Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1246     Reading:  116

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1340  & Meds What she ate:  2 hard over egg, heavily peppered 4 oz slice roasted, sugar cured lean ham 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: 1250	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 hours after ingestion of iron: 1450	to address UTI
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

    Surely, you must have known, after yesterday's blood sugar melee, I was bound to measure it this morning. So, now I know it takes her about 24 hours to recover from pancakes and maple syrup when she has them in the morning.
    It will be interesting, then, to see how long it takes her blood sugar level to recover from pancakes and maple syrup when she has them in the evening.
    Checking this occurred to me, this "morning", when Mom finally awoke, because these were the first words out of her mouth: "Mmmmm...I was dreaming of pancakes! Mmmm! Let's have pancakes for breakfast!"
    I laughed. "That wasn't a dream, Mom, you had pancakes yesterday for breakfast, blueberry pancakes..."
    "Oh, yes! Weren't those good! No reason why we shouldn't have them two days in a row."
    Well, it's not renal suicide, but, considering what her blood sugar was last night, it's not the best idea in the world, either. Still...it is wonderful to see her zestily enjoying a meal the way she did those pancakes (although she is good at enjoying eating, now)..."I'll tell you what. How about pancakes and sausage for dinner tonight, and we can see if your body does better at working off the sugar when you're asleep."
    I know, that sounds clearly contradictory, since exercise lowers blood sugar, movement of any kind lowers blood sugar, not just over time but within hours. But, you know, her blood sugar levels even out very nicely overnight when we have Just Desserts dinner. And, what is pancakes w/maple syrup but a Just Desserts dinner. So, since she wants pancakes again, and I'm going to make them blueberry, again, this will give us a chance to see if her body handles pancakes for dinner better than pancakes for breakfast.

BM Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1940     Reading:  140

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1943     BP:  115/56     Pulse:  62

Dinner:  2000  & Meds What she ate:  3 5" blueberry pancakes and one 4 oz. piece sage sausage
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin when used with glipizide
Niferex-150 (mg elemental iron)	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

    My mother feels as though she's made it to high heaven: Pancakes two days in a row! Her blood sugar was up, some, this evening, but she had 8 oz of yoghurt and just before she napped, at about 1645, to soften the blow of 2 500 mg tablets of acetaminophen I gave her, and 11.5 oz V-8 juice after she napped, before she was hungry enough for dinner.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred after dinner, before our after dinner movie, about 2100: medium-low volume, although good, considering that she's practically eliminating every day; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.