they are chewable (which they were, I hadn't noticed) and, thus, contain sugar. The back of the bottle says "less than 1 g sugar/less than 1 g carbohydrates". Hopefully, that amount shouldn't make a difference, but, if it does, I'll head back to Costco and purchase non-chewables. Since I've opened the bottle, I can't return this one, but I can take them.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1722     Reading:  149

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1730  & 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 tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron

    Although her blood sugar may seem high, when she decided she was hungry and couldn't wait to eat lunch it had only been a little over 3 hours since she'd eaten her last bite of breakfast, so, her blood sugar is pretty much on track for this time span.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2035     Reading:  128

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2039     BP:  152/57     Pulse:  69

Dinner:  2056  & Meds What she ate:  Cobb salad with 1 whole deviled egg, chopped ham, freshing shredded Parmesan, greens, chopped radishes, green pepper, Bermuda onion, green olives, grated carrots, grated purple cabbage, maybe 5 White Cheddar Doritos Nachos and approx 3 Tbl home made Ranch dressing.
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 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 was a bit alarmed at her blood pressure, although she spent the evening going in and out of a looking-for-cigarettes fit and insisting that she'd been smoking all day and that surely there were cigarettes in the house. This could have accounted for its hike.
    Her blood sugar is well within range for there having been only 3 hours between lunch and dinner. Once again, she was quite hungry. I think I'm going to have to "plump up" her meals, a bit, to avoid this, or suggest that she snack on pickles, olives and vegetables between meals, although she isn't awfully fond of doing this. If her appetite continues in this manner (and, believe me, I celebrate her having a hearty appetite), though, since I make sure the house isn't loaded with high carb food, hopefully she'll take to snacking on what we have. I can't feed her popcorn all day without deleterious consequences to her blood sugar, I've already discovered this.
    I'm also going to keep a close eye on her blood sugar because of the Vitamin C with sugar. Today wasn't a good test day, but I'm sure we'll have several in the near future.