Today's Stats:

Non-stat Breakfast

Breakfast:  1230  & 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: 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	2 hours before and after iron supplement: 1330	to address UTI
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

    Everything seems to be fine. She was in the bathroom when I entered the driveway from my shopping trip. Appetite good, but a little slow and "cold" this morning. No fever. I checked her temperature: 99.1 arterial.
    Although I was curious, I held off. No poking, no strapping, no stats. NO PLAY-YING!

Non-stat Lunch

Lunch:  1750  & Meds What she ate:  8 oz artificially sweetened, lot fat lemon yoghurt 4 ;imiento stuffed olives 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 little different lunch, today. Totay we initiated yoghurt. She loved it. We'll probably be eating yoghurt pretty regularly, now, for lunch.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2015     Reading:  113

Blood Pressure:     Time:  2020     BP:  131/68     Pulse:  59

Dinner:  2045  & Meds What she ate:  4 baby back ribs with doctored hoisin barbeque sauce 1 small baked potato with margarine, sour cream, sald and pepper a cabbage based dinner salad with carrot, Bermuda onion, green pepper, radishes and chopped pimiento stuff olives
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

    Everything thing is fine, nothing to report.