Today's Stats:

Non-stat Breakfast

Breakfast:  1310  & 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: 1215	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: 1415	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with antibiotic	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Although up a little late everything was fine, normal.

Non-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1740  & Meds What she ate:  8 oz low fat, artificially sweetened peach yoghurt 6 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

    A normal day, just a litte later than usual.

BM Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1954     Reading:  114

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1957     BP:  109/59     Pulse:  60

Dinner:  2045  & Meds What she ate:  approx 1.5 cups of my home made Mac & 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 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

    Everything fine as far as dinner was concerned. She ate well, didn't drink much but I sensed she may have been feeling overhydrated so didn't bother her about liquids.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred at 2020, just as I was mixing up all the ingredients and readying dinner for eating. Consistency was good; volume was such that she will probably have another bowel movement sometime tonight or tomorrow; elimination was easy, the second time. About 20 minutes previous to her bowel movement, she felt the urge, sat in the bathroom for about 10 minutes and finally left, frustrated, although she said she didn't strain and she probably didn't. It was a clean movement, though.
    From now on, by the way, when a recipe exists over at the food part of this journal for something I've served my mother, instead of describing the dish I'll link to the recipe, as I have above.