Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1123     Reading:  89

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1230  & Meds What she ate:  2 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

    Back to normal reading schedule...blood pressure only once a day. Actually, she seems the tiniest bit bloated to me, so her body may be having a little bout of CHF, probably because of the antibiotics and the changes in the rest of her medication. Hopefully it will be over soon. Everything else normal for breakfast, except that she announced that she was "hungry this morning" and wanted two eggs, which I gave her.

No-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1545  & 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

    I didn't take stats today because I forgot. She surprised me with her hunger only three hours after breakfast, before taking a nap, so, to keep her from rummaging around in the kitchen, I hurriedly prepared her "something to hold [her] up" and realized, halfway through, that I'd forgotten to take her blood sugar. By then it was too late.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1915     Reading:  153

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1918     BP:  143/63     Pulse:  60

Temperature:     Time:  1845     Reading:  98.4

Dinner:  1940  & Meds What she ate:  5 artichoke ravioli approx 1.5 cups meat marinara with added onions, green pepper and celery approx 2 Tbl shredded parmesan cheese
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 at 2130	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
291.66 mg Augmentin	1/3 of an 875 mg tablet with meal	to address her UTI

    She still seems bloated to me and her blood pressure indicates that she may be retaining water. She had a dry hacking cough earlier so I immediately put her on oxygen. Although she once again announced how hungry she was, only ate about 2/3's of her dinner...in fact, I wondered about her appetite when she mentioned it and told her that if she didn't want to eat all her meal, not to force it.
    You'll notice the temperature reading in the afternoon. I was just curious. Her forehead felt fine so I decided to see if I could get a baseline temp for her on the arterial thermometer since I know that her baseline on a mercury thermometer by mouth is around 97.8-or-9. 98.4 sounds about right for an arterial reading.