Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1202     Reading:  95

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1226     BP:  133/65     Pulse:  59

Temperature:     Time:  1203     Reading:  99.1

Breakfast:  1330  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 1 of the Christmas dessert muffins w/1.5 Tbl Fleischmann's magarine 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

    For those of you unfamiliar with an arterial thermometer, a temperature of 99.1 is well within normal range; could probably translate directly to 98.6. Although I normally do not take her blood pressure in the morning because it is bound to be the highest of the day, since she is struggling to awaken and "get around", this is exactly why I took it. Although low for the records I've been keeping during the last several months, its not so low that I'm worried. In fact, I was pleased to see that it was what it was.
    Although she's shown no real sign of her appetite lagging, I wanted to be sure and tempt it, which is why I decided on serving muffins for breakfast, even though I knew it would temporarily blow her blood sugar out of the park; so, I figured, I wouldn't take her blood sugar at lunch, since it wouldn't matter. Just at dinner.

Non-stat Lunchette

Lunch:  1715  & Meds What she ate:  6 unpitted variety olives in a vinegar, olive oil, dill brine and approx 1/4 cup of MCS's home made 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 tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron

    Mom stayed up quite awhile today, after breakfast. Didn't lay down for a nap until almost 1600 and only slept for about an hour, which is a very good sign. I wanted to get some iron in her a couple of hours before dinner, so I fed her a lunchette, gave her iron, and promised that we'd have a dinner of her choice a couple of hours later.
    Decided not to take stats as per what I discussed in her Breakfast Stats post.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1922     Reading:  140

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1924     BP:  145/69     Pulse:  64

Temperature:     Time:  2230     Reading:  100.4

Dinner:  1945  & Meds What she ate:  1 Carl's Junior $6 Guacamole Bacon Burger 5 onion rings half a small order of french fries lots of ketchup
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin when used with glipizide
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
291.66 mg Augmentin	1/3 of an 875 mg tablet with meal	temporary for UTI treatment
500 mg acetaminophen	1 tablet before bed with 8 oz water	temporary for UTI treatment

    She chose dinner tonight; fast food, Carl's Junior, "the hamburgers with the green stuff". She ate hearty, had no trouble with her medication.
    Just before she retired, I took her temperature. It was again, tonight, just over the border of the upper limit of normal for an arterial temperature. I decided to give her 1 extra strength acetaminophen tablet as a preventative, but no more, to keep her stomach from churning everything up.