Today's Stats:

Non-stat Breakfast

Breakfast:  1230  & Meds What she ate:  2 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz sugar cured lean roasted ham 2 slices 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: 1130	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
Levaquin/250 mg	1 tablet 2 hours after iron ingestion: 1330	to address UTI
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with antibiotics	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Her urine is still a bit cloudy, but she's no longer bleeding. She ate a very hearty breakfast. Asked for two eggs, two pieces of toast and got them.
    I am, by the way, getting the hang of noting times without the help of medical measurement instruments.

Different Non-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1645  & Meds What she ate:  a ham and cheese sandwich made with approx 4 oz lean roasted ham, 1.5 oz yellow sharp cheddar cheese, maybe 1.5 tsp stone ground mustard and 2 slices oat bran bread approx 1/4 cup of MCS's bread and butter pickles 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

    She awoke from her nap knowing exactly what she wanted: "A ham sandwich". That's what she got.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2033     Reading:  147

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2038     BP:  136/62     Pulse:  69

Dinner:  2045  & Meds What she ate:  approx 1.5 cups homemade Easy Bean and Ham Soup over maybe an ounce size piece of Southwest Corn Corn Bread
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

    Dinner was a stat dinner, but nothing unusual cropped up. Her appetite was a little fey, but she'd given me mixed signals. Although it wasn't that many hours since she'd eaten a filling lunch, she began complaining about being hungry again at 2015...so I dashed about making dinner, which I'd planned on for around 2100 or so, anyway, then, when I managed to put it in front of her no later than 2045, she only ate about half. This is the first time in a long time she hasn't eaten everything, but it's also the first time in a long time that she's had such a filling lunch.