Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1141     Reading:  88

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1245  & 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
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

    Normal everything, including behavior.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1653     Reading:  137

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Lunch:  1715  & Meds What she ate:  approx 8 oz Beef Pot Roast soup with added beef, green onions and 1/4 tsp cinnamon approx 6 of MCS's home made bread and butter pickles
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

    I suppose her blood sugar will soar before I feed her dinner tonight. Two more days of antibiotics. I'll be glad when we're done with them.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1928     Reading:  119

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1932     BP:  141/64     Pulse:  58

Dinner:  1950  & Meds What she ate:  5 buffalo wings approx 1 cup small curd 4% milkfat cottage cheese 11.5 oz V-8 juice
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 2 hours after 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
291.66 mg Augmentin	1/3 of an 875 mg tablet with meal	to address UTI

    Needless to say, I was surprised at her blood sugar, especially considering that it had been not quite 3 hours since she ate "lunch". I'm confused, now. When she's not on antibiotics, her normal lunch will bring her blood sugar to normal or close to normal before dinner. Today, it was soup and, considering that the added beef jerky was teriyaki flavor and one of the ingredients that "makes" teriyaki teriyaki is sugar; the soup, itself, had sugar listed on the label, although I'm sure it was in minute quantities. As well, I thought yesterday's blood sugar reading at dinner may have been due to the bread and butter pickles, which include sugar in the brine. And, of course, I've considered shortened time element between meals. Tonight, it was very short, as it was yesterday...her hunger got the best of her, again. And, yet, we got a very nice blood sugar reading. I don't know. I can't explain it, now.
    Sometimes I wonder if it's worth all the analyzation and worry, anyway, since her diabetes is well enough under control so that she's not at risk for the typical long range problems of diabetes.