Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Breakfast:  1125  & Meds What she ate:  2 hard over egg, heavily peppered 2 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: 1025	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/500 mg	2 tablets 2 hours after iron ingestion: 1225	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with antibiotics	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    I joked to my mother this morning, "My goodness, you're not only going to receive the 'I Started Eating Breakfast Before Noon' award, today, you'll also qualify for the 'I Finished Breakfast Before Noon" award."
    She smirked. That cute little smirk she has that says, "Ha, ha, very funny," only more smartly than words.
    Appetite remains hearty. I'm encouraged.
    And, yes, even though I am publishing this post a bit early, she will receive her antibiotics on time.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1849     Reading:  106

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1851     BP:  126/59     Pulse:  59

Dinner:  1915  & Meds What she ate:  2 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz sugar cured lean ham 1 slice toasted oat bran bread with 1.5 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/4 tsp cinnamon
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
tolterodine tartrate ER/4 mg	Once per day	4 week trial to see if it inhibits her incontinence

    We both slept most of the afternoon, right through lunch. We awoke about the same time and Mom suggested that "it seemed as though we should be having breakfast", so that's what we did, with ham. Her favorite meal of the day.
    Nothing strange or unusual, except that it's been a very slow, two meal day for both of us.