Today's Stats:

BM Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  0956     Reading:  99

Blood Pressure:     Time:  0959     BP:  154/73     Pulse:  66

Breakfast:  1050  & 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

    Yes, I took full breakfast stats, today. I was curious, after two days of midday desserts. Anyway, I'm sorry I took the blood pressure. She was already agitated because she awoke on her own very early (for her) and I was just heading out to Costco. I didn't have a problem stopping everything and doing her and my morning instead of my morning. But, she had a problem with my slowness. All the small things I set up before we bathe, as she rises from bed and shuffles into the bathroom, have to be done while she's sitting on the toilet and I'm trying to convince her that she'll be warmer if she takes off her soaked pajama tops. Stripping and spraying her bed, starting the bacon, putting on water to boil, administering her 1st-thing-in-the-morning pills, beginning the bath, usually she's moving herself into a vertical position while I'm doing all this. She wasn't very patient and had worked herself up into a lather of me refusing to get her toilet paper and my insistence that (as usual) I would be cleaning her ass. Then, I took her blood pressure. Stupid move.
    Her blood sugar looks good, though.
    Her Bowel Movement took place first thing for her 'this morning'. The urge to eliminate is what awoke her, at about 0940. Good volume, good consistency, very light clean up, very easy elimination.
    She still water shedding as normal, but dealing with that has become routine for both of us.

Non-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1430  & 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

    Although she is having an off schedule day which may be introducing us to a new schedule, when she laid down for a nap it was within the typical lag between breakfast and nap, around 1230. I left for Costco immediately, expecting to be back, with only one side trip, no later than 1430. I arrived home at 1403 and Mom was up, sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of water, reading her book.
Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1827     Reading:  123

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1829     BP:  138/61     Pulse:  63

Dinner:  1855  & Meds What she ate:  approx 6 oz roasted ham w/curry-maple glaze 1 small nuked yam with who knows how much butter a dinner salad with greens, carrots, olives, shredded Parmesan, Bermuda onions and radishes 2 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	1/2 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

    She ate almost the whole thing! She's been up and lively (for her) all afternoon. I've been very pleased. Her stats look good.
    Good day. Not much sunshine, but good day.