Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Breakfast:  1300  & 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: 1200	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
acetaminophen/1000 mg	2 500 mg tabs with breakfast	asked for it because of stiffness and aching
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
metaclopramide/5 mg	½ hour before meal	to prevent nausea
Augmentin/437 mg	2 hours after iron with yoghurt: 1400	for continuing UTI

    I am not a happy camper with this continuing UTI. Blood in her urine this morning. Clear as, well, blood. After I noticed it I scrubbed her toilet once again, reaching way down into the pipe. I fed her lots of fluids. Had her pee again a half hour before I was planning on giving her the Augmentin (we have 3 doses left). Just to make sure. Yes, she was bleeding. Not rectally. I checked for that. Not a lot, either. So, maybe I was right. Maybe, throughout the course of the Levaquin, at 250 mg/day, she was continuing to bleed. Maybe it wasn't my imagination. Nor left over cleaning fluids in the toilet.
    I know it seems odd that I would need time to think about this, now. But, I do. The Augmentin is giving me this time.
    Her appetite remains hearty. She, again, asked for two eggs, this morning. Ate the mid-'morning' yoghurt without a problem. And, believe me, she'll speak up when she's not hungry. Thus, I had no reason to believe that she would develop nausea except that when I started her on Augmentin, before, at about half the dose I gave her today, she had one episode of nausea on an empty stomach. So, I am extra careful with it.
    I'll probably call the FNP tomorrow with a plan, which she will probably approve, and make the appropriate calls, etc.

Dinner
    That's right, no lunch stats. I was asleep. I noticed that she'd had yoghurt and bread and butter pickles out of the jar while I'd been sleeping. She didn't have much to drink. No lunch time pills.
    When I awoke at a little after 2000, I realized I'd better get hopping, so decided not to worry about stats and get us some fast food, always a treat for my mother since we rarely have it, anymore.

Dinner:  2100  & Meds What she ate:  1 Jack In The Box Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger & 1 medium order of Natural Cut Fries with lots of ketchup
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
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

    I'll tell you what, it's a good thing I set up pills the day ahead. I'd forgotten that they were ready to go and as I was coming back from picking up food, I thought, oh, well, I think tonight it's okay if she only has her prescription meds and iron. But they were all ready in the jar.
    It would have been interesting to see what her blood sugar was, having awakened from her nap on her own, dressed, hydrated (well, relatively speaking) and fed herself on her own. When I awoke she was watching TV and smacking her lips. She's fine, I know, for a few hours on her own. There isn't really any way she can get into trouble, here, even in the food line.